"Expedia Group is an American online traveling purchasing firm for customer as well as local business traveling. Its sites, which are mostly travel fare collectors and also travel metasearch engines, consist of CarRentals.com, Expedia.com, HomeAway, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, trivago and also Vrbo.

According to Rich Barton, the firm's very first Chief Executive Officer, the word "" Expedia"" is derived from a mix of "" expedition"" and "" speed"".."