portfolio that includes some of the world’s most trusted online travel brands. Expedia is one of the fastest growing online travel portals in Asia, offering travellers an extensive selection of hotels, activities and travel services to meet every budget and activities of every kind at competitive rates.
With over hundreds of thousands of hotel partners
worldwide and a comprehensive offering of flight inventory made available on the website, travellers can book everything they need for a holiday - rooms to meet every budget, activities of every kind and travel services to complement. Expedia com sells its products under 5 broad categories, and each of these serves as separate product lines. It is used for booking of airline tickets, cruises, reservations in a hotel, car rentals and vacation packages. It sells products with a lot of variety available, which allows customers to select the product variety that best suits them. The company has made an in-depth research and realized that it is the middle-class section which is the most frequent traveler. Hence it has adopted several pricing policies according to its target group. It provides reasonable pricing policy for the middle-class section with lots of options to choose from. For its upper-class travelers, it has adopted a premium pricing policy . Expedia has its headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. It has a major presence in United States, Hong Kong, China, Brazil, Sweden, Japan, India, etc. It follows an omni-channel distribution system where it has integrated its online and offline stores to allow customers easy access to its products. Expedia com uses multiple media channels to promote its products.it uses both traditional as well as online and social media advertising. Expedia com undergoes various sales promotion taking part in various trade exhibitions and events around the year. Expedia com undergoes personal selling, with a large sales force to increase its presence in retail stores. The company is spreading over more than 60 countries and employs more than 150000 people. The workforce is a mix of a diverse group of people from different expertise and cultures. Expedia com has people working in its customer service department. These are contacted by customers in case of any issues within the product, and these people guide customers through the process of getting the issues resolved. Expedia com has people working with suppliers to obtain raw materials and at retail stores to help the customers on site. Expedia com has an online delivery process, where orders are received in the computer system and based on these orders, the relevant product from the inventory is shipped to the delivery service provider. Expedia.com makes sure that its products are always available at retail stores has systems installed, where retailers can notify when their inventory levels are low. Expedia com has an online website that is user-friendly and allows customers to view its products in high quality images taken from various angles.