![]() “The app is very strategic because not only is it a great booking experience because it’s clean and it’s on a phone, but it’s a very important piece of real estate,” Booking Holdings Chief Financial Officer David Goulden told investors and analysts last month. Booking’s Kayak brand didn’t make the top 10 as Expedia Group’s Trivago was the sole metasearch, or comparison shopping brand, in the mix.īooking sees mobile as a major priority because it wants more direct bookings. “We will now be an app-first company, including all the goodness that comes with a tool that is with you for your whole trip, it keeps you informed, that keeps you informed in the shopping path.”īooking Holdings secured two of the top 10 most-downloaded online travel agency apps, namely (1) and Agoda (5). “And then on the traveler side, we haven’t really been an app-first company,” Expedia Group CEO Peter Kern said at an investor conference in early December. Of the top 10 most-downloaded online travel agency apps around the world, Expedia Group accounted for four of them, namely Expedia (4), Vrbo (6), Trivago (7), and (tied for 8).Įxpedia Group claims to be reorienting the company towards mobile. When it came to the top 10 most-downloaded online travel agency apps globally in 2021, the top three were, Airbnb, and Hopper, with the latter becoming much more mainstream over the last year. ![]() Online travel agency (3), based in Europe, and short-term rental giant Airbnb (5), headquartered in the U.S., were the only two pure-play travel apps to make it into the list of top 10 travel apps by downloads globally in 2021. Google Maps is way more than a navigation app and last year it introduced “easier ways for businesses to show the local services they offer, from hair extensions to auto repair,” Google Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler said at that time. In October, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent, Alphabet, said Google Maps added climate friendly routing in the U.S., enabling drivers to find routes that produce fewer emissions, and also rolled out a feature alerting drivers to wildfires. (See travel and online travel agency apps with the most downloads globally in two charts below.)ĭownload statistics aren’t purely a function of popularity they also reflect how much marketing resources companies devote to attracting these installs. All of these apps are used by locals and travelers. Of course, you can argue that navigation and ridesharing apps aren’t “travel,” but they certainly bleed into the category. In fact transportation apps, including Google Maps, Uber, Didi, Bolt, Lyft, Where Is My Train, and Grab took seven of the top 10 positions in 2021, according to. Google Maps was the most-downloaded travel app in the world in 2021 with 106 million downloads, edging Uber, which held that distinction in 2020.
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