Venere.com

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Venere Net Srl
legal form Società a responsabilità limitata
founding 1995
resolution 2016
Seat Rome , ItalyItalyItaly 
management Johan Svanstrom (President)
Number of employees 133 (2014)
sales 85.1 million euros (2014)
Branch Tourism / online travel agency
Website de.venere.com

Venere Net Srl (in German Venus ) was a branded Venere.com occurring in the market Italian online travel agency worldwide for booking accommodation. The company was founded in 1995 as Società a responsabilità limitata based in Rome . In 2008 Venere.com was of Expedia Inc. adopted. In the country of origin, Italy, the portal was still one of the 1000 most visited websites in the country in 2015.

In 2013 Venere Net Srl had an annual turnover of 105.3 million euros with 145 employees, in 2014 it was 83.1 million euros with 133 employees.

The company logo was based on the painting The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli .

history

In February 1995 Venere Net Srl was founded. In 2001 the joint stock company Venere Net SpA was founded with international offices in London and Paris . In 2006 the private equity company Advent International took over 60% of the shares. In 2008 Expedia Inc. acquired 100% of the shares in Venere.com. In September 2015, a business-to-business platform for online travel agencies was set up. In November 2016, Venere announced the discontinuation of the booking platform effective December 1, and for further bookings, the company's website refers to the Expedia subsidiary Hotels.com .

criticism

Stiftung Warentest rated the travel portal as problematic. Since this is a foreign portal, in some cases no German law applies.

In a test by the German Society for Consumer Studies (DtGV), the portal was rated 3.6 (sufficient). Criticisms, restaurants or non-smokers could not be included in the search.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Expedia Leadership (English) . (No longer available online.) Expedia, Inc. , archived from the original on July 5, 2017 ; accessed on September 14, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.expediainc.com
  2. ↑ a b c VENERE NET SRL (p.iva) - ROMA (RM). In: reportaziende.it. Retrieved December 13, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Expedia acquires Venere but what does it mean? ( Memento from July 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hotel Blogs , July 17, 2008 (English).
  4. ↑ venere.com Site Overview. In: alexa.com. December 10, 2015, accessed December 13, 2015 .
  5. ↑ About us - Our history. (No longer available online.) In: venere.com. Archived from the original on May 27, 2005 ; accessed on December 13, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.venere.com
  6. ↑ Advent takes majority stake in Venere.com (English), in Alt Assets from December 1, 2006
  7. ↑ Expedia takes over booking portal Venere . In: Computerwoche , March 13, 2009.
  8. ↑ Venere grows through travel agencies (Italian) in l'agenzia di viaggi from June 17, 2015
  9. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/venerecom/photos/a.135474893400.103871.19602968400/10154330032788401/
  10. ↑ Online accommodation portals in the test: search okay, advice bad . In: Spiegel Online , August 27, 2015.
  11. ↑ Hotel booking portals - which one is the best? In: Picture , June 27, 2013.