You Are Probably Booking from One of Them!

These are the summary of who owns who in the online travel booking world

Ever wonder why are there so many online booking websites? Don't know where to start from?

Actually, most of the brands falls under these 3 main Online Travel Agency. Below are the simple summary of the most common websites that you most probably encounter, and ways for you to make better choices:

Booking Holdings is rated as the world's leading online travel agency in 2018 by the World Travel Awards.

The main companies under Booking Holdings are Booking.com, Agoda, priceline.com, Kayak, OpenTable, HotelsCombined, and Rentalcars.com.

They focuses much more on single bookings in a single field (book only for hotels, or air tickets, or rental cars etc.).

If you want to book only for a hotel, they provided a large variety of options. However, if you want to book hotels with flight tickets (so call 'bundles'), their options are not that attractive as the prices in bundles may be expensive and limited.

Another great online travel agency is the Expedia Group. It has been awarded as the world's leading hotel booking website in 2018.

Expedia Group provides services that opposes Booking Holdings. Rather than single bookings, Expedia Group targets on customers who wants them to handle everything throughout the trip. This means that travelers have more options in booking in bundles (e.g. hotel + flight ticket + rental cars, etc.).

The group has many subsidiaries, including Expedia.com, hotels.com, travelocity, trivago, homeaway, orbitz and many more renowned companies.

The most well-known travel review website, Tripadvisor, has also joined the online travelling world to get a share out of it.

If you are unfamiliar with a destination or lazy to plan out your trip, TripAdvisor is the best place for you to find out the ins-and-outs of a place.

Travelers all around the world are gathered to provide their reviews regarding a destination. They also provide useful travel tips that you may find it handy during your tour. You can definitely make your bookings via the site, and it provides a wide range of choices as well as it compares prices from other Online Travel Agencies.

Tripadvisor has several subsidiaries, which are Viator, Onetime, SeatGuru, BookingBuddy and many more websites that provides conveniences for travelers to make bookings.