Accolades
- Expedia, Inc. Ranks High on Fortune Most Admired List — For 2008, Expedia is ranked #3 in the Internet Service/Retailing industry, and is included in the list of most-admired companies in the state of Washington.
- Expedia, Inc. Named One of “America’s Best Managed Companies” by Forbes — Forbes’ list of the 400 best managed, public American companies with $1 billion or more in revenues includes Expedia for the first time. Read more here and see the Expedia overview here.
- hotels.com Named the Best by Condé Nast — Condé Nast Traveler magazine named hotels.com the Best Site for Booking Hotels in the United States and the Best Site for Booking Hotels in Europe. The publication recognized hotels.com as a "Condé Nast Favorite" for offering the "best combination of rates and functionality of any site we tested."
- TripAdvisor Named a Top Travel Innovation by Budget Travel Magazine — TripAdvisor® ranked third in the list of “The 10 Best Travel Innovations of the Past 10 Years” by Budget Travel magazine.
- Hotwire Rated “Best Independent Travel Site” — For the third consecutive year, Hotwire.com® ranked highest among independent travel Web sites in satisfying customers who book their reservations online according to the 2008 Independent Travel Web Site Study by J.D. Power and Associates.
- Two Employees Honored by ForbesLife Executive Woman— Christine Petersen, chief marketing officer at TripAdvisor®, and Carolyn Spencer Brown, editor-in-chief of Cruise Critic™, were each named one of ForbesLife Executive Woman’s 25 Most Influential Women in Travel.
- Seattle Times Names Expedia Among Top 100 Companies — In June 2008, the Seattle Times rated Expedia among the best-performing companies in the Pacific Northwest.
- TripAdvisor Named “Best Hotel Portal” by New York Post — TripAdvisor was named “Best Hotel Portal” and referred to as “our favorite source for candid hotel info” in a 2008 roundup published in the New York Post.
- TripAdvisor Reaches 20 Million Traveler Reviews — TripAdvisor® now features 20 million reviews and opinions, up from 10 million in June 2007. The TripAdvisor-branded sites also reached more than 25 million unique monthly visitors in the past year. Read more.
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