
Most deals allow you to select from one-night and multiple-night offers. Use the site to book inexpensive hotel accommodations for an upcoming business trip or getaway to visit family. Allow Groupon Getaways to help you find the best deals on international travel. Once you make the purchase through the Groupon website, your gift recipient will have the opportunity to specify their travel dates and book their stay with the hotel or resort offering the deal.

In addition to securing great deals on vacations and hotel stays for your own use, you can purchase offers on as gifts. The deals are offered for specified periods of time, and you can check back daily for new listings. You can find a wide variety of bargains on beach vacations, resort trips, hotel accommodations and other getaway options. Unlike Groupon's traditional daily e-mail deals or its location-based GrouponNow deals, the travel offers are available for purchase for up to six days.Groupon Getaways allows hotels, resorts and other companies to offer special deals to consumers interested in travel. Groupon is teaming up with concert promoter LiveNation on a service to offer discounts on unsold seats for shows in specific markets.Īmong the travel deals offered Tuesday were hotel rooms in Las Vegas ($144 for one night) and Bangkok ($2,086 for five nights). Meanwhile, Groupon is aggressively looking for ways to expand its business beyond traditional local deals, such as restaurants and spas. And Groupon rival of Washington, D.C., has found success offering vacation packages under a program it calls LivingSocial escapes. New York-based travel site Travelzoo also offers local deals in cities such as Chicago. Travel lends itself easily to big discounts, and the lines between daily-deal sites and other online businesses, such as e-commerce or search advertising, are blurring quickly. It addresses several important shifts for Groupon. Groupon Getaways is a joint venture between Chicago-based online deal provider Groupon and online travel broker Expedia of Bellevue, Wash. launched their first travel deals Tuesday, offering discounts on hotel rooms from Toronto to Tahiti.
