Tripping.com

What Tripping.com does

Tripping.com is a vacation rental metasearch platform founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco. The company aggregates over 12 million property listings from major vacation rental providers including HomeAway, VRBO, TripAdvisor, Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, and HRS Holidays, exposing them through a single consumer-facing search interface that covers 190 countries. Users can filter, compare, sort, and book properties directly through the platform, with the product portfolio anchored on a core metasearch engine complemented by destination-specific landing pages (Berlin, New York City, Miami, Phuket, Rio de Janeiro, Nashville, and dozens of others) optimized for organic search traffic.

The platform is free to consumers and monetizes exclusively through referral and affiliate commissions earned when users complete bookings on partner sites. Distribution is entirely product-led and self-serve: users arrive via organic search or direct navigation, perform their comparison, and are routed to the booking partner. The company operates with a lean team of 11-50 employees and does not disclose revenue, funding history beyond 2018, or detailed financials.

Tripping.com now operates as a subsidiary brand under HomeToGo, a publicly-listed vacation rental marketplace. This parent relationship is evident in the site's underlying CDN (hometogo.net), the redirect of supply-side 'List your home' calls to action to hometogo.com, and the absence of independent corporate disclosures post-2018. No AI/ML capabilities, patents, certifications, or proprietary technology stacks are disclosed beyond the aggregation and search platform itself.

Name

Tripping.com

Legal name

Tripping.com

Website

https://tripping.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Tripping.com is a vacation rental metasearch platform aggregating 12M+ listings from HomeAway, VRBO, Booking.com, and others across 190 countries. It earns affiliate commissions on bookings routed to partners and operates as a subsidiary brand of HomeToGo.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Travel Metasearch

NAICS

Travel Agencies (561510), Travel Agencies (56151), Traveler Accommodation (7211)

SIC

Hotels, Rooming Houses, Camps & Other Lodging Places (7000), Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531)

akta.pro primary industry

Metasearch & Aggregator Platforms for Vacation Rentals (THAMALAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Vacation Rentals Metasearch (THALAEAD), Professional/Managed Inventory Vacation Rental Marketplaces (THAMALAB), Lodging & Vacation Rental Booking Platforms (BPAMAIAC)

Keywords

• Vacation rental search
• Metasearch platform
• Short-term rentals
• Accommodation comparison
• Rental aggregation

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Referral/Affiliate fees: The platform generates revenue by driving traffic and bookings to partner vacation rental sites. When users search and book through the aggregated listings from HomeAway, VRBO, TripAdvisor, Booking.com and other partners, Tripping.com earns referral commissions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Tripping.com operates as a vacation rental metasearch platform that aggregates over 12 million property listings from multiple partner sites including HomeAway, VRBO, TripAdvisor, Booking.com, and Expedia. The platform provides a single search interface where users can filter, compare, and sort vacation rental options across 190 countries, then routes bookings to the originating partner sites for completion.

Product overview

Tripping.com is a vacation rental metasearch platform that aggregates and indexes vacation rental listings from multiple partner sites including HomeAway, VRBO, TripAdvisor, Booking.com, and Expedia. The platform operates as a single unified search interface allowing users to filter, compare, and book over 10 million available properties across 190 countries worldwide. The product portfolio includes a core metasearch platform complemented by destination-specific landing pages for major travel markets (e.g., Berlin, New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Miami, Phuket, San Francisco, Asheville, Blue Ridge, Cocoa Beach, Fort Myers Beach, Key West, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Orange Beach). Each destination page provides localized property listings with filter options for amenities such as Wi-Fi, kitchens, pools, terraces, and pet-friendly accommodations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tripping.com Vacation Rental Metasearch Platform

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• HomeAwaycoreTechnology or IntegrationHomeAway is one of the major vacation rental listing providers whose properties are aggregated on Tripping.com, allowing users to search and compare HomeAway listings alongside other providers.
• VRBOcoreTechnology or IntegrationVRBO (Vacation Rentals by Owner) properties are indexed and displayed in Tripping.com search results, enabling users to compare VRBO listings with other vacation rental platforms.
• TripAdvisorcoreTechnology or IntegrationTripAdvisor vacation rental listings are aggregated on Tripping.com, providing users access to TripAdvisor's property inventory in their unified search.
• Booking.comcoreTechnology or IntegrationBooking.com vacation rental properties are included in Tripping.com's search aggregation, allowing users to compare Booking.com options alongside other major providers.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Expedia: Expedia is a major online travel aggregator that supplies vacation rental inventory to Tripping.com while also offering its own lodging and alternative accommodation search, competing for the same consumer booking intent.
• Vrbo: Vrbo (part of Expedia Group) is one of the largest vacation rental marketplaces and a key supply partner whose listings Tripping aggregates, while also competing for end-booking conversion on its own direct platform.
• HomeToGo: HomeToGo is the parent company of Tripping.com and itself operates a global vacation rental metasearch marketplace with overlapping inventory aggregation, supplier partnerships, and SEO-driven destination pages.
• Trivago: Trivago is a hotel-focused metasearch platform that aggregates accommodation listings and drives referral traffic to OTAs and providers, sharing Tripping's price-comparison and affiliate economics.
• Kayak: Kayak is a leading travel metasearch engine aggregating flights, hotels, and car rentals from suppliers globally, with a comparable price-comparison value proposition and affiliate revenue model, now also covering vacation rentals.
• Airbnb: Airbnb is the dominant vacation rental marketplace globally and competes with Tripping.com for travelers seeking short-term rentals, with a brand-first, app-centric model that disincentivizes third-party aggregation.
• Booking.com: Booking.com is both a partner of Tripping.com (supplying inventory) and a competing booking platform with its own vacation rental vertical, app-first user experience, and direct-traffic strategy that competes for the same end traveler.

Direct peers

• Tripadvisor: Tripadvisor operates a major vacation rental search experience alongside its review platform, indexing listings from multiple partners and competing directly with Tripping for users comparing short-term rentals.
• HotelsCombined: HotelsCombined is a hotel metasearch engine that compares accommodation rates across multiple booking sites, sharing Tripping.com's price-comparison user experience and affiliate-driven revenue model.
• Holidu: Holidu operates a vacation rental metasearch and booking platform aggregating listings from major sites across Europe and globally, directly comparable to Tripping.com in product, target user, and affiliate-driven business model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/tripping
• Facebookfacebook.com/tripping
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tripping-international

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors15 records

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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