Expedia Group B2B expands full-trip platform with Rapid Activities API and Tiqets beta in TAAP. Select technology partners can now test end-to-end activity booking through Rapid, while a limited group of UK travel agencies gains curated Tiqets inventory inside Expedia TAAP. Expedia Group is extending its Rapid API ecosystem into activities and experiences, with the new Rapid Activities API now in beta for selected partners. - Credit: Expedia Group Key takeaways. * Rapid Activities API is launching in beta for selected Expedia Group B2B partners, allowing customized activity discovery, shopping, booking and management through the Rapid ecosystem. * Select UK-based Expedia TAAP agencies now have access to a curated Tiqets activities beta designed to simplify discovery and recommendations for travelers. * Expedia Group says broader availability for Rapid Activities API is planned for early 2027, while access during the beta remains limited to selected partners. * The expansion supports Expedia Group B2B's broader push to let partners combine lodging, flights, cars, activities and other trip elements through fewer booking platforms and integrations. (NEWS) SEATTLE, Washington, United States, 2026-Oct-01 - /Travel PR News/ - Expedia Group B2B is extending its push toward end-to-end trip retailing by adding activities and experiences more directly into both its technology stack and travel-agent platform. The company's latest product milestones introduce a beta version of Rapid Activities API for selected partners and a curated Tiqets activities beta for a limited group of UK agencies using Expedia TAAP. The moves take Expedia Group's B2B proposition further beyond lodging, giving technology partners and travel advisors new ways to add attractions, museums, tours and other experiences to the same booking journey as accommodation, air and other trip components. Rapid Activities API moves into beta. The new Rapid Activities API is now in beta with selected partners. Expedia Group says the product enables B2B companies to build customized activity discovery, shopping, booking and post-booking experiences on top of its curated inventory, with Tiqets adding depth in attractions and museums. Rather than requiring partners to send travelers to a separate marketplace, the API is designed to let them control their own front-end experience while using Expedia Group's underlying inventory, content, pricing, availability and booking capabilities. Expedia says broader availability is planned for early 2027, while current access remains restricted to qualified beta participants and a waitlist. Stephen Cheng, vice president of Expedia Group B2B, linked the product expansion to growing demand for consolidated trip planning. Expedia Group's Full Trip Planning research found that 77% of travelers surveyed were likely to book multiple parts of their next trip on the same platform, reinforcing the commercial case for adding activities alongside flights, stays, cars and protection products. Global Hotel Card is among the beta partners. CEO Peter Friend said activity booking is increasingly moving earlier in the planning process, with some travelers choosing an experience before arranging the flight and hotel around it. Tiqets activities arrive inside Expedia TAAP for selected UK agencies. Expedia Group is also bringing curated Tiqets inventory into Expedia TAAP, its Travel Agent Affiliate Program, through a separate UK beta. A limited group of participating agencies can now search and book selected activities within the agent platform, with the interface organized to help advisors identify relevant options more quickly. Beta participant Flights Guru said the feature is intended to reduce the time agents spend searching for suitable experiences after arranging flights or accommodation. Commercial Manager Liam Brophy said the aim is to give staff more time to focus on travelers while making complementary experience recommendations easier to surface. The integration follows Expedia Group's acquisition of Tiqets, which closed in February 2026. In an earlier B2B update, Expedia Group said the acquisition would strengthen its activities business with curated attractions, museums and local experiences while adding Tiqets' expertise to its broader partner ecosystem. From lodging API to a broader full-trip platform. Rapid API began as a lodging-focused product but has been expanding into additional lines of business. Expedia Group now positions the ecosystem as a modular way for partners to assemble more of the trip in one place, including accommodation, air, cars, activities and other services. The activities launch is significant because experiences have historically been more fragmented than accommodation or air distribution. Bringing curated inventory into the same API environment can reduce the number of separate integrations partners need while giving them more control over how activities are merchandised alongside the rest of a trip. For travel agencies, the TAAP beta tackles the same issue from a different angle: instead of integrating an API, advisors receive a ready-made booking environment in which selected Tiqets products are surfaced alongside the other travel components they already sell through Expedia Group. The two initiatives remain limited in scope for now. Rapid Activities API is still in early access, and Tiqets activities in TAAP are available only to selected UK agencies during the beta phase. Expedia Group has not announced a wider TAAP rollout timetable in the material released with the update.

Qantas taps Expedia Group B2B for 2027 Hotels and holidays platform overhaul. The new technology stack will bring hotel and package booking, Qantas Points, trip management, machine-learning recommendations and expanded flight bundling into a more integrated digital experience. Expedia Group B2B technology on display at Explore 2026. The company's B2B platform will power the next Qantas Hotels & Holidays and Jetstar Holidays booking experience. Key takeaways. * Expedia Group B2B will power the end-to-end technology behind Qantas Hotels & Holidays and Jetstar Holidays under a new strategic partnership with Qantas Loyalty. * The upgraded platform is scheduled to launch in the first half of 2027, with build and integration work already underway. * Planned features include deeper Qantas App integration, improved self-service, machine-learning recommendations and holiday packages that can include premium seating and partner codeshare flights. * Qantas Hotels, Holidays and Tours generated $1.6 billion in booking transaction value in FY2026, underlining the commercial importance of the platform within Qantas Loyalty. (NEWS) SYDNEY, New South Wales, Australia, 2026-Oct-01 - /Travel PR News/ - Qantas Loyalty is preparing a major rebuild of its hotel and holiday booking business, selecting Expedia Group to provide the technology behind Qantas Hotels & Holidays and Jetstar Holidays from the first half of 2027. The partnership shifts the focus from a conventional accommodation booking engine toward a more integrated travel platform. Expedia Group B2B will power the end-to-end experience, giving customers one place to search and book hotels and holiday packages, earn and redeem Qantas Points and manage their trips. Build and integration work is already underway, according to the September 30 partnership announcement, with launch targeted for the first half of 2027. A wider digital role for Hotels & Holidays. The new platform will be built on Expedia Group B2B's Composable Agentic Template, a technology framework designed to let partners assemble travel functionality around their own customer experience. For Qantas, the planned changes include deeper integration into the Qantas App and more self-service options for travellers managing bookings. Machine learning will also be used to generate property and holiday recommendations, while package customers are expected to gain more flexibility in how they combine accommodation with flights. Qantas says the new system will support packages that include premium cabin seating and flights operated by codeshare partners. That makes the project broader than a hotel-platform refresh. The aim is to bring more parts of the journey into a single branded experience while keeping Qantas Points at the centre of how frequent flyers earn and redeem across travel products. A significant part of the Qantas Loyalty business. Hotels and holidays already represent a substantial part of Qantas Loyalty's non-flight activity. In its FY2026 results, Qantas reported $1.6 billion in total transaction value across Hotels, Holidays and Tours bookings, up 3 per cent from the previous year. The same results showed Qantas Frequent Flyer membership reaching 18.9 million, with points redemption rising across the broader loyalty portfolio. A more tightly integrated Hotels & Holidays platform therefore gives Qantas another way to connect flight activity, accommodation bookings and points use within the same customer relationship. Travellers can currently book accommodation through Qantas Hotels and packages through Qantas Holidays. The existing services will continue while the replacement platform is developed. Expedia brings a broader B2B technology stack. For Expedia Group, the agreement adds Qantas to a B2B business that increasingly supplies travel inventory and infrastructure behind other companies' branded customer experiences. Expedia Group B2B has been expanding beyond accommodation into a wider set of trip components, including flights, activities, ground transport, payments and servicing. An Expedia Group B2B update from Explore 2026 outlined the company's push toward connected-trip technology, expanded APIs and AI-supported partner tools. Those capabilities align closely with the Qantas project's emphasis on personalisation, integrated trip management and faster deployment of future features. Jayne Davey, Qantas Loyalty Executive Manager, Business to Consumer, said the partnership is intended to give Qantas access to technology that can support more customised search and booking while providing a foundation for continued product development. Carolina Cabero, SVP Sales at Expedia Group B2B, said the platform is being designed to connect supply, pricing, payments, loyalty and digital experiences within one system while still allowing Qantas to shape the customer-facing product around its own members and partners. Hotel suppliers are part of the technology shift. The agreement also has implications for accommodation partners. Qantas says the new system will introduce more seamless connectivity options for hotel suppliers and give the business access to Expedia Group B2B's continuing technology releases rather than relying on a more static platform. For customers, the most visible changes will come when the new booking experience launches in 2027. For Qantas Loyalty, however, the larger strategic move is happening behind the scenes: consolidating more of the Hotels & Holidays journey onto a technology platform designed to combine accommodation, packages, flights, loyalty and servicing within one digital ecosystem.