Crowdsource Your Travel: Expedia “Last-Minute Deals” Program Lets Customers Share the Best Deals with One Another

New deals engine features user-generated and user-informed flash sales

BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 19, 2012 – Expedia.com®, the world's leading online travel agency, today introduced the Last-Minute Deals program, which relies on user-generated deals and user-informed travel trends to lift up and showcase the best near-term travel deals. Several million travelers come to Expedia.com every day to search for travel deals. Last-Minute Deals harnesses their collective effort and shares it with the world.

Americans, Japanese and Koreans take fewest vacation days; French, Spanish, Dutch and Brazilian workers take most

Learn more by visiting the 2011 Expedia Vacation Deprivation study site.

New additions to Expedia's industry best-in-class cruise portfolio - upscale and river cruising - among the hottest trends in the cruise industry

BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Expedia.com, the world's leading online travel agency, today added a boutique selection of new luxury and river cruise booking options to the company's already industry-leading cruise portfolio. Expedia.com now offers eight award-winning luxury cruise brands and three top-ranked river cruise brands.

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Popular Expedia hotel booking app now designed-customized for tablets, giving travelers a simple and elegant way to research and book hotels with four quick taps

BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Expedia.com® (NASDAQ: EXPE), the world's leading online travel agency, today announced the availability of a major update to its popular Expedia® Hotels app for the iPhone and Android OS, which adds full support for iPad and Android tablets. Since launching in spring 2011 on iPhone and Android, Expedia Hotels has become one of the world's most popular hotel booking apps. The Expedia Hotels mobile app has been downloaded almost two million times and has been the #1 free travel app in more than 40 countries on the iTunes App Store.

LONDON, PARIS, MUNICH and BRUSSELS, Dec. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Egencia™, an Expedia, Inc. company, today announced that it has acquired Traveldoo, a leading provider of Web and mobile platforms for business travel management.         

Traveldoo's leading corporate travel booking tool complements Egencia's fully-integrated Travel Management Company services platform, with its innovative corporate travel technologies. Traveldoo's unique combination of user-friendly technology and broad content are aligned with Egencia's strategy of leveraging technology to provide a better corporate travel management solution.