Despegar.com Corp. (Despegar) is an online travel company based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was founded in 1999 and operates a booking platform for airline tickets, hotels, package tours, and other travel products in Latin America.
Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) since 2017, Despegar is considered one of the largest online travel portals in the region and is active in 19 markets in the region.[2] In 2025, Prosus completed the purchase of the Argentinian firm.[3]
History
Despegar.com was founded in 1999 by Roberto Souviron, a former student at Duke University. In the years that followed, the company expanded rapidly from Argentina into other Latin American markets. Starting in 2009, it integrated hotel bookings into its platforms alongside flight bookings.[4]
After going public on the NYSE in 2017,