• Expedia: revenue by business line 2021

The annual revenue of Expedia Group, Inc. increased by approximately 65 percent in 2021 over the previous year, after having experienced a sharp drop in 2020 due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Overall, earnings from the merchant business line, which facilitates travel bookings from travel suppliers, amounted to 5.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2021, rising from around 3.3 billion U.S. dollars in 2020. Meanwhile, revenue from the agency business line nearly doubled over the same period.

Revenue of Expedia Group, Inc. worldwide from 2017 to 2021, by business line (in million U.S. dollars)

Characteristic	Merchant	Agency	Advertising, media, and other
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Release date

February 2022

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2017 to 2021

Special properties

fiscal years ending December 31

Supplementary notes

The merchant line facilitates the booking of hotel rooms, airline seats, and destination services from Expedia’s travel suppliers. Expedia is the merchant of record for such bookings.

The agency line facilitates travel bookings and acts as the agent in the transaction, passing reservations booked by the traveler to the relevant travel portal. Expedia receives commissions or ticketing fees from the travel suppliers and/or traveler.

The advertising and media line offers travel and non-travel advertisers access to a potential source of incremental traffic and transactions though media and advertising offerings on Trivago or Expedia’s other transaction based websites.

*Vrbo, previously HomeAway was acquired on December 15, 2015 by Expedia Inc. Vrbo is a subscription-based vacation rental listing products and services related to the listing of their managers purchase in advance online advertising services related to the listing of their properties for rent over a fixed term (typically one year), and on a transaction-basis where a commission is earned on traveler bookings completed on the website.