Booking Holdings
Booking Holdings
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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 .