There are hundreds of reputable online travel agencies, including the more well-known ones such as Expedia, Tripadvisor, Priceline, Trivago, Priceline, Booking.com, Hotels.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, Kayak, itravel2000 and FlightNetwork. Among there newer and lesser-known travel booking and review sites are Oyster, Airbnb, CheapOair, Fly.com, Trippy, Tripit, Wanderfly, Hipmunk and others.
With its online network of more than 75 million monthly traveler reviewsand 60 million unique visitors, Tripadvisor.ca provides a comprehensive travel planning experience. It also has a robust flights search engine, hotel compare & check rates search, more than 100,000 vacation rental properties and worldwide restaurant ratings & reviews.Founded in 2004, Trivago is a travel metasearch engine focusing compareing prices for over 730,700 hotels from more than 227 booking sites such as Expedia, Booking.com and Priceline. It has offices in Dusseldorf and Palma and has 49 platforms and 25 languages.
Based in Connecticut, Priceline is a U.S. travel company that offers its web users discounted hotel, car rental and airline tickets. It act as a facilitor or middelman between travellers and suppliers. It owns Booking.com, Rentalcars, Agoda and Kayak, among others, and it is well-known for the succesful marketing campaign using actor William Shatner ( as the 'Priceline Negotiator').
Travelocity is a US-based online travel agency and wholly owned subsidiary of Sabre Holdings Corporation. It is the sixth-largest travel agency in the United States and the second-largest online travel agency and it operates comparable websites in Canada, UK, Germany, France and elsewhere. Travelocity offers a full range of travel services including flights, hotels, cars, rail, cruises, insurance and packages.
iTravel2000.com 'guarantees' the lowest price on Vacations Packages, Flights, Hotels, and Activities, to destinations all over the world. The company was founded in 1994 and is one of Canada’s fastest growing travel retailers employing over 200 people and generating hundreds of online transactions every day.
Flightnetwork.com/ is one of Canada’s top online travel agencies and has been in operation since 1998. It is viewed by many as Expedia’s main competition in Canada. The company allows travel booking online 24/7 and offers deeply discounted airfares, hotels, cruises, car rentals and a great selection of the latest top travel deals.
Expedia.ca/ is a US internet-based travel website based in Bellevue, Washington, with localized sites for 22 countries like the UK, Australia, Germany, France and Canada. It is the parent company to several online brands including Hotels.com, Hotwire.com and Venere. Expedia uses multiple global distribution systems like Amadeus, Sabre, Worldspan, Pegasystems and its own hotel reservation system for contracted, bulk-rate reservations. With Expedia you have full access to flights, hotel, car rental, cruises, vacation packages, insurance, last-minute deals' and 'Visa Central', where you can check your visa requirements to any country in the world.Cheapoair.com/ is a leading provider of airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars and vacation packages through its extensive partnerships with top travel brands and a wide breadth of inventory. The fastest way to compare and book over 450 Airlines' cheap Flights.
Hotels.com/ offers more than 325,000 properties in 60 countries in 19,000 locations - from hotels and B&B's to condos and all-inclusive resorts. It has 85 websites in 34 languages.
Hotelscombined.com/ is a hotel metasearch engine based in Sydney, Australia. It has 235,000 unique hotels in 225 countries worldwide and offers a comprehensive selection of hotels globally backed by a Best Rate Guarantee. Quotes are available in 24 languages and hotel pricing is displayed in 198 currencies. There are no booking, amendment or cancellation fees. HotelsCombined also has a Loyalty Program which offers 5% Cash Back. Its Facebook link: facebook.com/HotelsCombined.
Booking.com offers access to 300,000 accommodations ranging from campsites to five-star luxury properties. It charges no booking fees, has excellent availability, guaranteed best rates, multilingual content (41 languages), a currency conversion and has 19 million verified guest reviews from actual guests.
Venere.com is a global market specialist for online reservation of hotels and other types of accommodation and is part of Expedia. The Venere.com website is renowned for the quality and originality of its content and it comes with innovative content, interactive maps and over 1 million independent reviews. Simply type your booking preferences in the Venere booking platform below to instantly access over 140,000 hotels, bed & breakfasts, apartments, country houses, and other types of lodgings in over 180 countries.
Otel.com is a leading online hotel reservation specialist for discounted hotel bookings worldwide for both business and leisure travelers. They offer competitive rates at over 150,000 hotels in 15,000 destinations, a Best Rate Guarantee, a 5% Cash back and a No Cancellation Fee Policy.
GetARoom.com focuses on a limited number of major destinations and selects the properties in each destination that offer the very best values and better rates for you. GetARoom.com also publishes special promotions such as Limited Time Offerings, Specials for Longer Stays, Seasonal Specials and Last Minute Deals.
Hotelopia is part of TUI Travel, the world’s leading tour operator. It specialize in hotel accommodation and offer reduced-rate accommodation to both leisure and business travellers with 40,000 properties in over 2,800 destinations worldwide.
Fly.com searches hundreds of airlines and travel websites (such as Travelocity or Orbitz) for the best fares. Users are taken directly to the airline or travel website of their choice to complete the booking and according to the New York Times, while searching for flights "it was Fly.com that found the best bargain....".
Hostelworld.com is the market leader for reservations to the budget, independent and youth travel market, focussing on hostels and B&Bs. It provides online confirmed bookings for over 27,000 properties in 180 countries and has 3.5 million guest reviews.
Hpmunk.com is a direct competitor to the big names in travel such as Expedia and allows its users to book flights and hotels - flight results are shown in a visual timeline format and hotel options are presented on local maps. It has local websites in seven countries.
Airbnb.com is a global marketplace for travelers to list and book unique worldwide private properties, from city apartments to country villas. It offers 200,000 unique listings in more than 25,000 cities and 192 countries.
Oyster.com aims to tell the true story about the hottest hotels and uses a a feature called 'photo fakeouts', which pit contrasts marketing against reality.
Jetsetter.com is an invitation-only travel community which offers deeply discounted global experiences. It uses a 'Jetsetter verified' stamp, which means that its editors have personally visited the hotels and that they’ve met certain standards. It also has an easy-to-follow layout, a personal travel planner service and a rental-property collection.
Tripit.com turns flight, hotel and car-rental confirmation emails into master itinerary—maps. It also includes directions and weather.
Wanderfly.com allows its users to create travel-themed boards about places they have visited or want to visit. It can then be searched for global suggestions by using tags such as 'family, nightlife, foodie' etc. and it can be syncing with a social network like Facebook.
