Expedia is where millions of travellers assemble entire trips — flight, hotel, car — in one checkout. Increasingly, they add one more thing: something to do when they get there. For tour, activity, and attraction operators, that booking moment is gold, because the traveller has already committed money and dates to your destination. TicketingHub's channel manager puts your live inventory into that moment, and drops every resulting booking into the same dashboard as your direct sales.
What is Expedia?
Expedia is one of the largest travel platforms in the world — a one-stop site where travellers plan and book trips, often bundling flights, hotels, and car rental to save. Its stated mission is to empower people to travel the world by bringing together millions of possibilities for travellers and partners, filtered through advanced technology so each traveller finds the trip that fits. Alongside accommodation and transport, Expedia sells activities and experiences, giving operators access to travellers at the exact point they are shaping an itinerary.
How the integration works
TicketingHub acts as the channel manager between your inventory and Expedia. Your availability is shared live; when a traveller books your tour on Expedia, the booking appears in your TicketingHub dashboard as one sale alongside every other channel — TripAdvisor, GetYourGuide, your own website, your box office. There is no overbooking risk and no lost inventory, because every channel draws down the same seat pool in real time.
- Connect all sales channels and bookings instantly
- Manage availability across channels automatically
- No manual errors, therefore no more over-bookings
- Monitor all your bookings from one place
- Increase global visibility and expand your business
The connection carries a simple per-booking integration fee on the TicketingHub side. Commission terms for selling on Expedia itself are agreed between you and Expedia.
Use cases for operators
Capturing the package traveller
A couple booking flights and four hotel nights in Rome is a few clicks from adding a food tour or a Vatican entry to the same trip. Being present on Expedia's shelf at that moment wins bookings your own website would never see — the traveller wasn't searching for you; they were searching for Rome.
Attractions smoothing demand across the week
Zoos, ziplines, museums, and cruises can expose their full timetable to Expedia's audience. Because the channel sells from live availability, quieter mid-week sessions get global visibility while sold-out weekend slots close automatically everywhere.
Operators consolidating a messy channel mix
Many operators come to us running Expedia, one or two other OTAs, and a wall of confirmation emails. Connecting everything through one channel manager turns that into a single manifest and channel-tagged reporting — you finally see what each OTA actually contributes after the admin cost.
Connecting Expedia to TicketingHub
The setup follows TicketingHub's standard OTA pattern: add a wholesale rate to the products you want to distribute, create a reseller record for Expedia, then create a channel containing the permitted products and share the channel credentials. Contact your TicketingHub account manager or the support team — sales@ticketinghub.com — to enable the channel and confirm the current steps on the Expedia side.
Once live, verify it: make a test booking through the OTA as far as the passenger-details step, then check the Orders screen in TicketingHub for a pending booking tagged with the reseller name. That is your confirmation the connection works end to end.
