Momondo

Momondo.com is a travel search engine that allows the consumer to compare prices on flights, package tours, hotels, car rental and trains. The search engine aggregates results from more than 550 travel websites simultaneously to within seconds give an overview of the best offers found. Momondo doesn’t sell tickets; instead it shows the consumer where to buy at the best prices and links to the supplier. It is free of charge to use Momondo, which receives commission from sponsored links and advertising. In 2007 NBC Today’s Travel recommended that when it comes to finding the best offers on flights the consumer should go to sites like Kayak, Mobissimo, SideStep and Momondo instead of buying tickets from third-party sites that actually sell travel and are dealing directly with the airlines. In addition to the price comparisons Momondo also offers travel content written by bloggers based in different cities.

The company is Danish and is based in Copenhagen.

History

Momondo was launched in September 2006 as a flight search engine only. In September 2007 the website was re-launched now also offering city-guides and travel content. Since it has expanded to also offering price comparisons on package tours, hotels, car rental, trains and it has become a multilingual site that supports English, German, French; Italian; Spanish; Portuguese; Turkish; Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.

Media

In the early stages Momondo was mostly covered by the Danish media, such as DR1 and BT, drastically increasing the number of unique visitors from Denmark. Gradually more, Momondo has built a broader international following, helped by Frommers.com’s October 2007 test comparing different search engines and concluding that Momondo came up with the best offers. Subsequently CNN concluded that Momondo is the best flight search engine for: “Searching far and wide – fast”; and recommendations by CBS, ABC and The Daily Telegraph, amongst others, has further cemented Momondo’s position in the eye of the consumer.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/