Site59.com

Site59 is an online travel company that specializes in providing the best deals for last minute travelers. Launched in May 2000, Site59 provides affordable weekend getaways. All the trip planning is done for you by the company, so you can get away at a moment's notice. Site59's packaging technology constantly searches for unsold airline seats, hotel rooms, and rental cars and makes them available to users at a low price. Users can book flights up to three hours before departure for domestic trips and five hours for international.

Site59 assembles inventory from thousands of industry suppliers. Site59 also works with other travel partners including Travelocity, AOL Travel, CheapTickets, Yahoo! Travel, American Airlines Vacations, Delta Air Lines Vacations, and Continental Airlines Vacations. The travel teams also research the web and come up with spontaneous trip ideas for users. Using dynamic packaging technology, Site59 manages to provide deals to consumers from two weeks up to 3 hours before departure. Hotel rates are packaged with discounted flights, so rates are never exposed to the customer.

In March 2002, Travelocity acquired Site59 for $43 million. Site59’s patent-pending system assembles inventor from over 4000 industry partners – including major airlines, hotel companies, and car rental companies in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Europe, Central and South America.