"Expedia Team is an American online travel shopping company for customer and small company traveling. Its internet sites, which are mainly travel fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines, include CarRentals.com, Expedia.com, HomeAway, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, trivago and also Vrbo.

According to Rich Barton, the company's very first CEO, the word "" Expedia"" is derived from a mix of "" expedition"" as well as "" speed"".."