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June 21, 2007

Expedia Corporate Travel to Launch Full-Service Travel Offering in Italy

Fully-localized service and Web site strengthen world-class corporate travel offering

LONDON, PARIS, MUNICH, and BELLEVUE, WA, – June 21, 2007 – Expedia® Corporate Travel, a full-service travel management company, today announced plans to launch service in Italy. Companies doing business in Italy will have access to fully localized service, content, language support and a Web site providing a suite of online booking and travel management tools in Italian.

Expedia Corporate Travel also announced a partnership with L'Orchidea Viaggi, an experienced Italian travel management company, to provide local fulfillment services. This partnership combined with its investment in the Italian market allows Expedia Corporate Travel to offer corporate clients doing business in Italy a consistent global experience, while also offering Italian clients seamless, world class corporate travel services.

"We continue to expand Expedia Corporate Travel's global presence, ensuring we service each new market's unique needs while maintaining a globally consistent, high level of service," said Christophe Pingard, vice president Europe, Expedia Corporate Travel. "Combining L'Orchidea Viaggi's local market knowledge and service expertise with Expedia Corporate Travel's award-winning technology ensures that our customers will have the same consistent corporate travel management experience they have come to expect from us."

"L'Orchidea has worked with Expedia.it since 2004. The success of this relationship has enabled L'Orchidea to further expand this partnership to offer key fulfilment services to Expedia Corporate Travel in Italy," said Mr Gianfranco Mainardi, founder and president of L'Orchidea Viaggi.

Italy will be Expedia Corporate Travel's fifth European point of sale, adding to its existing European presence in France, Germany, the UK and Belgium.

For more information on Expedia Corporate Travel, please visit http://corporate.expedia.com. For more information on Expedia Corporate Travel Italy, please visit http://expediacorporate.it.

About Expedia® Corporate Travel

Expedia Corporate Travel is the No. 1 online corporate travel agency and fifth largest travel management company in the world. As part of Expedia, Inc., (NASDAQ: EXPE), the world's leading online travel company, empowering business and leisure travelers with the tools and information they need to easily research, plan, book and experience travel, Expedia® Corporate Travel brings together the best of technology and corporate support in a single-source solution that drives down costs. Business travelers have access to specialized tools, while companies can take advantage of rich management and reporting features.

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About L' Orchidea Viaggi

L'Orchidea Viaggi is a Milan based Travel Company, owned and Directed by Mr Gianfranco Mainardi since its inception in 1973. Active in many areas of the Travel Industry L'Orchidea has a rich history of technical innovation and expertise. This expertise has enabled L'Orchidea to achieve success in the traditional competencies of a Travel Company in both the Leisure and Business Travel segments. L'Orchidea also has a significant Incentive Travel section and online activities including one of the largest Italian online Cruise dedicated agencies. In recent years L'Orchidea has also established itself as a reliable partner to other industry businesses by offering fulfillment and technical services to other Travel Agencies and Incentive Houses.

2006 turnover reached €100m with a current employee count of 52.