FAQs

Absolutely! We'd be delighted to showcase your property to the millions of travellers who regularly book their trips through our sites.

Thankfully, no! You do not need to sign up for all Expedia Group brands separately. When you partner with us, your listing will appear on some of the world’s leading online travel brands, including Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Travelocity, Orbitz, Wotif and more. Collectively, our sites cover virtually every aspect of researching, planning and booking travel. Leisure and business travellers with various tastes and budgets rely on our sites for all their travel needs.

Our easy-to-use platform, Partner Central, will be the primary location for managing reservations, loading inventory, changing rates, and keeping your listing up to date. Many partners opt to use a connectivity provider to link our systems and automatically perform daily tasks. They log in to Partner Central to leverage our more advanced tools including competitive set analysis, real-time market pricing, and other marketing programs. If you have any problems, our local teams are ready to help.

We're one of the world’s leading travel marketplaces, with an extensive brand portfolio that includes both globally recognized and locally relevant travel brands, including Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, and more.

Yes. Expedia Group partners have access to a suite of tools and data insights that help you develop and execute a profitable revenue management strategy. We're constantly innovating and publishing best-practice guidance to support your success.

An online travel agency (OTA) is a key part of your distribution strategy. If your goal is to reach more travellers and attract those who will be happiest at your property, an OTA can help.

At Expedia Group the breadth of our travel supply attracts travellers who are researching, planning, and booking travel. They often plan far in advance, stay longer at your property, and spend more. In addition to helping you fill your rooms, we provide tools and market insights to help you provide outstanding guest experiences and grow your business.

To help you choose a solution that will best meet your needs, we’ve identified the top-performing connectivity providers on Expedia Group through our Connectivity Partner Program awarding top partners with an Elite or Preferred designation.

Elite Connectivity Partners: An exclusive group of top-performing Expedia Group connectivity partners who offer the highest-quality connection to Expedia Group and comprehensive functionality.

As an Expedia Group partner, you choose how you want to accept guest payments. Options include leveraging our secure payment processing to have travellers pay online when they book and charging an Expedia Group issued virtual credit card for payment at checkout. You can also have guests pay you directly at check-out and compensate Expedia Group.

To appeal to the broadest number of travellers, you can choose to offer both options and let the guests decide what's best for them.

Compensation for reservations varies around the globe and we'll share the percentage for your market as part of the contracting process.

In addition to providing an easy-to-use and secure experience for travellers to book your rooms, Expedia Group invests heavily in advertising, digital marketing, and social media promotion to attract consumers from around the world to your market and individual property.

We're constantly mining our data for insights and emerging travel trends so we can both innovate and develop the best set of free and robust tools that enable you to grow your business. We also operate traveller and partner support centers to help solve the sticky logistical issues that inevitably arise when people set out to explore the world.