Skyscanner
| Skyscanner Ltd | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Limited |
| founding | 2001 |
| Seat | Edinburgh , Scotland |
| management | Gareth Williams (CEO) |
| sales | 87.2 million euros (2013) |
| Branch | Metasearch engine |
| Website | www.skyscanner.de |
Skyscanner is a meta search engine for flight, hotel and car rental, where you can search for price and location. With other functions such as For example, a cost chart allows users to compare flight prices over specific time periods. However, Skyscanner does not sell these offers directly, rather Skyscanner forwards them to the website of the airline or the online travel agent and receives a commission should the user book a flight.
As an additional service, Skyscanner offers a page with news from the aviation industry and travel tips. Since 2011 Skyscanner has also been offering mobile apps for Android and iOS. The Skyscanner app has already been downloaded 60 million times.
history
Skyscanner was started in 2001 by three friends Gareth Williams, Barry Smith and Bonamy Grimes in a pub . The reason they cited was that they were frustrated not having found cheap flights when planning a ski vacation. The first version appeared in 2002, the following year the first employee was hired and an office was opened in Edinburgh. In addition to a further office in Glasgow and London, there are currently offices in Singapore , Beijing , Shenzhen , Sofia , Budapest and Miami . Since the takeover of the Spanish hotel comparison company Fogg in 2013, there has also been a branch in Barcelona . The website is available in over 30 languages including Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, German and French.
Skyscanner end of 2016 for 1.79 billion was euro bought by Ctrip, the Chinese leader in online travel. Skyscanner's offerings are now linked to the activities of Trip.com , a US online portal that Ctrip acquired for $ 100 million the following year.
technology
Skyscanner integrates the programming interfaces of its partners as far as possible , but also uses web scraping . Most of the programming is done in C and Python .
popularity
Skyscanner has around 30 million visitors per month, the majority of them 16–34 years old, and generates a turnover of around 40 million euros. In the English-language press, Skyscanner received consistently good reviews, the Guardian emphasized that as early as 2005 Skyscanner could "beat much larger agents like Expedia or Travelocity". The Independent also named Skyscanner one of the top nine travel websites. Over the years Skyscanner has won various awards, including a. Queen's Award for Enterprise , Travolution Brand of the Year 2011 and Best Flight Comparison 2010 from Travolution.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Travel search firm Skyscanner aiming high , BBC, February 5, 2014
- ↑ Terms of Use. Skyscanner, July 21, 2017, accessed July 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Discover Skyscanner. Skyscanner, July 21, 2017, accessed July 21, 2017 .
- ↑ independent.co.uk
- ↑ Our Offices . In: Skyscanner Jobs . ( skyscanner.net [accessed July 21, 2017]).
- ↑ Skyscanner buys hotel search firm Fogg . In: BBC News . September 6, 2013 ( bbc.co.uk [accessed July 21, 2017]).
- ↑ Steve O'Hear: Skyscanner's Mobile Apps Hit 10M Downloads, Letting Users Find Cheap Flights On The Go | TechCrunch. TechCrunch, September 18, 2012, accessed July 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Online travel agency Ctrip buys Skyscanner website . Handelsblatt , November 24, 2016; accessed on August 22, 2018
- ↑ Tiny startup Trip.com has been acquired by Chinese travel giant Ctrip, a move that could shake up the travel industry . Business Insider , November 1, 2017; accessed on August 22, 2018
- ↑ skyscanner.net
- ↑ ljresearch.co.uk
- ↑ techcrunch.com
- ↑ theguardian.com
- ↑ telegraph.co.uk
- ↑ skyscanner.net