Trip.com

Trip.com
Type of business Private
Type of site
 Online travel agency
Area served International
Owner The Ctrip Group
Industry Travel, Hotel, Information technology
Services Online booking service for flights, hotels and trains
Website trip.com
Alexa rank Positive decrease 4,960 (July 2018)[1]
Launched 2017

Trip.com is an online travel agency, first launched in late 2017. The Trip.com brand is owned by Ctrip, the world's second largest online travel agency,[2] which is also the parent company of Skyscanner. The Trip.com brand was acquired by Ctrip in 2017[3] and became the basis for their website aimed at international audiences.[4] The brand also has a popular mobile app available on Android and iOS.

The site provides booking services for flights, hotels and trains. According to their site, more than 1,200,000 hotels and accommodations are bookable through the website, while it features flights to over 5,000 cities across the globe.[5] Train tickets can be purchased for the UK, Germany, South Korea and Mainland China.

Trip.com is available in 13 different languages including English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Indonesian, Malaysian and Thai, with the mobile app also featuring Vietnamese and Filipino. It also has localized English versions available for Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Company history

September 2017 - Ctrip acquires Trip.com

November 2017 – The new Trip.com website soft launched

January 2018 – Trip.com officially launched

February 2018 – South Korean rail ticket purchasing launched. In doing so, Trip.com becomes the first third-party to sell Korail tickets online.[6]

March 2018 – Trip.com launched a new rental car service on its English website, servicing over 6,000 cities across the world.[7]

June 2018 – Airport transfer launched on Trip.com's Hong Kong and English sites, initially covering more than 200 cities in 55 countries.[8]

Domain history

The original Trip.com (formerly Gogobot), founded by entrepreneurs Travis Katz and Ori Zaltzman, was acquired by Ctrip in 2017.[9] The core product acquired by Ctrip, now renamed as Trip by Skyscanner, has become the content platform powering user-generated content and personalization across the Skyscanner and Trip.com products.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/trip.com
  2. ↑ Sean O'Neill (19 November 2017). "Ctrip Relaunches Trip.com as Its English Language Travel Agency Brand". Skift.com. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "Ctrip Buys Trip.com for Skyscanner to Enhance Local Recommendations". Skift. 2017-11-01. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  4. ↑ Dennis Schaal (13 March 2011). "CEO Interview: Ctrip's Strategic Threat to Expedia, Priceline and Everyone Else". Skift.com. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "About Us - Trip.com". Trip.com. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  6. ↑ PR Newswire (8 February 2018). "Ctrip Partners With Korean National Rail". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  7. ↑ PR Newswire (5 March 2018). "Ctrip Launches International Car Rental Service on Trip.com". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  8. ↑ Globe Newswire (4 June 2018). "Trip.com Hong Kong Launches Airport Transfer Car Service". Globe Newswire. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  9. ↑ Sean O'Neill (1 November 2017). "Ctrip Buys Trip.com for Skyscanner to Enhance Local Recommendations". Skift.com. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
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