Business Description

Overview Expedia Group, Inc. is the global travel marketplace with one purpose: to help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. We connect travelers, partners, and advertisers throughout our trusted brands, leading technology, and rich first-party data, delivering predictive, personalized experiences that shape the future of travel. We leverage our supply portfolio, platform and technology capabilities across an extensive portfolio of consumer brands, and provide solutions to our business partners, to empower travelers to efficiently research, plan, book and experience travel. At the end of 2025, we had approximately 3.6 million lodging properties available, including approximately 2.4 million online bookable alternative accommodations through Vrbo, approximately 1.2 million hotels and alternative accommodations through our other brands, over 500 airlines, packages, rental cars, cruises, insurance, as well as activities and experiences. Travel suppliers distribute and market products via our apps, desktop and mobile offerings, as well as through alternative distribution channels, our business partnerships and our call centers in order to reach our extensive global audience. In addition, our advertising and media businesses help other businesses, primarily travel providers, reach a large multi-platform audience of travelers around the globe. Historical Development Nearly 30 years ago, we began operations as one of the first online travel agencies (“OTAs”) and played a significant role in revolutionizing and democratizing travel, by empowering customers to manage their own travel plans. We did so by building and then leveraging proprietary technology to connect partners and their respective inventory to those travelers, while unlocking the marketplace for travel to other businesses as well. Since then, the travel industry has experienced significant transformation, including the material shift from offline to online travel booking. This transformation led to many years of exciting growth for OTAs along with increased