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Trip.com

Trip.com is a multinational travel service conglomerate with 45,000 employees. It is one of the world's largest online travel agencies with over 400 million users worldwide, and also the parent of Skyscanner. It is headquartered in Singapore.[1][2]

For the parent corporation, see Trip.com Group.

Company type

June 1999 (1999-06)

Worldwide

45,000

The site provides booking services for flights, hotels, trains, car rentals, airport transfers, tours and attraction tickets, and claims to offer more than 1.2 million hotels in 200 countries and regions, as well as over 2 million flight routes connecting more than 5,000 cities. Train tickets for use in the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and Mainland China are also available for purchase on the site.[3]


Trip.com is available in 19 different languages, including English, Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Turkish, Polish, Greek, Indonesian, Malaysian and Thai, with the mobile app also featuring Vietnamese and Filipino.[4] It also provides localized English versions for Australia, Singapore, the United States and Hong Kong.[4] Specifically for the Chinese domestic market, the services are provided by the original and traditional website ctrip.com that is in Chinese (Simplified).

The domain was first purchased in 1996 by Trip Software Systems, and later sold to TheTrip.com founder Antoine Toffa in 1998 for $5,000

In 1999, Galileo International purchased a 19% stake in Toffa’s Trip.com Inc., and in 2000, acquired the remaining stake of Trip.com for $214.4 million in a combination of cash and stock.

In 2001, Cendant acquired Galileo, and combined Trip.com with another acquisition, CheapTickets, to create Trip Network Inc. In 2003, Cendant ceased operating the Trip.com domain.

In 2009, Orbitz Worldwide, a company acquired by Cendant in 2004 for $1.25 billion in cash and later split into a separate publicly traded entity, resumed use of the Trip.com brand.

In 2013, Orbitz ceased operating the Trip.com website.

In 2015, Expedia acquired Orbitz Worldwide, and inherited the Trip.com domain.

In 2016, , a travel booking and research company founded by entrepreneurs Travis Katz and Ori Zaltzman in 2010 acquired the Trip.com brand from Expedia and rebranded the service as Trip.com.

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In 2017, CTrip acquired Trip.com and repositioned the company as an international online travel agency.

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2019 Google Material Design Award: Universality

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