Momondo
Encyclopedia
Momondo.com is a Copenhagen
-based travel search engine
that allows consumers to compare prices on flights, hotels and car rental.
The search engine aggregates results from more than 700 travel websites
simultaneously to give an overview of the best offers found.
Momondo does not 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 price comparisons, Momondo also offers city guides written by the site's users and by bloggers
based in different cities.
In November 2010 Momondo co-hosted and sponsored the first European TBEX conference on travel blogging held in Copenhagen.
, Swedish
, Norwegian
, Danish
, Turkish
, Russian and Dutch
.
In April 2011 Momondo was sold to the British/American search engine Cheapflights
, though Momondo is still based in Copenhagen and continues to operate as an autonomous company.
and B.T.
, drastically increasing the number of unique visitors from Denmark.
Gradually, 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. In the summer 2009 Momondo was recommended on Croatian tv, and in October 2009 Momondo won a price test conducted by the Consumer Council of Norway. In December 2009 Momondo's flight search engine won a test conducted by the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang/Dine Penger. In January 2010 Momondo partner, Martin Lumbye, was interviewed in Arthur Frommer's radio show, and later in the month Kim Komando
recommended Momondo's flight search engine and city guides. In February 2010 Momondo received very positiv reviews from one of the world's largets travel magazines, Travel + Leisure
, from ShermansTravel.com, Momondo's train search engine was recommended in The Washington Post
and Smarter Travel pointed out in a review that Momondo brings new features to metasearch. In March 2010 Momondo was recommended by The New York Times
and in April Chicago Tribune
and Los Angeles Times
tested and compared Momondo with other travel search engines. In June 2010 the influential US travel- and technologysite, Tnooz, reviewed Momondo and highlightened that the search engine has trains, planes and Southwest Airlines
. Also in June 2010 Momondo won a test conducted by Family Travel Forum
who had compared different travel search engines. In August 2010 Momondo won a survey in The Sunday Times
who had compared and tested seven of the world's biggest travelsites. In January 2011 Momondo was recommended on CBS News
.
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
-based travel search engine
Web search engine
A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers. The search results are generally presented in a list of results often referred to as SERPS, or "search engine results pages". The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other...
that allows consumers to compare prices on flights, hotels and car rental.
The search engine aggregates results from more than 700 travel websites
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
simultaneously to give an overview of the best offers found.
Momondo does not 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
Kayak.com
KAYAK is a technology company providing online travel tools through its global family of websites and mobile applications. Started by cofounders of Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity, KAYAK allows users to compare information from hundreds of other travel websites in one display when booking travel...
, Mobissimo
Mobissimo
Mobissimo is a travel search engine website based in San Francisco, California. It allows consumers to compare prices on flights, hotels, and car rentals. It aggregates the results from over 180 online travel agencies, consolidators, and ticket vendors to show a side-by-side comparison of the...
, SideStep
SideStep
- Description :SideStep is a metasearch engine for travel: it searches and consolidates results from more than 200 travel websites. The site searches more than 150,000 hotels and 600 airlines in the United States and worldwide...
and Momondo instead of buying tickets from third-party sites that actually sell travel and are dealing directly with the airlines.
In addition to price comparisons, Momondo also offers city guides written by the site's users and by bloggers
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
based in different cities.
In November 2010 Momondo co-hosted and sponsored the first European TBEX conference on travel blogging held in Copenhagen.
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, PortuguesePortuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
, Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
, Norwegian
Norwegian language
Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
, Danish
Danish language
Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...
, Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
, Russian and Dutch
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
.
In April 2011 Momondo was sold to the British/American search engine Cheapflights
Cheapflights
Cheapflights Media Ltd. is a private international online media company based in London and Boston that operates travel websites. Cheapflights Media's sites do not sell flights but publish deals online from hundreds of airlines, low cost airlines and travel operators that fly out of the US, the...
, though Momondo is still based in Copenhagen and continues to operate as an autonomous company.
Media
In the early stages Momondo, was mostly covered by the Danish media, such as DR1DR1
DR1 is a Danish national television channel, produced by the public service broadcaster, DR. It was the first television station to be established in Denmark, and began broadcasting in 1951 – at first only for an hour a day three times a week....
and B.T.
B.T. (tabloid)
B.T. is a Danish tabloid newspaper which offers general news about various subjects such as sports, politics and current affairs.A large, red neon sign displays the B.T. logo at the square Trianglen in Østerbro, a part of Copenhagen....
, drastically increasing the number of unique visitors from Denmark.
Gradually, Momondo has built a broader international following, helped by Frommers.com’s
Frommer's
Frommer's is a travel guidebook series and one of the bestselling travel guides in America. The series began in 1957 with the publication of Arthur Frommer's book, Europe on $5 a Day. Frommer's has expanded to include over 350 guidebooks across 14 series, as well as other media including the award...
October 2007 test comparing different search engines and concluding that Momondo came up with the best offers. Subsequently CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
concluded that Momondo is the best flight search engine for: “Searching far and wide – fast”; and recommendations by CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
, ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
and The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
, amongst others, has further cemented Momondo’s position in the eye of the consumer. In the summer 2009 Momondo was recommended on Croatian tv, and in October 2009 Momondo won a price test conducted by the Consumer Council of Norway. In December 2009 Momondo's flight search engine won a test conducted by the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang/Dine Penger. In January 2010 Momondo partner, Martin Lumbye, was interviewed in Arthur Frommer's radio show, and later in the month Kim Komando
Kim Komando
Kim Komando is the host of an American talk radio program based on the popularity of personal computers, the use of the Internet, and the complexities of consumer electronics. The Kim Komando Show is broadcast and syndicated on over 450 radio stations in the U.S. and two stations in Ontario, Canada...
recommended Momondo's flight search engine and city guides. In February 2010 Momondo received very positiv reviews from one of the world's largets travel magazines, Travel + Leisure
Travel + Leisure
Travel + Leisure is a travel magazine based in New York City, New York. Published 12 times a year, it has 4.8 million readers, according to its corporate media kit. It is put out by American Express Publishing Corporation, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Express Company led by...
, from ShermansTravel.com, Momondo's train search engine was recommended in The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
and Smarter Travel pointed out in a review that Momondo brings new features to metasearch. In March 2010 Momondo was recommended by The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
and in April Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
and Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
tested and compared Momondo with other travel search engines. In June 2010 the influential US travel- and technologysite, Tnooz, reviewed Momondo and highlightened that the search engine has trains, planes and Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines Co. is an American low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas. Southwest is the largest airline in the United States, based upon domestic passengers carried,...
. Also in June 2010 Momondo won a test conducted by Family Travel Forum
Family Travel Forum
The Family Travel Forum is an Internet community for frequent travelers, focusing on families with children. Of the registered members in the community, 75% are women with children....
who had compared different travel search engines. In August 2010 Momondo won a survey in The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...
who had compared and tested seven of the world's biggest travelsites. In January 2011 Momondo was recommended on CBS News
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
.