2016 top earning travel companies rankings are based on their reported sales for the year of 2015 and only list the top 50 travel companies.

1. Expedia Inc. – $ 60.8 billion

Expedia, Inc.  is an American travel company that owns and operating several international global travel brands, mainly travel fare aggregator websites and travel metasearch engines including Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, trivago, Venere.com, Travelocity, Orbitz, and HomeAway.

As a division of Microsoft
: Headquarters: Bellevue, Washington, US

2. Priceline Group – $ 55.5 billion

The Priceline Group  is an American-based provider of travel and related online services to consumers and local partners through six primary brands: Booking.com, Priceline.com, agoda.com, KAYAK, Rentalcars.com and OpenTable.

Established: 1997; 20 years ago
Headquarters: Norwalk, Connecticut, United States

3. American Express Global Business Travel – $ 30 billion

American Express established a Travel Division in 1915 that tied together of the many efforts of making travel easier, and soon established its first travel agencies. In the 1930s, the Travel division had grown widely. Albert K. Dawson was instrumental in expanding business operations Overseas, even investing in tourist relations with the Soviet Union. Dawson during World War I had been photographer and film correspondent with the German army. Today the focus of the Travel Division is on business customers and business travel, that is, corporate travel management The

By: 1915

4. Carlson Wagonlit Travel – $ 24.2 billion

The group has existed in its present form since 1994, the result of a 50% / 50% merger from two large travel agency ventures. The Carlson side was originally from the  Ask Mr. Foster Travel Agency  chain, which had already been rebranded to  Carlson Travel Network.  The Wagonlit part came from the travel shop business of Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits.

On April 27, 2006, Accor announced the sale of its 50% interest in CWT to Carlson Companies and One Equity Partners.

On June 22, 2014, the company announced that Carlson, a privately held corporation in the hotel, marketing, restaurant, and travel industries which owned a 55% stake in the company, would purchase the remaining 45%, held by JPMorgan Chase.

1991:
Minneapolis, United States

BCD Travel – $ 23.8 billion

BCD Travel was founded on January 3, 2006, when BCD Group announced its decision to purchase TQ3 Travel Solutions, the corporate arm of the TUI Group and a sum interest in The Travel Company, an independent British corporate travel company. WorldTravel BTI, marking the end of the brand. BCD Travel, the new corporate identity for the consolidated companies, before trading under that name on March 31, 2006.

In 2013, BCD Travel acquired TBiz, the corporate division of Travelocity.

Beginning 2006
Headquarters: Utrecht, Netherlands