The Expedia Group announced plans to set up a global technology centre in India as part of its enhanced investment in India. The Expedia group's Indian subsidiary companies also moved to a brand new office premise, spread over 42,000 sq feet in Gurgaon.
The facility will primarily house employees working on sales and marketing, research and development, and travel supply support services activities in support of Expedia Group's Expedia-brand, Expedia.co.in, Hotels.com-brand, and Egencia (corporate travel) businesses.
The Gurgaon set-up represents one of the Expedia Group's largest facilities outside of Expedia, Inc.'s Bellevue, Washington corporate headquarters. The new office is the largest facility for the group in Asia Pacific and the fifth largest globally.
Expedia Online Travel Services India Private Limited (Expedia India), the Indian subsidiary of Expedia Inc.also plans to hire 300 people locally by end of 2012 as it strengthens its workforce in the region. As the R&D hub for the region, the new development centre in India will create travel applications for local as well as the global markets.
India will be the only other location besides Bellevue, where the Expedia Group will work on solutions across all brands and platforms. The Gurgaon location will house a balanced mix of teams across operations, search and supply functions along with core common infrastructure teams and data centres.
The new office offers a vibrant and engaging work space with travel themed common areas. At present, the Expedia Group has R&D presence globally in 11 centers in Bellevue, London, Springfield, San Francisco, Geneva, Paris, Prague, Montreal, and now Gurgaon.
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