Expedia and Hopper Resume Hotel Supply Deal After Bitter Falling Out

Expedia Group is once again supplying hotel inventory to Hopper, almost a year-and-a-half after Expedia abruptly terminated the partnership over stated concerns about Hopper’s fintech offerings, according to sources close to Hopper.

Expedia turned on the hotel supply spigot over the summer. These Expedia-provided hotels first began appearing on Capital One Travel, Hopper’s most important distribution partner.

Expedia is resuming providing hotel inventory to the Hopper app itself, as well, sources said.

Fenced Rates

The hotel inventory that Expedia is providing to Hopper comes at times with “fenced” rates, meaning these are nightly rates that hotels intend to provide to closed groups or in packages, and not openly to consumers, according to one of the sources. This could be a major friction point between Expedia and the hotel industry.

The resumption of the partnership, following a bitter breakup in…