Orbitz is an internet travel company offering booking services for flights, hotels, rental cars, and cruises. It was created in 1999 by five major airlines and offers discounts for multiple services purchased at once. Orbitz gained popularity and expanded to offer discounted hotel reservations in addition to airline tickets. The website offers a variety of travel options including railroads and cruises, ranging from cheap roadside motels to expensive resort-type hotels.
Orbitz® is one of many Internet travel company websites that serve people looking for and planning trips and vacations. Some of these services include booking flights, cruises and hotel rooms, as well as booking rental cars. Other services are also provided and all of these can be combined in different configurations. For example, a family looking for a vacation can rent a car, book a flight and reserve a hotel room all at once through Orbitz® as a “package” or simply rent the car through the site. Typically, multiple services purchased at once will result in a higher overall discount off the price, but this isn’t always the case. In addition, different types of fees may apply to each type of service before finalizing the travel booking.
Orbitz®, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, officially went online in June 2001 and was originally created in 1999 by five major airlines: American, Continental, Delta, Northwest and United. The point of this internet startup was for airlines to offer rock bottom prices for airline tickets without having to pay commissions to other online databases specializing in booking airline tickets. Orbitz® would rely on a separate fast search engine to gather the massive amount of data to run a website that sells a commodity like airline tickets.
Orbitz® immediately gained popularity as a travel website and eventually began offering stock of the company to the public in 2003, the same year it began expanding to offer discounted hotel reservations in addition to airline tickets. The company trades on the New York Stock Exchange as OWW (Orbitz® Worldwide) and owns a variety of other similar websites. Orbitz® employs several thousand people worldwide and also has offices in London, Sydney and elsewhere.
The Orbitz® homepage is where a person looking for travel plans can find most of the services the site has to offer. By filling out the necessary information, a person looking for a travel service will typically receive many different choices at varying rates. For example, someone looking for a flight must enter the place where they want to travel and the city they are from, as well as the travel dates. Searching for a rental car at the same time will result in possible flight and car combinations to choose from, as well as the cost, excluding taxes and other fees.
This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the amount of travel options you can search through websites like the one offered by Orbitz®. Someone can look for plans to travel to virtually any destination along with many different modes of transportation including railroads and cruises. The hotels that can be booked range from cheap roadside motels up to expensive resort-type hotels. Likewise, a traveler may choose first-class air or bus tickets or a cheap rental car over an expensive sports vehicle. The options for a global travel package through online travel websites like Orbitz® are virtually endless.
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