Hospitality companies established in 2005

Trivago N.V. is a German technology company owned by US-based Expedia Group that specializes in travel and lodging. Its main product is the Trivago online search engine and accommodation booking website that lists prices provided by hotels and other booking websites.

HotelsCombined, a unit of Booking Holdings, is a hotel metasearch engine founded in 2005, with headquarters in Sydney, Australia.

hotel company

hotel chain headquartered in Guangzhou, China

citizenM is a Netherlands-based global hotel chain owned by Marriott International. Founded in 2005, the first CitizenM opened in 2008 at Schiphol, Netherlands. It now operates 37 hotels in 20 cities around the world. In 2025 the group was purchased by Marriott International for $355 million.