Booking Holdings

Booking Holdings
legal form	Incorporated
ISIN	US09857L1089
founding	1997
Seat	Norwalk , Connecticut , United States;
Number of employees	26,400 (2019)
sales	15.1 billion US dollars (2019)
Branch	Tourism
Website	www.bookingholdings.com

The Booking Holdings Inc. is an American company headquartered in Norwalk in the US state of Connecticut . The company operates online travel portals and operated under The Priceline Group until February 2018 .

Products

Booking Holdings owns eight brands:

Agoda based in Singapore
Booking.com based in Amsterdam in the Netherlands
Cheapflights based in London , UK
KAYAK based in Stamford in Connecticut , United States
momondo is based in Copenhagen , Denmark
OpenTable from San Francisco in California , USA
Priceline.com based in Norwalk , Connecticut, USA
Rentalcars.com based in Manchester , United Kingdom.

history

In 1997 Jay Walker published Priceline.com.
In 1999 it went public as The Priceline Group (abbreviation: PCLN).
In 2000, founder Jay Walker left the governing body.
In 2001, Priceline.com started making profits.
In 2004 ActiveHotels.com was taken over.
In 2005 Booking.com was acquired and combined with ActiveHotels.com.
In 2007, the Asian hotel search engine Agoda.com was taken over.
In 2009 the company was included in the S&P 500 .
In 2010, Priceline became the world's largest hotel search engine.
In 2010 the rental car portal known today as Rentalcars.com was acquired as TravelJigsaw.
In 2013 the travel portal Kayak was taken over.
In 2014 the name was changed to The Priceline Group and the restaurant portal OpenTable was taken over.
In 2017, a court in Turkey prohibited Booking.com from any brokerage activity.
2018 Change of name to Booking Holdings (code: BKNG).

Web links

Commons : Booking Holdings - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Booking Holdings Official Website
Official website of Agoda.com (multilingual)
Official website of Booking.com (multilingual)
Official website of Cheapflights.com (English)
Official KAYAK website (German and English)

Momondo official website (multilingual)

Official OpenTable website (multilingual)

Rentalcars.com official website (multilingual)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b The Pricline Group: History. Retrieved June 3, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b Booking Holdings Inc .: Annual Report 2019. (PDF; 1.3 MB) Retrieved on April 23, 2020 (English).
↑ Series: The Most Expensive Stocks in the World: Booking Holdings - The stock whose investors benefit from wanderlust. In: Handelsblatt. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b it-times: Priceline.com wants to start again with Kayak. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
↑ Priceline.com acquires asian online hotel reservation service co Agoda. In: reuters.com. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b it-times: Priceline is buying into a new market segment. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
↑ http://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Tuerkische-Richter-blocken-Booking-com-article19772004.html
↑ The Priceline Group becomes Booking Holdings. In: BizTravel. FVW Medien GmbH , February 22, 2018, accessed on March 9, 2018 .

[Geschichte-1] The Pricline Group: History. Retrieved June 3, 2017 .

[annualreport19-2] Booking Holdings Inc .: Annual Report 2019. (PDF; 1.3 MB) Retrieved on April 23, 2020 (English).

[3] Series: The Most Expensive Stocks in the World: Booking Holdings - The stock whose investors benefit from wanderlust. In: Handelsblatt. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .

[:0-4] t-times: Priceline.com wants to start again with Kayak. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .

[5] Priceline.com acquires asian online hotel reservation service co Agoda. In: reuters.com. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .

[:1-6] t-times: Priceline is buying into a new market segment. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .

[7] ttp://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Tuerkische-Richter-blocken-Booking-com-article19772004.html

[8] The Priceline Group becomes Booking Holdings. In: BizTravel. FVW Medien GmbH , February 22, 2018, accessed on March 9, 2018 .