Trip.com
Trip.com is an international online travel agency. The website is owned by Trip.com Group (formerly Ctrip.com International, Ltd. in China), one of the world's largest online travel agencies with over 400 million users worldwide, and also the parent of Skyscanner. The site provides booking services for flights, hotels, trains, car rentals, airport transfers, tours and attraction tickets, and claims to offer more than 1.2 million hotels in 200 countries and regions, as well as over 2 million flight routes connecting more than 5,000 cities. Train tickets for use in the UK, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and Mainland China  are also available for purchase on the site. Trip.com is available in 19 different languages, including English, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Turkish, Polish, Greek, Indonesian, Malaysian and Thai, with the mobile app also featuring Vietnamese and Filipino. It also provides localized English versions for Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Trip.com was acquired by Trip.com Group in October 2017. Acquisition by Ctrip. CTrip acquired Trip.com in October, 2017. The original business, built by entrepreneurs Travis Katz and Ori Zaltzman, was a travel booking site that featured user-generated content and "predictive intelligence-based technology." At  the time of acquisition, CTrip reported Trip.com had more than 60 million users. The price of the deal was not disclosed. The Palo Alto-based startup had raised $39 million in funding. Expedia, Redpoint Ventures and Battery Ventures were among the investors in the company, which was founded in 2010. History of Brand. Prior to its acquisition by the Trip.com Group in 2017, the Trip.com brand had changed hands several times. Awards. 2019 Google Material Design Award: Universality