Hotwire is a travel website that offers airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, and vacation packages.

[1][2] Hotwire was launched in 2000, by Karl Peterson, Eric Grosse, Gregg Brockway, and Spencer Rascoff.

[7] In 2004, an internet research firm estimated that through cross-advertising between Hotwire and Expedia, IAC was able to reach a total of an additional 1.5 million unique visitors to both websites monthly.

[13] Hotwire's products are based on online traffic and feature the main categories airline travel, car rental services, hotel reservation and vacation packages.

Hotwire does not identify the participating companies until after the purchaser has paid so as not to directly compete with regular retail sales of the travel partners.

Hotwire reveals the prices and the travel dates of all their products upfront and does not sell via a "bidding" or "auction" model.

[15] In 2014, the company received Travel Weekly's Silver Magellan Award for their mobile app.