Expedia Group is an American online travel shopping company for consumer and small business travel.Its websites, which are primarily travel fare aggregators and travel metasearch engines, include CarRentals.com, Expedia.com, HomeAway, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, trivago and Vrbo.According to Rich Barton, the company's first CEO, the word "Expedia" is derived from a combination of "exploration" and "speed".