| In the year 1996, Microsoft launched an online | | | | ensure that the information they get is confirmed |
| travel booking site, called Expedia, which brought | | | | first hand and that the company's valued |
| about a radical change in booking travel | | | | relationships with their associate dealers is |
| reservations. After three years, the online travel | | | | maintained and strengthened. |
| agency was released by Microsoft due to the | | | | The company website offers a variety of the |
| fact that maintaining travel deals was not one of | | | | best travel options and provides online coupons |
| Microsoft's specialties. Other brand in the current | | | | that give consumers the ability to get discounts |
| day Expedia, Inc. portfolio has independently | | | | on these deals. Whenever a customer applies for |
| deepened their roots and began their respective | | | | deals using an Expedia coupon, they can get a |
| courses of improvement. | | | | purchase fee discount that ranges from 20%, up |
| It was during the onset of the new millennium | | | | to 50% off. Expedia's website also has a Last |
| that Expedia began its expansion to become and | | | | Minute Deals web page wherein travel deals that |
| remain to be the world's leading online travel | | | | have almost reached their expiration date will be |
| agency. In the year 2001, the company took | | | | put up on sale with a 30% discount. Such deals |
| possession of a number of other travel | | | | are very suitable for individuals with a flexible |
| companies and expanded its scope of travel. The | | | | schedule and those who are on a budget. |
| subsequent year, the IAC (InterActiveCorp) | | | | In addition, a page dedicated to help in the |
| secured Expedia and ever since, has assisted it to | | | | process of research, planning and booking travel |
| grow as a travel company under it's' surveillance. | | | | deals is made available for consumers to use. For |
| During their time with IAC, Expedia has gained a | | | | example, those interested in getting into a flight |
| valuable relationship with the parent company's | | | | can read airline seat reviews about those that are |
| travel partners. And in a good time of three | | | | available in that particular flight and pick one that |
| years, IAC formally released its travel businesses | | | | would best suit them. The option to add activities |
| under the name Expedia, Inc., which has become | | | | in a booked trip is also available for customers |
| a parent company to a global portfolio of leading | | | | that do not have an idea on what they could |
| consumer brands. | | | | expect from their destination. |
| Employing a mixture of 8,000 full-time and | | | | Coupons for Expedia are not easy to find though. |
| part-time employees across an international | | | | Some customers have claimed to have bought |
| network of brands, Expedia also has an inclusion | | | | these coupons from a different website. Find |
| of 1,920 employees from eLong, Inc., which is | | | | Savings, which is an online bargain-hunting website, |
| their Chinese associate. In huge quantities, the | | | | gathers deals from products such as jewelry, |
| responsibilities of these people all range from | | | | electronics, food and drink, pets, office supplies, |
| quality control and customer service, to securing | | | | automotive, apparel, computer hardware and a |
| the best selection of travel deals anywhere in the | | | | host of other goods and services. The bottom |
| world. As a matter of fact, Expedia has deployed | | | | point for this is that browsing search engines and |
| a number of their employees to the company's | | | | websites connected with Expedia can be helpful in |
| hotel and travel partners across the globe to | | | | searching for discount coupons. |