Expedia Group
American online travel group that owns Vrbo and Expedia.
Expedia Group's Booking data is one of three platform feeds behind Eurostat's 951.6 million EU short-stay guest-nights for 2025, a total that lost a fourth platform when TripAdvisor left the panel in November 2024.
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Expedia Group is a US online travel company headquartered in Seattle. Its brands include Expedia, Hotels.com and the holiday-rental marketplace Vrbo, and its shares trade on Nasdaq. It sells hotel rooms, flights and whole-home rentals in markets across Europe, the Americas and Asia.
In Europe its data carries weight beyond its own bookings. Eurostat builds its short-stay accommodation statistics from figures shared by Airbnb, Booking and Expedia Group. TripAdvisor left that panel in November 2024, so the 2025 total of 951.6 million guest-nights covers three platforms where 2024 covered four. Eurostat published an 11.4% rise without restating the 2024 baseline; on a like-for-like basis, growth sat between 16% and 18%.
The same series now shows the market slowing. Nights booked through the three platforms grew 5.3% in April to June 2026, against 17.6% a year earlier. Housing departments and city halls that quote Eurostat's short-let figures are quoting, in part, Expedia Group's listings data.
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