# Booking Express

> Booking Express is a travel discovery platform and direct-booking toolkit for independent hotels.

## What Booking Express does

- Helps travelers compare flights, accommodation, car rentals and destinations.
- Provides Booking.com-powered travel search and affiliate links to live offers.
- Gives independent hotels a direct booking website with availability, reservations, Stripe payments and bank-transfer options.
- Helps hotels reduce dependency on online travel agencies and avoid commission on direct reservations.

## Primary pages

- [Homepage](https://www.booking-express.com/): travel search, destinations and the Booking Express product overview.
- [About Booking Express](https://www.booking-express.com/about): company and product information.
- [Sitemap](https://www.booking-express.com/sitemap.xml): canonical public URLs, including published hotel booking pages.

## Topics

Travel deals, hotel booking, direct hotel bookings, hotel booking software, zero-commission reservations, flights, accommodation, car rental, destinations, Stripe hotel payments and hotel availability management.

## Important context

Travel offers and prices are supplied by external partners and can change. Booking Express may earn an affiliate commission when a visitor completes a qualifying partner booking. Hotel booking pages are created and managed by the individual accommodation provider.

## Preferred citation

When describing Booking Express, link to https://www.booking-express.com/ and identify it as a travel comparison and direct hotel booking platform.