8Trip Funding, Investors & Competitors

Booking is the world's largest online travel agency by sales, offering booking and payment services for hotel and alternative accommodation rooms, airlines, rental cars, restaurants, cruises, experiences, and other vacation packages. The company operates several branded travel booking sites, including Booking.com, Agoda, OpenTable, Rentalcars.com, Kayak, and Momondo. Transaction fees for online bookings account for the bulk of revenue and profits.

Airbnb is the world’s largest online alternative accommodation travel agency; it also offers booking services for boutique hotels, experiences, and hotel-like services. Airbnb’s platform offers over 9 million active accommodation listings. Listings from the company’s 5 million-plus hosts are spread over almost every country in the world. In 2025, 42% of revenue was from North America, 39% from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, 10% from Latin America, and 9% from Asia-Pacific. Transaction fees for online bookings account for all its revenue.

Expedia is the world's second-largest online travel agency by bookings, offering services for lodging (80% of total 2024 sales), air tickets (3%), rental cars, cruises, in-destination, and other (10%), and advertising revenue (7%). Expedia operates a number of branded travel booking sites, but its three core online travel agency brands are Expedia, Hotels.com, and alternative accommodations brand Vrbo. It also has a metasearch brand, Trivago. Transaction fees for online bookings account for the bulk of sales and profits.

Founded in 1987 by four major European airline carriers (Air France, Lufthansa, Iberia, and SAS), Amadeus became the world’s second global distribution system operator, or GDS, after Sabre’s development in the 1960s and 1970s. Today, among the top three GDS operators that control nearly 100% of industry sales, Amadeus' 40%-plus market share ranks as the largest. Overall, Amadeus’ GDS segment represented 48% of total in 2024. Moreover, the company has an expanding IT solutions division (52% of 2024 revenue) that addresses the airline, airport, rail, hotel, and travel agency markets. Transaction fees, which are tied to volume and not price, account for the bulk of consolidated sales and profits.

Trip.com is the largest online travel agent in China and is positioned to benefit from the country's rising demand for higher-margin outbound travel as passport penetration is only 12% in China. The company generated about 79% of sales from accommodation reservations and transportation ticketing in 2024. The rest of revenue comes from package tours and corporate travel. Before the pandemic in 2019, the company generated 25% of revenue from international travel, which is important to its margin expansion. Most of sales come from its domestic platform, but the company is expanding its overseas business. The competes in a crowded OTA industry in China, including Meituan, Alibaba-backed Fliggy, Tongcheng, and Qunar. The company was founded in 1999 and listed on the Nasdaq in December 2003.

Yanolja is a Seoul-headquartered online travel platform specializing in bookings for hotels, resorts, flights, activities, and transportation across Asia, North America, and Europe. Founded in 2005, it connects travelers with over two million properties worldwide through its app and website, emphasizing markets like South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, and Japan. The company partners with global chains such as Marriott and Hilton alongside local accommodations. Through its Yanolja Cloud division, it supplies property management systems, revenue tools, and digital marketing services to thousands of hospitality businesses in 20 countries.

Koubei is a Shanghai-based local services platform under Alibaba Group. Launched in 2004, it aggregates information on dining, entertainment, real estate rentals, job listings, and travel across major Chinese cities. Key features include merchant reviews, maps, and transaction services for restaurants and housing.

Hopper is a Montréal-headquartered mobile travel application leveraging predictive algorithms for flight and hotel price forecasts. Launched in 2007, the app analyzes historical data to advise optimal booking times and sends price drop notifications. Available on iOS and Android, it partners with airlines and hotels for exclusive deals serving millions of global users.

Global Business Travel Group Inc operates as a business-to-business travel platform. It is engaged in providing software and services to manage travel, expenses, and meetings and events for companies of all sizes. The company is engaged in building the marketplace in B2B travel to deliver unrivaled choice, value, and experiences. It also provides business travel solutions, simplified travel management, and business consulting services. Further, The company generates revenue in two ways that involves fees and other revenues relating to processing and servicing travel transactions received from clients and travel suppliers and revenues for the provision of products and professional services not directly related to transactions received from clients, travel suppliers and Network Partners.

MakeMyTrip Ltd is an online travel company, which provides online booking solutions for day-to-day travel needs. The company's operating segment includes Air ticketing; Hotels and packages; Bus ticketing and Others. It generates maximum revenue from the Hotels and packages segment. The Hotels and packages segments include internet-based platforms, call-centers, and branch offices, which provide holiday packages and hotel reservations. Its Air ticketing segment includes internet-based platforms, provides the facility to book domestic and international air tickets. Geographically, it derives a majority of revenue from India and also has a presence in the United States; South East Asia; Europe, and other countries.

Travel+Leisure Co is a membership and leisure travel company. It provides hospitality services and travel products. The company operates in the segments of Vacation Ownership, which is the key revenue-driving segment, develops, markets and sells vacation ownership interests (VOIs) to individual consumers, provides consumer financing in connection with the sale of VOIs, and provides property management services at resorts, and Travel and Membership which operates a variety of travel businesses, including two vacation exchange brands, Vacation Ownership and Travel and Membership The majority of the revenue is earned from the United States.

OYO is a Gurgaon-headquartered hospitality chain operating leased hotels, guesthouses, and vacation rentals across India, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the US. It equips properties with standardized amenities, dynamic pricing tools, and a booking app serving budget travelers seeking verified accommodations in over 80 countries.

Tongcheng Travel is an online travel agency platform that provides booking services for hotel and ticketing in China. It generated 84% of its revenue from accommodation reservations and transportation ticketing in 2023. The rest came from advertising and in-house software sales. The platform provides both online and offline services in the form of call centers and travel kiosks. Tongcheng Travel was formed from the merger of Tongcheng Network and eLong in 2018. It is currently 21.38% owned by Tencent and 20.86% by Trip.com. Tongcheng targets lower-tier cities and as of 2021, 86.7% of its users are from non-first-tier cities in China and 61.7% of new paying users on Weixin were from Tier 3 or below cities in China. The company competes with Trip.com, Alibaba's Fliggy, and Meituan.

FlixBus is the intercity bus brand of FlixMobility, a Germany-based transport company that also operates FlixTrain rail services and, through the 2021 acquisition of Greyhound Lines, long-distance bus routes across North America. The company uses an asset-light, technology-driven network model, partnering with local bus operators rather than owning its fleet, to offer affordable intercity travel across more than 2,500 destinations in dozens of countries. FlixMobility carried 62 million passengers in 2019 before expanding further through acquisitions including Turkey's Kamil Koç and airport-transfer operator Flibco.

LY.com, formerly known as 17U.com and Tongcheng, is a Chinese online travel platform offering hotel, flight, train, and cruise bookings alongside sightseeing tickets and group-buying travel deals. Launched in 2004, it built an early lead in China's sightseeing-ticket and weekend-getaway segments before expanding into broader travel booking across roughly 200 cities. The company has counted Ctrip, Tencent, and Dalian Wanda Group among its major shareholders.

Traveloka is an Indonesia-headquartered online travel aggregator operating in six Southeast Asian countries, primarily as a flight search engine for domestic and regional routes. The platform enables bookings for flights, hotels, activities, and ground transport, with expansions into fintech and lifestyle services. Traveloka partners with local airlines and expands market impact through innovative travel products.

Engine is a San Francisco-headquartered travel management platform for business trips, integrating with 95 percent of US airlines, hotels, and car rentals. Launched in 2021 and backed by Blackstone and Permira, it offers single-invoice billing, real-time modifications without fees, and spend analytics dashboards. Engine serves mid-market companies like Rippling and Notion, reducing travel costs by 25 percent through negotiated rates and policy enforcement.

BlaBlaCar is a Paris-headquartered carpooling platform operating in 22 countries including Europe, Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, and India. It links drivers with passengers for long-distance trips, enabling cost-sharing through its website and mobile apps. Features include verified profiles, declared identities, and chatty level indicators from Bla to BlaBlaBla to build trust. Backed by investors such as Accel Partners, Insight Ventures, Index Ventures, Lead Edge Capital, Baring Vostok, and ISAI, the service maintains offices in over a dozen countries worldwide.