Expedia Group's Rapid API โ formally the Rapid Lodging API โ is the B2B interface that exposes Expedia Group's directly-sourced global lodging supply to travel platforms, OTAs, TMCs, and aggregators. It is a fast, lightweight, modular REST API covering the full traveler journey: shopping, booking, payment, and post-booking management.
Rapid gives partners access to 800,000+ properties across 220 countries, 310,000 destinations, 32M+ images, and 76M+ verified reviews โ all directly contracted by Expedia Group, which means competitive rates and consistent content quality. The API handles over 6 billion calls a day, powering hundreds of travel companies globally.
Rapid replaced Expedia's legacy EAN (Expedia Affiliate Network) XML API approach โ what many still call the Expedia XML API โ with a modern JSON/REST, URL-linked, modular design. You integrate only the endpoints you need and adopt new functionality through an evolving schema โ no forced version migrations.
Expedia is deliberately selective. Because it engages its own engineering team for each integration, it vets applicants on booking volume, market, and coverage โ smaller platforms are frequently turned away. Even when accepted, enrollment, contract negotiation, and connection can take several months. ZentrumHub removes that barrier entirely: as a certified Expedia Elite Technology Partner, our Rapid connection is already live and maintained, so you inherit a compliant integration instead of joining the vetting queue. Read our full Expedia Rapid API integration guide.
Connecting Expedia through ZentrumHub's universal hotel API gives you the full integration stack โ search, book, manage โ without building any of it. Pair it with our AI-powered booking engine or plug the API into your existing platform via Zentrum Connect.
Live Expedia pricing and room availability, refreshed on every search. Sub-500ms responses across 900K+ hotels.
Static content โ descriptions, images, amenities, geo data โ normalized to one schema across Expedia and every other supplier.
Complete booking lifecycle through one endpoint: pre-book price checks, instant confirmation, modifications, and cancellations.
The same property from Expedia and other suppliers merges into one listing โ best rate always on top, no duplicate hotels.
Bring your own Expedia license. Your negotiated rates and commercial relationship stay untouched; we supply the technology.
Bookings, supplier performance, and reconciliation for Expedia and your whole supplier mix โ one login, one report.
Award-Winning Travel Technology Platform
Intelligent, standardized destination & property autosuggest for faster search.
76M+ authentic reviews from verified travelers, built into your property pages.
Locks the room price while the traveler completes payment โ no price-change surprises.
Modify a booking without cancelling the whole reservation โ less manual ops.
Structured property-to-partner messaging for special requests and queries.
Event-driven HTTP POST for cancellations and modifications โ no polling.
32M+ images and room-level content in 40 languages.
Personalized property ordering per client for higher conversion.
Expedia Group directly contracts 800,000+ properties across 220 countries and territories โ from global hotel chains to vacation rentals โ with 32M+ images and 76M+ verified reviews. This is directly-sourced inventory with competitive, commissionable rates you can't assemble from wholesalers alone.
Deep US & Canada chain + independent supply
UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain โ chains & rentals
220 countries, 310K destinations, vacation rentals
{
"hotelId": "ZH-8842136",
"name": "Grand Palace Hotel & Spa",
"suppliers": [
{ "code": "expedia", "rate": 142.50, "currency": "USD" },
{ "code": "hotelbeds", "rate": 149.00, "currency": "USD" }
],
"bestRate": { "supplier": "expedia", "total": 142.50 },
"deduplicated": true,
"responseTime": "312ms"
}One unified JSON schema. Expedia and 100+ suppliers, deduplicated, best rate on top.
Every Expedia API capability โ availability, booking, content, cancellation โ exposed through ZentrumHub's unified REST endpoints with one JSON schema.
| Endpoint | What it does | Expedia data returned |
|---|---|---|
| Shopping / Availability | Real-time Rapid availability & rates, relevancy-ranked | Live prices, room types, rate plans, cancellation policies |
| Property Content | Static content sync | 32M+ images, descriptions, amenities, geo, room data |
| Typeahead | Intelligent destination & property autosuggest | Standardized location & property matches |
| Price Check | Verify rate & availability before booking | Confirmed price, hold token |
| Booking (Hold & Resume) | Create booking, lock price during payment | Itinerary ID, confirmation, voucher |
| Manage Booking (Hard Change) | Modify without full cancellation | Change status, penalties, refund reference |
| Guest Reviews | Pull verified traveler reviews | Ratings, review text, traveler metadata |
| Notifications | Push booking events (no polling) | Cancellations, modifications, status changes |
One of a small group of providers certified at Expedia's highest tier for hotel distribution, listed publicly on Expedia's own partner site.
Elite TierAnyone can call themselves an Expedia partner. Ours is on the record. Expedia Group runs a Certified Technology Partners Program with two tiers โ Preferred and Elite โ and evaluates partners on integration quality, rate and payment coverage, mapping quality, and connected partners. ZentrumHub sits in the Elite tier.
Expedia Group certifies ZentrumHub at its highest partner tier, announced publicly on BusinessWire.
First technology partner in APAC to cross $100M in Expedia gross booking value.
Expedia Group publishes the partnership as an official case study on its own partner site.
Expedia Group publishes case studies on only a handful of technology partners. ZentrumHub is one โ with growth numbers Expedia reported itself. Their case study reports +125% year-on-year growth in Expedia bookings and +200% growth in booking value, and names ZentrumHub the first technology partner in APAC to enter the $100 Million Club.
Clients running the Expedia hotel API through ZentrumHub see it compound. TravClan grew to 4x daily bookings on the platform.
There's no flat published price for Expedia Rapid API โ here's what actually drives cost, and how ZentrumHub removes most of it.
One integration with Zentrum Connect. Expedia becomes a configuration step, not a development project.
Pass your Expedia API credentials (BYOL โ your contracts, your negotiated rates) or activate ZentrumHub's pre-integrated connection. No supplier-side certification queue.
Expedia's responses are mapped to ZentrumHub's unified JSON schema. Content, rates, currency, and availability arrive in the same format as every other supplier on your stack.
AI-powered mapping resolves Expedia properties against your other connected suppliers. The same hotel from multiple sources collapses into one listing โ best rate surfaces automatically.
Expedia inventory flows into your booking engine, B2B portal, or B2C platform through one REST endpoint. Sub-500ms search across 900K+ hotels, 30M+ API calls daily.
You're live in 15 days โ while direct integrations take 6โ12 months. We absorb all supplier-side maintenance: when Expedia changes endpoints or auth, we update once and every customer keeps working.
Zentrum Connect gives you a single dashboard to manage Expedia and 100+ other suppliers โ toggle, monitor, configure. Live response times, automated health checks, real-time analytics.
Turn Expedia and 100+ suppliers on or off independently โ A/B test, manage cost, run experiments per market.
See latency per supplier in real time. Expedia averaging 468ms? You know the moment something drifts.
Set markup by supplier, market, property tier, or customer segment โ without touching code.
Add Expedia's inventory to strengthen your Global coverage. Combined with your other connected suppliers, results arrive deduplicated with the best rate surfaced automatically.
Source competitive bedbank rates from Expedia alongside your existing supplier mix โ one API, one dashboard, one reconciliation flow.
TMCs and corporate booking tools running Expedia alongside GDS and bedbank suppliers โ one dashboard, one reconciliation flow, consolidated reporting.
Package builders combining Expedia hotel inventory with flights, transfers, and activities โ sourced through one API with deduplicated results.
| Requirement | Direct Integration | Via ZentrumHub |
|---|---|---|
| Partner onboarding | Expedia approval process | Not needed โ connection live |
| API certification | Supplier-dependent | None on your side |
| Integration timeline | 6โ12 months | 15 days |
| Engineering effort | Dedicated team + maintenance | Zero โ we absorb updates |
| Property ID mapping | Manual โ duplicate risk | AI deduplication built in |
| Your contracts & rates | Direct relationship | Kept โ BYOL supported |
| Per-booking fees | โ | Zero. Flat SaaS pricing. |
Expedia Group's EPS Rapid API โ the modern successor to the Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN) โ is the most trusted hotel booking API in B2B travel.
800K+ properties in 220 countries, all directly contracted โ hotels, apartments, vacation rentals, and house boats.
Exclusive distribution rates with global chains and opaque package rates travelers can't find elsewhere โ commissionable and competitive.
Rapid handles 6 billion+ API calls per day with lightning-fast response โ proven at the scale hundreds of travel companies depend on.
32M+ property images in 40 languages plus 76M+ verified guest reviews build traveler trust and lift conversion.
Real partners on what changed after moving to ZentrumHub. Tap to play.
โOne of the best things is their fast support.โ
โThey connected us to fragmented hotel suppliers.โ
From OTAs to travel agency software and corporate booking tools โ Expedia Rapid API via ZentrumHub powers every B2B travel model.
Launch a full OTA with 800K+ Expedia hotels plus 100+ suppliers on one hotel booking API โ your brand, your checkout.
The Expedia API for travel agents: give sub-agents and travel agents Expedia inventory through white-label travel agency software with markup control and credit limits.
Power business-travel booking tools with negotiated Expedia rates, Hold & Resume, and post-booking automation.
Add Expedia Rapid API to your aggregation layer โ deduplicated against other bedbanks so the best rate always wins.
Embed hotel booking into banking or rewards apps with a white-label Expedia-powered travel experience.
Skip Expedia's direct vetting (which rejects most startups) โ go live fast through a certified Elite Partner.
Verified results from Expedia Groupโs official case study โ how ZentrumHub became an Expedia Elite Technology Partner.
Direct access requires becoming an Expedia Group partner and passing their selective vetting โ often several months, and smaller platforms are frequently declined. Via ZentrumHub, the Expedia Rapid connection is already live and certified; you can be in sandbox this week and live in about 15 days.
Expedia has no flat published price โ it's negotiated per partner based on market, coverage, and booking volume, plus your own engineering build and maintenance cost. Through ZentrumHub you keep your negotiated Expedia commercials (BYOL) with no per-booking fees added on top.
Rapid (Rapid Lodging API) is Expedia Group's modern, modular REST API for B2B lodging distribution โ 800K+ properties across 220 countries, covering shopping, booking, payment and post-booking, handling 6 billion+ calls per day.
Yes โ Expedia's Developer Hub (developers.expediagroup.com/docs/rapid) hosts Rapid schemas and docs, but only after partner approval. Via ZentrumHub you build against one unified API documentation covering Expedia and 100+ suppliers.
Direct: several months (vetting, contract negotiation, then 2โ3 months of engineering). Via ZentrumHub: about 15 days, because the certified connection already exists.
The affiliate program (TAAP/affiliate) monetizes referral traffic sent to Expedia. Rapid API lets you sell Expedia inventory inside your own booking flow โ your brand, your checkout. ZentrumHub connects the Rapid (B2B) path.
Yes. Connect through an Expedia Certified/Elite Technology Partner like ZentrumHub โ you inherit a live, certified Expedia connection without joining the vetting queue.
Everything ZentrumHub offers around the Expedia integration โ from the universal hotel API to complete travel agency software.
Universal hotel API โ 100+ suppliers, one integration
โ Hotel Booking APISearch, book, cancel through one REST endpoint
โ Hotel API AggregatorAggregate bedbanks, GDS & wholesalers in one feed
โ Hotel Booking EngineAI-powered white-label booking engine for OTAs
โ B2B Travel PortalTravel agency software with sub-agent management
โ B2C Travel PortalConsumer booking platform โ your brand, live in 15 days
โ Hotel Supplier ConnectZentrum Connect โ switch suppliers on as configuration
โ 100+ Hotel SuppliersBrowse every pre-integrated supplier in the directory
โ Hotel API Free TrialSandbox access โ test suppliers through the unified API
โ Book a Hotel API Demo15-minute call to map your supplier mix
โ90+ OTAs across 15+ countries run on ZentrumHub. Add Expedia to your supplier stack in 15 days โ direct integrations take 6โ12 months.
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