Expedia Group TAAP review

Expedia Group TAAP is the booking technology operation behind Expedia, Inc., a company headquartered in the United States. It is not a consumer site you open on a holiday; it is a service businesses embed in their own products so travellers can book through them.

The product list is hotels and packages, so stays and packages make up the whole catalogue here. Nothing on that list covers rail, ferries, cruises, transfers or car hire, which is why sellers in those categories look at other providers.

Support is listed as help centre, so questions are answered through self-service articles rather than a live agent on email, chat or phone. That suits partners who read documentation and handle their own travellers without escalation.

For a property that already owns its site and wants to add stays, the stay ranking is the useful measure: hotels appear on 82.8% of stay sites, and this brand counts among them.

The difference is breadth. This brand stops at hotels and packages, while MoMo covers flights, rail and bus and WayAway covers flights, rail and bus, so the wider catalogues suit sellers with a mixed travel range.

12Go is the transport specialist in this group, covering flights, rail and bus. If your inventory is rail, bus, ferry and transfers across Southeast Asia, its range fits better than a catalogue of stays and packages.

Packages are offered by 84.8% of booking sites, and this brand counts among them. Stays are similarly widespread at 82.8% of stay sites, the row this brand is built around.

Flights are absent from hotels and packages, so an air-led brief gets no catalogue here. That sits in a different row from stays and packages, where 82.8% and 84.8% apply, so flights sellers should compare other providers.