Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) opened a travel store on its Web site Wednesday, featuring booking services and travel status information from travel site Expedia (Nasdaq: EXPE).
The store also offers discounted travel through Expedia rival Hotwire and cruise vacations through National Leisure Group’s The Vacation Store.
Expedia will provide the booking engine for the store.
“It makes perfect sense for Amazon to partner with one of the leading travel sites,” Forrester Research analyst Henry Harteveldt told the E-Commerce Times, “just as they did with Circuit City for electronics.”
Amazon is not going to try to recreate a travel booking search engine on its own, Harteveldt said. According to Harteveldt, Amazon has been working to make itself…
