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Hotel Distribution & OTAs

20 verified facts tracked for this market — each with its source, reporting period and evidence tier. Tier 1 = primary institutions (central banks, statistical offices); tier 2 = disclosed industry panels.

MetricValueGeoPeriodTierSource
Average daily rates booked on Expedia Group, year-over-year change5percentGlobal2026-Q2T1sec.gov
Properties listed on Booking.com4.4million propertiesGlobal2025-12-31T1sec.gov
Lodging properties available on the Expedia Group marketplace3.6million propertiesglobal2025-12-31T1sec.gov
Booking Holdings total revenues as a percentage of gross bookings (realised take rate)14.5percentGlobal2025T1sec.gov
Year-on-year revenue growth of the Sabre Distribution segment1.99percentglobal2025T1sec.gov
Airbnb nights and seats booked, North America158million nights and seatsNA2025T1sec.gov
Booking Holdings room nights reserved1235million room nightsGlobal2025T1sec.gov
Year-over-year growth of Booking Holdings total gross bookings12.4percentGlobal2025T1sec.gov
Booking Holdings sales and other expenses as a percentage of total revenues (payment and customer-service cost of a book12.8percentGlobal2025T1sec.gov
Share of Sabre revenue paid back to travel agencies and other distribution partners as incentive consideration and other43.6percentGlobal2025T1sec.gov
Share of Booking.com room nights booked for alternative accommodation properties36percentGlobal2025T1sec.gov
Booking Holdings merchant revenues17755USD millionGlobal2025T1sec.gov
Booking Holdings marketing expenses (performance and brand marketing, substantially variable)8186USD millionGlobal2025T1sec.gov
Booking Holdings total gross bookings (retail value of room nights, rental car days and airline tickets reserved)186107USD millionGlobal2025T1sec.gov
Expedia Group revenue from the merchant business model10256USD millionglobal2025T1sec.gov
Expedia Group direct selling and marketing spend (traffic generation from search engines and portals, TV and print, affi7349USD millionglobal2025T1sec.gov
Average booking value per night or seat booked on Airbnb171.24USD per night or seatglobal2025T1sec.gov
Average nights per booking on Airbnb3.7nights per bookingglobal2025T1sec.gov
Passengers boarded on flights run on Amadeus airline reservation and inventory platforms2249million passengersglobal2025T2amadeus.com
Share of European hotels reporting that OTAs undercut their rates51percent of hotelsEU2025T2hotrec.eu

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