Listing your property is fast, easy and free. We’ll help you target the guests you want, sharing market insights and tools so you can confidently make decisions to grow your business. Like you, we’re passionate about travel and the human connections that bring the world closer together.

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Power more travel for everyone, everywhere

Serving travelers with every purpose, taste and budget, we help connect them with the perfect place to stay.

Access millions of travelers every day

From around the world, the joy of travel draws people to our marketplace. As they research and plan, we help them narrow their search and share the photos and information they need to confidently book the perfect place to stay.

Engage your best guests

Target long-range planners or last-minute bookers. Weekend get-awayers or week-long stayers. Business travelers or leisure seekers. Families or solo adventurers. What guests are best for you? We’re here to help you connect.

Do more of what you love

We can’t add hours to the day, but we’ll share tools and key insights—from real-time market pricing to common themes in your reviews—so you can make faster, better decisions, grow your business and spend more time delighting guests.

And be in good company

Planes, trains, cars, cruises and activities. Travelers find the choice they crave in our marketplace. And when they book more than just one part of their trip, we find it results in earlier room bookings, longer stays and fewer cancellations.

How it works

1. Say hello!

5 minutes on average

Listing is free, and it’s easy to get started. Just tell us about your property (Is it an inn? A vacation home?) and we’ll set up your account.

2. Sign up

5 minutes on average

Log in and let’s take care of business — review standard business terms and decide how you want to accept payments. More detail is in the FAQs below.

3. Get ready

20-30 minutes on average

It’s time to set expectations for guests. Your listing shares what makes your property special, your policies, availability and rates. Travelers like detail and love photos — capture more business by including lots of both.

4. Greet guests

0-15 minutes on average

That’s it! Once your listing is live, travelers planning holidays around the world can book your rooms. You can message them to ask questions and share more information before they arrive.

Be ready for reservations

Capturing imaginations and setting expectations ensures you book rooms as travel picks up. We’ll help you craft a powerful listing, control availability, and fine-tune your performance.

Target travelers

When there’s a specific objective—fill last minute vacancies or encourage longer stays—target travelers with similar desires. We offer marketing programs for every need, budget and timeline, so you get the results you need.

Price with confidence

Bold pricing moves or small rate adjustments are easier with real-time market data at your fingertips. We provide simple tools that make implementing changes fast and easy.

Manage reviews

When travelers have infinite choices, great reviews can sway their decision. Encourage positive reviews by messaging guests before they arrive, anticipating needs, and confirming they’re happy during their stay. 

FAQs

Click the "List your property" button in the main menu to start the quick and easy process. When it's time to create your property listing, be as detailed as possible to attract the right guests for you. Click here to see how it works.

As travel restrictions lift, we anticipate people will be eager to reschedule missed holidays and plan new adventures. Millions will use our sites to research, plan and book their flights, stays, cars, cruises and activities. To help you rebound, we have tools to help you attract guests and insights to help you set competitive rates and fill your rooms. 

 

We’ll continue to listen to our partners, adapting and crafting programs to accelerate their recovery. Additionally, we’ll draw on our experience, gained over more than twenty years, helping partners rebuild and thrive after the devastating impact of natural disaster, disease, and unforeseen tragedies. Together, we will foster the industry’s inherent resilience. 

Thankfully, no! You do not need to sign up for all Expedia Group brands separately. When you partner with us, your listing will appear on some of the world’s leading online travel brands, including Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Travelocity, Orbitz, Wotif and more. Collectively, our sites cover virtually every aspect of researching, planning and booking travel. Leisure and business travelers with various tastes and budgets rely on our sites for all their travel needs.

Absolutely! We'd be delighted to showcase your property to the millions of travelers who regularly book their trips through our sites.

Yes. A two-way connection between our systems makes it easy to keep your rates, availability and reservations automatically up to date.

If you don’t have a connectivity channel manager, and you’re a partner, you can sign into Partner Central and explore our Global Connectivity Guide to help you identify the channel partners that specifically support your market. If you're not a partner yet, sign up for free today!

It's okay. We'll automatically save the information you've entered, and you can come back and finish whenever you're ready. If you have trouble, we'll reach out to help.

Photos ignite the imaginations of travelers, allowing them to visualize staying with you on their next trip. We recommend including four photos per room type (including the bathroom), and one of each of the key areas (amenities) that make your property special (the common spaces, pools, dining, etc.). They don’t need to be professional photos—well-lit smartphone photos will work, but they should have a minimum resolution of 1,000 pixels. Review our photo guide for more detail.

An online travel agency (OTA) is a consumer travel website specializing in the sale of travel products, including flights, hotels, car rentals, cruises, vacation rentals, activities and more.

Expedia Group operates several OTAs, including Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, Wotif and more. We additionally provide tools, capabilities and insights for our travel suppliers, helping them compete and build profitable businesses.

No, you don't need to work with a connectivity provider or have a connectivity solution in place to effectively list your property with Expedia Group. However, having worked with over a million properties globally, we know manually managing your inventory can take up a lot of time. A connectivity channel provider creates a two-way flow of information between your systems and ours, so reservations, rates and availability update automatically. Displaying accurate inventory maximizes the impact of your OTA listing and reduces the risk of overbooking.

Our easy-to-use platform, Partner Central, will be the primary location for managing reservations, loading inventory, changing rates, and keeping your listing up to date. Many partners opt to use a connectivity provider to link our systems and automatically perform daily tasks. They log in to Partner Central to leverage our more advanced tools including competitive set analysis, real-time market pricing, and other marketing programs. If you have any problems, our local teams are ready to help.

Yes. Expedia Group partners have access to a suite of tools and data insights that help you develop and execute a profitable revenue management strategy. We're constantly innovating and publishing best-practice guidance to support your success.

An online travel agency (OTA) is a key part of your distribution strategy. If your goal is to reach more travelers and attract those who will be happiest at your property, an OTA can help.

At Expedia Group the breadth of our travel supply attracts travelers who are researching, planning, and booking travel. They often plan far in advance, stay longer at your property, and spend more. In addition to helping you fill your rooms, we provide tools and market insights to help you provide outstanding guest experiences and grow your business.

No. To keep your workload to a minimum, we automatically email the guest to confirm the reservation.

You can easily cancel a reservation on behalf of a guest in Partner Central. If a cancellation fee applies, you can charge the linked Expedia Virtual Card on the cancellation date.

Yes. The Messages tool in Partner Central allows communication with guests before they arrive and we're happy to include check-in instructions with your property listing. 

As an Expedia Group partner, you choose how you want to accept guest payments. Options include leveraging our secure payment processing to have travelers pay online when they book and charging an Expedia Group issued virtual credit card for payment at checkout. You can also have guests pay you directly at check-out and compensate Expedia Group.

To appeal to the broadest number of travelers, you can choose to offer both options and let the guests decide what's best for them.

Simply put, Hotel Collect allows you to accept payment directly from travelers at check out and then compensate us. Expedia Collect allows travelers to pay online when they book and at check-out, you charge us for remittance. Expedia Traveler Preference lets you accept both types of payment, allowing guests to decide what's best for them.

Learn more about Expedia Traveler Preference here.

It isn't a problem if your property doesn't accept credit cards. We'll make sure your listing communicates how you accept payment (cash, check, credit card, etc.) so travelers are prepared when they arrive. We'll confirm with you in a call to welcome you to the Expedia Group family.

Compensation for reservations varies around the globe and we'll share the percentage for your market as part of the contracting process.

In addition to providing an easy-to-use and secure experience for travelers to book your rooms, Expedia Group invests heavily in advertising, digital marketing, and social media promotion to attract consumers from around the world to your market and individual property.

We're constantly mining our data for insights and emerging travel trends so we can both innovate and develop the best set of free and robust tools that enable you to grow your business. We also operate traveler and partner support centers to help solve the sticky logistical issues that inevitably arise when people set out to explore the world.