Confidently fill your rooms so you can do more of what you love — creating exceptional experiences for everyone.
Connect with your ideal guests. Focus on what you do best.
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Power global travel for everyone, everywhere
We help connect travelers — with all purposes, tastes, and budgets — with the perfect place to stay.
Reach more travelers as travel returns
All over the world, the joy of travel draws people to our marketplace. Our convenient platform and wide network of listings can help travelers book the perfect place to stay — with confidence.
Attract your ideal 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. Which type of traveler suits your property best? We’re here to help you connect!
Manage your property with ease
We can’t add hours to the day, but we can make property management easier. These tools and key insights — from market pricing to managing reviews — can help guide decisions, rebuild business, and free up time to create great guest experiences.
And be in good company
Planes, trains, cars, cruises, and activities. Travelers can find everything they may need in our marketplace. And when they can book multiple parts of their trip at once, they often book earlier, reserve longer stays, and cancel less frequently.
Join us
Through our family of websites, travelers connect with the world’s best travel partners. This is our marketplace — a thriving community, passionate about the power of travel. Join us!
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!
Yes. Learn more about how Expedia Group benefits partners like you by clicking your language below:
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.
We're one of the world’s leading travel marketplaces, with an extensive brand portfolio that includes both globally recognized and locally relevant travel brands, including Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, and more. Learn more in our About Us section.
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.
Compensation for reservations varies around the globe and we'll share the percentage for your market as part of the contracting process.
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.
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.
With millions of properties across the globe, our success depends on our partners’ success. A key part of ensuring that success is keeping communication lines open and responding swiftly to our partners’ concerns and complaints. See our 2023 EU Platform to Business Complaints report for more information.