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Booking Holdings Headquarters & offices · Norwalk, Connecticut
Booking Holdings · Norwalk, Connecticut
Meet in “Tuscany”, grab a coffee in “Panama City”: Booking.com's Amsterdam campus has 28 breakout spaces themed on places around the world.
Booking Holdings is run from a leased office in Norwalk, Connecticut, but its largest office is Booking.com's 65,000 m² campus in Amsterdam, opened in 2023. Here is that campus, the benefits and 25 years of office history — then the pay. Every number from the company's filings, newsroom, careers site and the designers' own project pages.
- 65,000 m²Booking.com campus in Amsterdam (2023)
- 28travel-themed breakout spaces
- 22 weeksparent leave at Booking.com
- 6,500+people under one roof in Amsterdam
Sources: Booking.com newsroom (campus opening, June 28, 2023) · UNStudio and HofmanDujardin project pages · careers.booking.com/benefits · Form 10-K 2025
Companies / United States / Online travel / Booking Holdings
BOOKING.COM'S HEADQUARTERS · AMSTERDAM · 2023
A 65,000 m² campus where every breakout space is a trip
At the tip of Oosterdokseiland, just east of Amsterdam Central Station, UNStudio stacked volumes into balconies, double-height social spaces and glazed stairs and bridges. HofmanDujardin's interior masterplan, “Booking Home”, gave the floors 28 “micro-holiday destination” breakout spaces — New York City, Rio de Janeiro, the Greek Islands, the Amazon — plus three restaurants: a market hall on the 2nd floor, “Five Islands” on the 5th and High Garden with a roof garden on the 9th.
- 65,000 m² (≈ 699,650 sq ft)
- 28 themed breakout spaces
- 11,000+ plants, 7 trees
- BREEAM Excellent
- Architect: UNStudio
- Interiors: HofmanDujardin
UNStudio's atrium, stairs and bridges
UNStudio stacked the floors around a glass-roofed atrium, crossed by timber stairs and bridges with planted terraces.
The staff restaurant by i29
Interior studio i29 designed a 900 m² restaurant floor with striped timber floors, open kitchens and planted dining islands.
Facts: Booking.com newsroom (June 28, 2023) · UNStudio project page “Booking.com City Campus” · HofmanDujardin project page “Booking.com Campus Amsterdam” · i29 project page
Amsterdam and Norwalk
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Booking.com Campus (Booking.com HQ) | Oosterdokskade 163, 1011 DL Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Booking Holdings corporate HQ (leased) | 800 Connecticut Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut 06854, USA |
Source: booking.com “About Booking.com” (registered address) · Form 10-K 2025 cover page and Item 2 · See them on the map ↓
Source: UNStudio project page (surfaces, footprint) · HofmanDujardin project page (developer, contractor) · Booking.com newsroom, June 28, 2023 · Form 10-K 2021, Note 16 (turnkey agreement signed September 2016). Booking.com counts 832 solar panels on the roof; UNStudio's page says 1,500 photovoltaic panels.
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Benefits (Booking.com, may vary by country)
Paid leave for parents.
Time off when a grandchild arrives.
To care for loved ones.
After the loss of a loved one.
Up to 20 days a year, plus home-office furniture and ergonomic support.
Booking Cares: 2 days a year to volunteer and learn.
Headspace for you and your loved ones, plus a global Employee Assistance Program.
Upgrade to Booking.com Genius Level 3, wallet credits and friends-and-family discount vouchers.
Source: careers.booking.com/benefits (2026). Booking.com says benefits may vary by office and country.
How Booking keeps people, in its own words
Booking.com encourages people to spend at least 40% of their time in the office with their team; the rest can be at home.
Up to 20 days a year working from another country.
Free online learning platforms, trainings and workshops, and development and mentorship programs.
Engagement and quick pulse surveys, with results shared with senior management.
The Expat Partner Relocation Programme supports partners of new employees relocating to the Netherlands.
Anniversary leave is part of Booking.com's leave package.
Source: careers.booking.com (Hybrid Way of Working, Benefits, Amsterdam) · Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital Resources
Who works here
employees (Dec 31, 2025)
work full-time
Booking.com employees in Amsterdam (2023)
nationalities at Booking.com
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital Resources · Booking.com newsroom (June 28, 2023) · HofmanDujardin project page (nationalities)
Pay at Booking Holdings
Salary, wages and bonus, worldwide; equity awards are not counted because not all employees receive them. The CEO earned 351 times this amount.
Source: Booking Holdings proxy statement, April 2026 (2025 CEO Pay Ratio)
Booking Holdings doesn't publish pay by age.
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Office history: from one small Amsterdam office to a 65,000 m² campus
- 1996 Bookings.nl starts in a small Amsterdam office
Booking.com began as Bookings.nl, an online booking service for Dutch travellers, started by one man in a small office space in Amsterdam. It hired its first employee in 1999 and had 50 people by 2002.
Source: news.booking.com, “Our Story” and company boilerplate (“Established in 1996 in Amsterdam”)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1997–2001 priceline.com, Connecticut
Jay Walker launched priceline.com in 1997. By early 2001 its executive offices filled about 100,000 sq ft (≈ 9,290 m²) of leased space in Norwalk, Connecticut, while the network operations center was moving there from space in Stamford sublet from Walker Digital.
Source: bookingholdings.com History · Form 10-K for 2000, Item 2
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2002 92,000 sq ft in Norwalk
Executive, administrative and operating offices and the network operations center were in about 92,000 sq ft (≈ 8,547 m²) of leased space in Norwalk.
Source: Form 10-K for 2001, Item 2
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2005–06 Booking.com joins — 7,000 sq ft in Amsterdam
Priceline acquired Booking.com (Bookings) and combined it with Active Hotels. Bookings leased about 7,000 sq ft (≈ 650 m²) in Amsterdam.
Source: bookingholdings.com History (2005) · news.booking.com “Our Story” (gives 2006) · Form 10-K for 2005, Item 2
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2008–2011 Amsterdam overtakes Norwalk
Booking.com B.V. leased about 102,000 sq ft in Amsterdam at the start of 2009; three years later it leased about 458,000 sq ft in Amsterdam and 39 other countries. Norwalk shrank to about 70,000 sq ft.
Source: Form 10-K for 2008 and 2011, Item 2
Booking.com office at Rembrandtplein, 2017 · Romaine / CC0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2016 A contract for a new headquarters
Booking.com leased about 258,000 sq ft (≈ 23,969 m²) in Amsterdam. In September 2016 the company signed a €270 million turnkey agreement to build an office building for Booking.com's future headquarters in the Netherlands.
Source: Form 10-K for 2016, Item 2 · Form 10-K for 2021, Note 16
The campus under construction, January 2023 · Ceescamel / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2023 Booking.com Campus opens on Oosterdokseiland
On June 28, 2023 the 65,000 m² campus officially opened, bringing all of Booking.com's more than 6,500 Amsterdam employees into one building for the first time in over a decade. Booking.com's registered address changed from Herengracht 597 to Oosterdokskade 163.
Source: Booking.com newsroom (June 28, 2023) · UNStudio project page · booking.com legal documents (2023 business travel agreement; About Booking.com)
Booking.com Campus, 2023 · Photo: Hufton+Crow / UNStudio
| Annual report | HQ space (sq ft) | m² | As described |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-K 2005 | 7,000 | 650 | Bookings, Amsterdam (leased) |
| 10-K 2008 | 102,000 | 9,476 | Booking.com B.V., Amsterdam (leased) |
| 10-K 2014 | 202,000 | 18,766 | Booking.com HQ, Amsterdam (leased) |
| 10-K 2016 | 258,000 | 23,969 | Booking.com HQ, Amsterdam (leased) |
| Campus 2023 | ≈ 699,650 | 65,000 | Booking.com Campus, Oosterdokseiland |
Map: how the headquarters moved
Two headquarters an ocean apart: the group is run from Norwalk, Connecticut, while Booking.com — the business that earns most of the money — moved across central Amsterdam to its own campus beside Central Station in 2023.
- 1 · 2000Norwalk, Connecticut — priceline.com's executive offices; today Booking Holdings' corporate HQ at 800 Connecticut Avenue
- 2 · until 2023Herengracht 597, Amsterdam — Booking.com's registered address before the campus
- 3 · 2023Booking.com Campus, Oosterdokskade 163, Amsterdam — Booking.com's headquarters today, at the tip of Oosterdokseiland
Addresses: Form 10-K (2000 and 2025) · booking.com legal documents and About page · Booking.com newsroom
What Booking Holdings does
Booking Holdings runs online travel and restaurant brands — Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable. Most of its money comes from Booking.com, which is based in Amsterdam: revenue attributed to a Dutch entity was $21.7 billion of the $26.9 billion total in 2025.
Brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable. Revenue is reported by type.
Where the money came from · revenue by type, 2025
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Consolidated Statements of Operations and Note 17 (geographic information)
Source: Form 10-K 2025
Growth: revenue vs. people
$10.7B → $26.9B
18,500 → 24,300
Calendar years. Revenue and year-end employees (approximate): Form 10-K for each year, 2016–2025. The 2020 and 2021 reports both give about 20,300 employees. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Chief Executive Officer and President since 2017; also CEO of Booking.com since 2019.
Named Chief Executive Officer of Priceline in 2013.
Named Chief Executive Officer of Priceline in 2002; later Chairman and Executive Chairman.
priceline.com was launched in 1997 by founder Jay Walker. Booking.com began in 1996 as Bookings.nl in Amsterdam.
Source: bookingholdings.com History · news.booking.com “Our Story” · Proxy statement 2026
Booking Holdings: questions people ask
Where is Booking Holdings' headquarters?
Booking Holdings leases its corporate headquarters in Norwalk, Connecticut, at 800 Connecticut Avenue. Its largest office is the headquarters of Booking.com in Amsterdam.
Source: Form 10-K 2025, cover page and Item 2
Where is Booking.com's headquarters?
At the Booking.com Campus, Oosterdokskade 163 in Amsterdam, at the tip of Oosterdokseiland just east of Central Station. It officially opened on June 28, 2023.
Source: booking.com About page · Booking.com newsroom
Who designed Booking.com's Amsterdam campus?
UNStudio designed the building. HofmanDujardin was lead interior architect and wrote the interior masterplan; areas were designed by firms including Linehouse, Studio Modijefsky, i29, CBRE Design and UNStudio.
Source: UNStudio and HofmanDujardin project pages
How big is the Booking.com campus?
65,000 m² (about 699,650 sq ft) of office space for more than 6,500 employees. UNStudio gives a total building surface of 72,500 m² on a 6,000 m² footprint.
Source: Booking.com newsroom · UNStudio project page
What is inside the Booking.com campus?
28 “micro-holiday destination” breakout spaces themed on places such as New York City, Rio de Janeiro and the Greek Islands, three restaurants (the Market, Five Islands and High Garden with a roof garden), more than 11,000 plants and seven trees, and underground parking for more than 2,500 bicycles.
Source: HofmanDujardin project page · Booking.com newsroom
Can the public visit the Booking.com campus?
The ground floor has about 1,500 m² of restaurant and leisure space open to the public, including the A Beautiful Mess restaurant run with Refugee Company.
Source: Booking.com newsroom (June 28, 2023)
Does Booking.com allow remote work?
Booking.com says it is “not a remote working company, but we are flexible”. It encourages employees to spend at least 40% of their working time in the office, and allows up to 20 days a year working from abroad.
Source: careers.booking.com (Hybrid Way of Working, Benefits)
What benefits does Booking.com offer?
Among them: 22 weeks of parent leave, 10 days of grandparent leave, 10 days of care leave, up to 4 weeks of bereavement leave, 2 volunteering days a year and free Headspace. Benefits may vary by country.
Source: careers.booking.com/benefits
How many people work at Booking Holdings?
About 24,300 at the end of 2025 — about 2,900 in the United States and 21,400 elsewhere.
Source: Form 10-K 2025
How much do Booking Holdings employees make?
The median employee's total compensation was $101,004 in 2025 (salary, wages and bonus; equity not included). The CEO's pay was 351 times that.
Source: Proxy statement 2026
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