Here at BOOT central we are trying to keep track of the acquisitions and subsidiaries of Expedia’s Tripadvisor. In earlier posts on this we tracked simply by way of a list of acquisitions in reverse date order. With what looks like two deals a year to monitor I have decided to expand the list with some more details. Here is an extensive list of all of the acquisitions made by Tripadvisor since joining the Expedia family.| Company | Sector | Date of Acquisition | Description |
| HolidayLettings | Holiday rentals | 24-Jun-10 | UK based holiday rental company (is not HolidayRentals owned by HomeAway) |
| Kuxun | Meta-search | 30-Oct-09 | China based meta-search. Kuxun means Cool Information or Smart Information |
| Flipkey | Holiday rentals | July 15 2009 | Boston based holiday rental company |
| OneTime.com | Deal Search | 1-Jul-08 | At time of acquisition claimed 5 mm uniques and 30mm page views. One estimate puts deal at $85mm. Onetime do not like being called a metasearch company |
| Virtual Tourist | Social network | (same deal / company) | |
| Airfarewatchdog.com | Deal Search | 2-Apr-08 | Site that monitors airline deals especially in low cost carrier sector |
| HolidayWatchdog | Review Site | 1-Feb-08 | Hotel and holiday reviews with some deal searching – UK based. Travolution rumour that price GBP9-10mm |
| Cruisecritic.com | Review Site | 25-May-07 | Cruse ship reviews and deal search |
| IndependentTraveller.com | Destination Content | (same deal / company) | Destinations content and information. Includes brand Family Vacation Critic |
| smartertravel.com | Destination Content | 9-May-07 | Destinations content and information |
| Travel-Library.com | Destination Content | (one deal buying Smarter Travel Media) | Also includes brand Frequent Flyer.com |
| bookingbuddy.com | Meta-search | Booking search | |
| TravelPod.com | Blog Platform Social Network | Platform for travel reviews and blogs as well as networking | |
| SeatGuru.com | Review Site | Reviews individual seats on aircraft to help with picking seat assignments | |
| Everytrail.com | Trip planning | 3-Feb-11 | Trip planning service focused on mobile platforms |
Have I missed any? Official Expedia Inc listing is here. Yes – Expedia owns Tripadvisor (you wont believe how much traffic I get for the question “who owns Tripadvisor”).
2 comments:
Nice post - I really had no idea how many companies they had bought and shows how big they've got. Thanks for the useful info.
tripadvisor has bought 15 companies.right? how powerful it is!
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