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In 2025, Expedia Group named ZentrumHub an Elite Technology Partner — and the first Technology Partner in APAC to join its $100 Million Club. Here’s the story behind the milestone, and what it means for the OTAs and agencies building on ZentrumHub.
Becoming an Elite Technology Partner of Expedia Group isn’t a badge you apply for. It’s a status earned through scale, reliability, and results measured over years — and in 2025, ZentrumHub reached it. According to Expedia Group’s own published case study, ZentrumHub became a trusted Elite Technology Partner and the first Technology Partner in APAC to join its $100 Million Club.
This is the story behind that milestone — what ZentrumHub set out to solve, what the Expedia Rapid Lodging API integration unlocked, the results it produced, and why it matters for the OTAs, travel agencies, and TMCs that build on ZentrumHub. Every figure and quote here comes directly from Expedia Group’s published case study.
Expedia Group recognises a small number of technology providers as Elite Technology Partners — its highest tier of partnership, reserved for partners who deliver scale and consistent results on its platform. In 2025, ZentrumHub joined that group, and reached a milestone that, per Expedia’s case study, no APAC technology partner had reached before.
Source: Expedia Group case study, “How ZentrumHub became an Elite Technology Partner.” Figures as reported by Expedia Group.
What makes the $100 Million Club milestone notable is the timeline: per Expedia Group, the partnership only began in 2020. Reaching over $100 million in gross booking value within that window reflects how quickly the relationship scaled — and, as Expedia’s case study puts it, “the scale, trust, and impact of the relationship built over the years.”
ZentrumHub works with travel businesses worldwide — global travel agencies, online travel agencies, and travel management companies, including Fortune 500 companies. Serving that range of clients well meant solving a recurring problem in travel technology: the ecosystem is fragmented, and stitching it together is hard.
Per Expedia Group’s case study, ZentrumHub needed three things to deliver on its vision of simplifying that complexity:
The integration at the centre of the story is Expedia Group’s Rapid Lodging API. Per the case study, it gave ZentrumHub and its clients competitive rates at over 800,000 properties across 220 countries and territories, with a range of rate and discount types to suit different business requirements. ZentrumHub built several Rapid API capabilities into its platform:
Feature set as described in Expedia Group’s case study.
“Driven by a commitment to simplifying travel booking, Expedia Group is leading the B2B space. Rapid Lodging API is the best in the industry, with lightning-fast speed. We’ve built a strong, trusted partnership with our Expedia Group team whose industry experts support ZentrumHub’s business and clients across five regions.”
The numbers Expedia Group reported speak for themselves. Across the partnership, ZentrumHub realised +200% year-over-year growth in Expedia Group booking value and a +125% year-over-year increase in Expedia Group bookings — and crossed $100 million in gross booking value in 2025, the first APAC technology partner to do so.
Results like these don’t come from technology alone. As the case study makes clear, the human side of the partnership mattered just as much — and Bhushan Tamhankar credited the Expedia Group account team directly:
“ZentrumHub’s dedicated account manager and account management team at Expedia Group have been key to our success, always eager to connect and share ideas and best practices.”
A partner recognition is interesting on its own, but the practical point for an OTA or agency is what it changes for you. The Expedia Group inventory and Rapid API capabilities behind this milestone aren’t locked away in ZentrumHub’s own products — they flow to every client building on the platform.
When you connect to ZentrumHub, you reach Expedia Group’s 800,000+ properties through a partner Expedia itself recognises as Elite — without negotiating, integrating, or maintaining that connection yourself. And Expedia is one source among many: it arrives alongside 100+ other suppliers through a single API, deduplicated into clean inventory. The elite-partner relationship is, in effect, part of the supply you inherit.
That’s the throughline of the whole story: ZentrumHub did the hard, multi-year work of building and scaling a top-tier Expedia integration — so its clients don’t have to. You get elite-partner-grade Expedia inventory as one part of a broader, unified hotel supply, ready to launch on.
Connect once to ZentrumHub and access Expedia Group’s 800,000+ properties — alongside 100+ other suppliers — through one deduplicated API.
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