Travelocity Celebrates 30th Anniversary; Launched by Sabre and Worldview Systems on March 12, 1996
🗺 Happy 30th Birthday, Travelocity (now Expedia)! On March 12, 1996, Sabre and Worldview Systems launched a 200,000-page travel guide site, offering online travel bookings. Before Travelocity, Internet Travel Network made the first online air booking in 1995, and TravelWeb launched hotel bookings on March 7, 1996, with 6,000 properties. Microsoft launched Expedia over seven months later. The travel industry in 1996 faced disruption similar to today’s agentic AI advances.
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