Trip.com

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Trip.com
Company type Subsidiary
Industry IT Travel agency
FoundedJune 1999;25 years ago (1999-06)
Area served
Worldwide
Number of employees
45,000
Website 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]

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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).

History

The original business, built by entrepreneurs Travis Katz and Ori Zaltzman, was a travel booking site that featured user-generated content and "predictive intelligence-based technology." In October 2017, Trip.com was acquired by Chinese travel company Ctrip and became that company's flagship brand outside of China. At the time of acquisition, CTrip reported Trip.com had more than 60 million users. [5] The price of the deal was not disclosed. The Palo Alto–based startup had raised $39 million in funding. Expedia, Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures were among the investors in the company, which was founded in 2010. [6]

Brand history

Prior to its acquisition by the Trip.com Group in 2017, the Trip.com brand had changed hands several times. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ O'Neill, Sean (19 November 2017). "Ctrip Relaunches Trip.com as Its English Language Travel Agency Brand". Skift .
  2. ↑ Schaal, Dennis (13 March 2011). "CEO Interview: Ctrip's Strategic Threat to Expedia, Priceline and Everyone Else". Skift .
  3. ↑ "Trip.com: About Us".
  4. 1 2 O'Neill, Sean (31 March 2020). "Trip.com About Us". Skift .
  5. ↑ "CTrip Group snaps up travel search startup Trip.com". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  6. ↑ "Ctrip Buys Trip.com for Skyscanner to Enhance Local Recommendations". Skift. 2017-11-01. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  7. ↑ O'Neill, Sean (31 March 2020). "Trip.com's Nearly Quarter Century Odyssey as a Can't Lose Travel Domain, Right?". Skift .
  8. ↑ "Ctrip relaunches Trip.com as its English language travel agency brand". Skift . November 1, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Ctrip partners with Korean National Rail Operator Korail" (Press release). PR Newswire. February 8, 2018.
  10. ↑ "Trip.com signs strategic agreement with Hotel Shilla (Hotel Shilla Co., Ltd)" (Press release). Globe Newswire. July 9, 2019.
  11. ↑ "Ctrip Launches International Car Rental Service on Trip.com" (Press release). PR Newswire. 5 March 2018.
  12. ↑ "Trip.com Hong Kong Launches Airport Transfer Car Service" (Press release). PR Newswire. 5 March 2018.
  13. ↑ "Trip.com rolls out overseas car rentals in four major language markets" (Press release). PR Newswire. March 8, 2018.
  14. ↑ "Overseas car rentals experience boom on Trip.com over winter holiday season" (Press release). PR Newswire. March 8, 2018.
  15. ↑ "Trip.com partners Singapore Tourism Board on Destination Marketing plans" (Press release). Trip.com. September 11, 2019.
  16. ↑ "Trip.com hosts 2019 airline partner conference" (Press release). Nasdaq. October 28, 2019.
  17. ↑ "Trip.com Group collaborate with British Airways and Iberia on NDC Standard" (Press release). Nasdaq. January 15, 2020.
  18. ↑ "Trip.com ordered to make exception to privacy policy in lawsuit that could open the door to further legal action". South China Morning Post. 16 July 2021.
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