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Momondo
URL http://www.momondo.com
Type of site Travel website
Registration not required
Available language(s) English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Owner Momondo ApS
Launched September 2006

Momondo.com is a travel search engine that allows the consumer to compare prices on flights, hotels and car rental. The search engine aggregates results from more than 700 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.[1] In addition to the price comparisons Momondo also offers city guides written by the site's users and by bloggers based in different cities.[2]

The company is Danish and is based in Copenhagen.[3]

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History

Momondo was launched in September 2006 as a flight search engine only. In September 2009 the website was re-launched now also offering city-guides and travel content. Since it has expanded to also offering price comparisons on trains (integrated in the flight search) and it has become a multilingual site that supports English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Turkish and Russian .

Media

In the early stages Momondo was mostly covered by the Danish media, such as DR1[4] and BT[5], 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.[6] Subsequently CNN concluded that Momondo is the best flight search engine for: “Searching far and wide – fast”[7]; and recommendations by CBS[8], ABC[9] and The Daily Telegraph[10], amongst others, has further cemented Momondo’s position in the eye of the consumer. In the summer 2009 Momondo was recommended on Croatian tv,[11] and in October 2009 Momondo won a price test conducted by the Consumer Council of Norway.[12] In December 2009 Momondo's flight search engine won a test conducted by the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang/Dine Penger.[13] In January 2010 Momondo partner, Martin Lumbye, was interviewed in Arthur Frommer's radio show[14], and later in the month Kim Komando recommended Momondo's flight search engine and city guides. [15] In February 2010 Momondo received very positiv reviews from one of the world's largets travel magazines, Travel + Leisure [16], from ShermansTravel.com, [17] Momondo's train search engine was recommended in The Washington Post [18] and Smarter Travel pointed out in a review that Momondo brings new features to metasearch. [19] In March 2010 Momondo was recommended The New York Times. [20]

References

  1. ^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23498345/
  2. ^ http://en.momondo.com/Cityguides.aspx
  3. ^ http://www.momondo.com/About.aspx
  4. ^ http://www.dr.dk/DR1/Rabatten/Indslag/2006/1122114603.html
  5. ^ http://www.bt.dk/article/20060901/REJSER/109010015/1057
  6. ^ http://www.frommers.com/blog/?plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&UID=3ec3ac40-db8a-4d10-a884-acf9ccad0879&plckPostId=Blog%3a3ec3ac40-db8a-4d10-a884-acf9ccad0879Post%3acf218635-2bd2-4a9c-b016-c1ef02274a6e&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest
  7. ^ http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/traveltips/03/05/airline.sites/index.html
  8. ^ http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3953094n
  9. ^ http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/BusinessTravel/story?id=4981032&page=1
  10. ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3673076/The-20-best-travel-websites.html
  11. ^ http://dnevnik.hr/bin/tv/?media_id=60262050
  12. ^ http://forbrukerportalen.no/Tester/2009/slik_finner_du_de_billigste_flybillettene?expandedtopic=1254816573.42
  13. ^ http://www.vg.no/dinepenger/artikkel.php?artid=596537
  14. ^ http://www.wor710.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=4321490
  15. ^ http://www.komando.com/newsletter/CSOTD_1-23-10.htm
  16. ^ http://www.travelandleisure.com/blogs/carry-on/2010/2/8/find-flights-for-less-on-momondocom
  17. ^ http://www.shermanstravel.com/blogs/savvy_flyer/2059/find-great-fares-on-momondocom/
  18. ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020402895.html
  19. ^ http://www.smartertravel.com/blogs/today-in-travel/momondo-brings-new-features-to-metasearch.html?id=4326232
  20. ^ http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/short-hops-low-fares-around-asia/

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