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Hotwire is a discount travel website that offers low prices on airfare, hotel, rental cars, and vacation packages by selling off unsold travel inventory at discounted prices. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Hotwire, Inc. is an operating company of Expedia, Inc. (). Expedia also operates Hotels.com, ClassicVacations.com, and Egencia. == History == Hotwire was launched in 2000 by Karl Peterson, Eric Grosse, Gregg Brockway, and Spencer Rascoff and by six major airlines: American, Northwest, Continental, America West (now US Airways), and United. They were funded by a leading private equity firm, Texas Pacific Group (TPG) with an initial $75 million investment. Prior to its formal launch, it was codenamed Purple Demon.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Can Purple Demon avoid Orbitz errors? )〕 In September 2003, IAC/InterActiveCorp announced its acquisition of Hotwire.com for $663 million. (Expedia spun off from IAC in 2005.) Hotwire's co-partners under IAC included Citysearch, Evite, HSN, Ticketmaster, LendingTree, RealEstate.com, Entertainment.com, and Match.com.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=InterActiveCorp grabs onto Hotwire )〕 In 2007, J.D. Power and Associates Independent Travel Web Site Satisfaction StudySM recognized Hotwire for ranking "Highest in Customer Satisfaction for Independent Travel Web Sites" for the second year in a row.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=J.D. Power and Associates Ranks Hotwire.cc Top Travel Site for Second Consecutive Year )〕 In 2009, they were given the 2008 award for the third time in a row. Hotwire first launched with opaque airline tickets. They started selling opaque hotel and rental cars a few months later. Package offerings started in 2003. In 2004, Hotwire began to offer select retail travel products. In June 2007, Hotwire removed all airfare booking fees. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hotwire.com」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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