Skift Take
If you thought Priceline was the largest publicly traded travel company in the world by market cap, you'd be very wrong. Two Taiwanese airlines and a global hotel and casino business boast greater bragging rights.
Editor's Note: Please read The real 15 largest travel companies of 2013 for a corrected version of this story.
What are the names of the 15 largest publicly traded travel companies in the world?
Priceline, which has been signing up hotels and selling room reservations faster than anyone else, assuredly tops the list, right?
Or could it be TUI Travel or Thomas Cook, with their millions of vacation-package customers and private fleets of aircraft?
How about American Express? It indeed operates one of the world's largest travel agencies, but American Express is essentially a credit card company, and the relative diminutive nature of its travel business keeps it off the Skift list of the top 15 largest publicly traded travel companies around the globe.
Your guesses about which companies make the top 15 likely are off the mark, and the correct answers defy conventional wisdom.
Skift compiled a list of the 15 largest publicly trade
