Expedia.com Expedia® Corporate Travel Introduces TripController™, the First On-Demand Travel Approval and Auditing Solution

BELLEVUE, Wash. – March 21, 2005 – Expedia® Corporate Travel, a complete-service travel management company operated by Expedia, Inc., today introduced TripController™, the first on-demand pre-trip approval and auditing solution of its kind for corporate travel customers. Robust and customizable, TripController™ is built into Expedia® Corporate Travel’s technology platform, and offers companies options for automated trip approval along with highly configurable auditing features. In addition, TripController™ can assist companies in addressing their travel best-practices with regard to internal control assessment requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

TripController™ can improve productivity and efficiency for companies that desire an automated trip approval process over manual and often costly methods still quite common within the corporate travel industry. Travel managers can easily configure TripController™ to support varying company procedures and processes by division, department or group. TripController™ even allows for approval checks throughout the entire booking process. The auditing capabilities of TripController™ also enable companies to view individual itineraries and data for real-time review to ensure policies are being followed and identify any fraudulent activities. The information is securely stored for future retrieval, and trending analysis.

For no additional charge, TripController™ is integrated with Expedia® Corporate Travel’s reporting and policy control features that encourage and manage appropriate booking behavior and compliance. This allows travel managers to easily find user profiles and travelers’ itineraries, instantly conduct a detailed audit or report of any trip or transaction they choose, and configure the policy controls and approval checks to match their company’s trip authorization needs. The entire authorization and post-booking audit process for trip transactions, expenditures and reports is also automated, with a workflow driven entirely by the product rather than via manual methods.

“Our Expedia Corporate Travel platform creates a technology-enhanced safety net to help companies proactively monitor, manage and automatically document the constant flow of information and transactions related to their corporate travel program,