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American Airlines

American Airlines, Inc. (AA) is a US-based airline and the world's largest airline in total passengers-miles transported, passenger fleet size, and the second largest airline in terms of aircraft operated (FedEx Express, a cargo airline has more aircraft) and the second-largest airline company in the world (behind Air France-KLM) in terms of total operating revenues[4]. A wholly owned subsidiary of the AMR Corporation, the airline is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, adjacent to the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. American operates scheduled flights throughout the United States, as well as flights to Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, Western Europe, Japan, China, and India. The Chairman, President, and CEO of AA is Gerard Arpey. In 2005, the airline flew more than 138 billion revenue passenger miles (RPM).

Booking.com

Booking.com, part of Priceline.com (Nasdaq:PCLN) is Europe’s leading online hotel reservations agency by room nights sold, attracting over 20 million unique visitors each month via the Internet from both leisure and business markets worldwide.

British Airways

British Airways plc (LSE: BAY) is the national airline and flag carrier of the United Kingdom and one of the largest in Europe. Its main hubs are London Heathrow and London Gatwick. British Airways holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating Licence, and is permitted to carry passengers, cargo and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats. British Airways is a founding member of the Oneworld airline alliance.

CheapTickets

CheapTickets is an online travel services company focusing on the leisure market. It sells airline tickets, hotel and condo rentals, rental cars, customized vacation packages, and cruises.

CouchSurfing

The CouchSurfing Project is a free international Internet-based hospitality service, and currently the largest hospitality exchange network. As of April 2008, it had more than 500,000 members in 226 countries and territories. From various indicators it can be estimated that many members were actively using the website, with 40 percent offering their couches to host travelers (with another 22 percent saying "maybe" and others who are traveling at the moment).

EasyJet

EasyJet Airline Company Limited, styled as easyJet, is a low cost airline based at London Luton Airport. It is one of the largest low-fare airlines in Europe, operating domestic and international scheduled services on 387 routes between 104 European and north African airports.

Expedia

Expedia is an Internet-based travel agency and a part of Expedia, Inc. which is based out of the United States of America with localized sites for 15 countries. It books airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages, and various attractions and services via the World Wide Web and telephone travel agents. The site uses multiple global distribution systems like the Sabre reservation system for flights and for hotels, Worldspan, and Pegasus along with their own hotel reservation system for their contracted bulk rate reservations which is shared with other Expedia, Inc. sites. In 2006, Expedia.com was awarded a Webby Award in the area of "Best In Travel Websites" and a Stevie Award from the American Business Association for "Most Innovative Company".

Hilton Hotels

Hilton Hotels is a international chain of full-service hotels and resorts founded by Conrad Hilton and now owned by the Hilton Hotels Corporation. Hilton Hotels are either owned, managed, or franchised to independent operators by the Hilton Hotels Corporation. As of 2008 there are 533 Hilton branded hotels across the world. Hilton Hotels became the first coast-to-coast hotel chain of the United States in 1943. The original price for an overnight stay in 1943 was around $20. The company places marketing emphasis on business travel, but owns and operates a number of resorts and leisure-oriented hotels as well. The company's Hilton Honors guest loyalty program has partnerships with airlines and car rental companies.

InterContinental Hotels Group

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) (LSE: IHG NYSE: IHG) is a multinational company which operates several hotel brands. It is the largest hotel company by number of rooms (556,000 as of March 2007), and is headquartered in Windsor just outside Greater London. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Kayak.com

Kayak.com is a travel search engine website based in the United States. Founded in 2004, it aggregates information from over 100 other travel sites and helps users book flights, hotels, cruises, and rental cars. Kayak combines results from online travel agencies, consolidators such as Orbitz and Airfare.com, and other sources such as large hotel chains.

Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet Publications (usually known as Lonely Planet or LP) is one of the largest travel guidebook publishers in the world. It was the first popular series of travel books aimed at backpackers and other low-cost travelers. As of 2008, it published about 500 titles in 8 languages, with annual sales of more than six million guidebooks, as well as TV programs, podcasts and websites.

Marriott International

Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) is a worldwide operator and franchisor of a range of value and luxury hotels and related lodging facilities. Marriott currently has 2,300 accommodation properties in North America alone. Its heritage can be traced to founder J. Willard Marriott's experience as a Mormon missionary and later operating a root beer stand. He and his wife, Alice, opened the stand in Washington, D.C. in 1927. Today, Marriott International has about 3,150 lodging properties located in the United States and 67 other countries and territories.

Orbitz

Orbitz Worldwide is an Internet travel company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Orbitz, along with all other Cendant travel businesses, was sold to a subsidiary of the Blackstone Group in a deal worth over $4.6 billion, forming a new company called Travelport.

Priceline.com

Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN) is a commercial website which helps users obtain discount rates for travel-related items such as airline tickets and hotel stays. The company is not a direct supplier of these services; it is similar to a web portal, providing comparative pricing from an assortment of service companies. It is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States. Priceline is the brainchild of venture capitalist Jesse Fink and of digital entrepreneur Jay Walker; the company's origins were closely tied with Walker's company Walker Digital. Hong Kong company Cheung Kong Holdings later purchased a significant portion of Priceline's stock.

Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) is an American low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas, with its largest focus city at Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport. It is the largest airline in the United States by number of passengers carried domestically per year and (as of December 31, 2007) also the largest airline in the world by number of passengers carried. It is also the 6th largest U.S. airline by revenue. It also maintains the third-largest fleet of aircraft among all of the world's commercial airlines.

Travelocity

Travelocity is an online travel agency operated by Travelocity.com LP. Travelocity is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sabre Holdings Corporation, which was a publicly traded company until taken private by Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group in March 2007. Travelocity is based in Southlake, Texas, with additional offices in New York City, San Francisco, San Antonio and abroad.

Travelzoo

Travelzoo (NASDAQ: TZOO) is a global Internet media company that publishes travel deals from over 900 companies and delivers them to subscribers via newsletters. Travelzoo carefully selects high-quality deals and publicizes them in their Top 20 newsletter, on their website (www.travelzoo.com) and in their e-mail alerts.

Virtualtourist

Virtualtourist (VT) is a free, travel-oriented community website featuring user-contributed travel guides for locations worldwide. The site has over one million registered members. It offers some 1.5 million travel reviews and 3 million photos on over 55,000 destinations. The website is operated by Virtualtourist, Inc., Westlake Village, California. Members of Virtualtourist write tips about places they have visited or lived in, and are encouraged to rate the tips of fellow VTers on a scale of 1-5 for honesty, accuracy, writing style and helpfulness.

Wikitravel

Wikitravel is a Web-based project "to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide." Although it uses a wiki model to create the guide and to deliver it on the World Wide Web, Wikitravel content is also used in printed guides published by Wikitravel Press. Wikitravel is built through collaboration of Wikitravellers from around the globe.

XE.com

Independently ranked as the world's favorite free Internet currency tools and services. Currency converter, currency table, email updates, and more.