China travel companies that belong to the global online travel world pattern are

First, Priceline: customer reverse pricing, the pioneer of online travel C2B model

Priceline was founded by legendary American entrepreneur Jay Walker in 1998, headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, and listed on NASDAQ in 1999. As of 20 13, 12, 3 1, it has 9,400 employees worldwide. Priceline has four brands: booking.com, agoda.com, priceline.com, rentalcars.com and Kayak.com, and provides online booking services for hotels, air tickets, car rentals and travel packages for users all over the world. Priceline is the pioneer of online travel C2B business model, which provides an information platform for buyers and sellers to trade and extract a certain commission from it. Priceline also provides traditional hotel reservation service for guests who want to stay in a certain accommodation or a designated brand, but consumers can choose according to pictures, descriptions, maps and customer comments, and pay according to the published price. However, Priceline's "self-pricing" model has been its competitive advantage since its establishment. E Long's "hotel bargain" model has the same effect, but it is more in line with the actual situation in China. Priceline has a market value of US$ 67.66 billion, ranking first in the world.

2. Catway Eagle: the most popular travel community and travel review website in the world, focusing on community building.

Catway Eagle was founded by Stephen Cafour in February 2000 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, USA. Previously, it was a subsidiary of Expedia, which was split on 201kloc-0/65438+February 20 and listed independently on Nasdaq, with the code of TRIP.

Catway Eagle is the largest and most popular travel community in the world. Its core content is to provide travelers with hotel reviews, hotel popularity index, advanced hotel selection tools, hotel price comparison search, social travel picture sharing and online travel friend exchange. Catway Eagle will provide most of the tourism content to users free of charge, build a community around the content and users, encourage users to share and create content, and gradually form a tourism community centered on the content and users, and rely on commercial advertisements for its main income. Cat Way Eagle Media Group owns 65,438+09 tourism media brands such as Cat Way Eagle, Ticket Watchdog, Booking Partner, CruiseCritical, Family Holiday Key, Flipkey, Holiday Express, Holiday Watchdog, Independent Traveler, OneTime, SeatGuru, Smarter Travel, Sniqueway, Tourism Library, TravelPod, Virtual Tourists and Kuxun.cn. There are websites in 33 countries around the world, and the website in China is called Tripadvisor. The market value151million dollars, ranking second in the world.

Third, Expedia: the agent+wholesaler model is dominant, with complex business and diversified brands.

Expedia 1996 was born in Microsoft and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. It was founded by Richard Barton and Lloyd Frink, two former Microsoft executives (they also founded Zillow (Nasdaq: Z), a famous American real estate search website, in 2005). Expedia was originally a website for tourists to inquire and book travel products online. 1999 was spun off from Microsoft and listed independently on Nasdaq. Up to 20 13 12 3 1, it has more than 14000 employees in more than 30 countries around the world.

Expedia is an online travel product booking service provider, which does not provide travel products by itself, and mainly relies on the mode of "agent+wholesaler" to sell the products of travel product suppliers and obtain commissions. Commission can be sold through Expedia at the price specified by the supplier and charged at a certain proportion. This mode is called agency mode. It is also possible for Expedia to obtain products from suppliers at a fixed price and then earn the sales difference. This is called the merchant model, but the difference is that the latter gives Expedia the right to price products.

Expedia owns Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Expedia affiliate network, Classic Vacations, Expedia Local Expert, Egencia, Expedia CruiseShipCenters, E Long and Venere, and its brands are diversified, covering hotels, air tickets, car rentals, luxury cruise ships, activities, destination travel services, business travel services and travel media services. Expedia's market value103.7 million USD, ranking third in the world.

Fourth, Ctrip. Com: OTA (online travel)+traditional travel, transforming "finger"+"cement"

Ctrip. Com was founded in 1999 by Liang Jianzhang, Shen Nanpeng, Miracle and Fan Min. It is the largest online travel company in China, headquartered in Shanghai. Ctrip was listed on Nasdaq on February 9, 2003. Ctrip has four product lines: air tickets, hotels, travel vacations and business trips. But in terms of mode, Ctrip is divided into OTA (online travel) and traditional travel. Ctrip's "mouse+cement" model: Ctrip has built an operation model based on website, membership system and huge call center. "Mouse" refers to the call center staff booking hotels and air tickets for guests online; "Cement" refers to Ctrip's offline team responsible for offline sales and business travel management. In addition, Ctrip's ground products also include group tours, day trips, pick-up and drop-off machines, tour guide services, and ticket services.

2065438+February 2, 20031day, Liang Jianzhang returned to Ctrip and put forward the theory of "thumb+cement". Ctrip has begun a comprehensive transformation in tourism big data application research such as product mobile booking app creation, mobile display of tourism information, and open platform cooperation. The market value is 6.378 billion US dollars, ranking fourth in the world.

5.HomeAway: B&B Brother, the world's largest online holiday rental service provider.

HomeAway was founded by Sharpless and Karl Sheppard in February 2005. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, Homeaway is the world's largest online service provider of holiday house rental, which was listed on NASDAQ on 20 1 1. HomeAway acquired five leading holiday rental websites in the world through initial investment after its establishment. At present, it includes HomeAway.com, VRBO.com, VacationRentals.com, HomeAway.co.uk, OwnersDirect.co.uk, HomeAway.de, Abritel.fr, Homelidays.com, HomeAway.es, rural.es, AlugueTemporada.com.br, HomeAway.com.au, Stayz.com.au, Bookabach.co.nz and travelmob.com. By the end of 20 13, HomeAway had more than 1400 employees in 8 countries around the world and more than 890,000 holiday rental houses in 90 countries around the world, so it was called "the first brother of homestay".

HomeAway's operation mode is to build a platform on the Internet, through which the owners of tourist destinations can post their real estate online for tourists to rent temporarily, thus giving full play to the free time value of the owners' real estate. HomeAway earns income by charging publishing fees for listing information and corresponding value-added services. According to the SEC document submitted by HomeAway, most of its income comes from the housing information display fee.

In addition, HomeAway also sells advertisements on its website, and cooperates with third parties to adopt a revenue sharing model to increase the company's revenue sources and improve the user experience. HomeAway also provides credit card business accounts, travel insurance, house damage protection, tax refund and other services to tourists. HomeAway also cooperates with many online travel companies to recommend some houses and related information to them, and then participate in the revenue sharing or directly charge a certain fee. As of 20 14, 15:59 (EST), the market value is 3.85 billion US dollars, ranking fifth in the world.

Sixth, where to go: from tourism vertical search, platform to TTS.

Qunar.com was founded by Zhuang and Guo Bingxiang in May 2005. Headquartered in Beijing, it was listed on NASDAQ (trading code: QUNR) on 20 1 1 (EST). As the first travel search engine in China, Qunar provides in-depth search for domestic and foreign air tickets, hotels, vacations and visa services to help China tourists make better travel choices.

QUNR (qunar) was founded as a pure travel search company, and collected the information of air tickets and hotels sold by OTA of various sizes on its website, so that users can easily find the information of low-cost air tickets, hotel products and unpopular products, and then introduce official website of airlines and hotels to sell products directly on it. As more and more products are accessed, more and more users are attracted. Where to go, you can charge some traffic import fees to those OTA websites, which is what we usually call CPC pay-per-click income. Wherever you go, it becomes a tourism product platform. In order to improve the user experience and intercept users, Qunar.com introduced TTS system, allowing users to complete the ordering and payment links in Qunar.com's website. On the one hand, it simplifies the reservation process itself and optimizes the user experience, on the other hand, it can introduce a safeguard mechanism to better prevent cheating users. The market value is 3.584 billion US dollars, ranking seventh in the world.

Kayak: professional search technology service provider for tourism products.

Kayak was founded in February 2004 by Steve Hafner and Paul English, former founders of Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz, and was listed on NASDAQ in June 20 12 (stock code KYAK). 20 12 was acquired by Priceline in August, but remained independent. Kayak started as a travel search company and changed its name to Kayak Software Company in August 2004.

Kayak is a typical technology-driven company, which not only has powerful online search technology, but also has many innovations in the user interface of travel search and price comparison. Kayak's various mobile phones and tablet applications also rank first among major app stores. Today, Kayak is the leading travel search engine in the United States, providing not only flight and hotel reservation services, but also vacation and car rental services. Kayak's search function is very complete, including cross-city search, flexible date search, weekend search and a large number of filtering tools. Kayak is characterized by accuracy and specialization compared with the domestic vertical search website Qunar and Cool News, while the domestic one is horizontal development. The market value is 6543.8 USD+57 million USD, ranking eighth in the world.

Eight, Orbitz: Ctrip benchmark, travel OTA big data tester

Orbitz Worldwide is an online booking website established by five major American airlines on 200 1. After being acquired by Cendant in 2004, it expanded into a world-famous online travel website, and now its business model is similar to Ctrip. In July 2007, Orbitz was spun off and listed independently; GDS giant Travelport holds a 48% stake in Orbitz. Orbitz is headquartered in the West Side Center near Citigroup in Chicago, Illinois. Orbitz was listed on the new york Stock Exchange in July 2007. Other online travel companies in Orbitz include CheapTickets, Away Network in the United States, ebookers in Europe, HotelClub in Sydney and RatestoGo.

Orbitz Worldwide's products include the search and booking of air tickets, hotels, car rentals, cruise ships, holiday packages and other tourism products, tourism product booking and itinerary planning. Orbitz released a series of data visualization tools on its website labs.orbitz.com on February 20 14. There is a data visualization tool of 10, which Orbitz calls the trend and weapon of the ultimate experience of tourism. Including hotel recommendation tools, destination hotspot maps, customized maps of tourist types, air ticket search models, hotel price hotspot maps, hotel reservation date price maps, weekly hotel daily price maps, seasonal hotel price trend maps, competition hotel discoverers and competition flight discoverers. The purpose is to test water big data, improve user experience and service level, and pave the way for further O2O. The market value is 969 million US dollars, ranking eighth in the world.

9.MakeMyTrip: India's largest online travel company, Ctrip.

MakeMyTrip was founded by Deep Kalra in 2000, and its headquarters is in Gourgand. From the perspective of China market, MakeMyTrip is called "Ctrip of India" by many people, and from the perspective of American market, MakeMyTrip is called "Expedia of India" by many people. At the beginning of its development, MakeMyTrip was positioned to serve overseas Indian nationals as its main customer base, and landed on Nasdaq (stock code: MMYT) on 20 10. Due to the Internet bubble and the US "9? 1 1 "incident, the company's business did not progress smoothly at first, and the funds were exhausted. Around 2004, with the first operation of local low-cost airlines in India, MakeMyTrip gained a firm foothold in the tourism market. The products provided by MakeMyTrip include air tickets, hotels, parcels, train tickets, bus tickets, car rental and tourism supporting services, such as travel insurance and visa processing. Its subsidiaries include hoteltravel.com, makemytrip.ae and makemytrip.com.sg. The market value is 950 million US dollars, ranking ninth in the world.

X.TravelZoo: American online travel information service+top 20 special offers

Travelzoo 1998 10 was founded by Ralph Bater, a reporter from Bertelsmann Group, with an investment of 1 10,000 USD. Travelzoo was listed on NASDAQ in February 2003 (code: TZOO), and its headquarters is in new york. Travelzoo is actually a tourist information service provider. The core of its business is to carefully select the most recommended travel products from the latest offers provided by thousands of travel agencies, travel product providers, hotels and airlines around the world every week, and send top20 selected time-limited travel information to subscribers. Travelzoo has a team of more than 200 experts, who are called "producers" and are responsible for searching, reviewing, refining and testing to find and confirm the most favorable quotation of tourism products and send it to their users by email every Wednesday. Travelzoo's fly.com's price comparison model is similar to Qunar.com (Qunar.com); In addition, it is also involved in group buying business. The market value is $353 million, ranking tenth in the world.