Dohop

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Available inEnglish, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish, German
Area served Worldwide
OwnerUK: Andrew Stuart Weir Paterson 1970, Lord Shane Kelvin 1976, John Mcallister Nicholson 1954; IS: Guðrún Helga Brynleifsdóttir 1954, Frímann Elvar Guðjónsson 1960.
Key people
  • David Gunnarsson, CEO
  • Kristjan Gudni Bjarnason, CTO [1]
Industry Travel, Technology, Search Engine
URL www.dohop.com
Registration(kt. 480904-3030)
Launched2004

Dohop is a Booking service that focuses on cheap international flight with an innovative solution for stitching together flight from several providers for the best possible deal for that trip. It began as a successful Icelandic technology startup company, tailoring a solution the to the problem of how to stitch together different flights on different airlines, which helps budget travellers. It began as a startup in 2004, and in 2018, it was sold to Priceline, which at the time also owned the competing booking sites Booking.com and Expedia.

Founded in 2004 and based in Reykjavík, Iceland as a travel search engine to aggregate and link low-cost flight connections, in 2005, Dohop launched the world's first flight planner for low-cost airlines and later expanded it to include all scheduled flights worldwide, [2] amounting to 660 airlines.

Dohop was primarily a long tail aggregation agent that does not sell directly to the consumer, but refers the user to airline's booking engines. Dohop's income comes from pay per click advertising and from selling specialized search engines to airlines and airports. The company also operates an analytics department, offering route network analysis and optimization suggestions to airlines and airports.

In 2006, Travelmole the company won the Web Awards in the category for best technology site, [3] and was selected as one of the Times Magazine 100 best travel sites in 2007. [4]

Dohop also drew its income, thanks to its technological license on this concept of search engine: In 2012, Dohop opens an affiliation program. Professionals can set up a Dohop-identified flight search engine on their own website.

In 2014, Dohop won the World's Leading Flight Comparison Website award at the World Travel Awards [5] and subsequently won the award three years in a row in 2016, [6] 2017, [7] and 2018. [8]

Dohop has since transitioned to becoming a technology provider for the aviation and travel industry, building virtual interline connections for airlines such as easyJet [9] and Air Transat, [10] [11] as well as intermodal technologies connecting easyJet and Deutsche Bahn through Berlin Brandenburg Airport. [12] [13]

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References

  1. ↑ Dohop management Archived 7 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "About Dohop.com". 10 August 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-08-18.
  3. ↑ Travelmole Web Awards 2006 Archived 2011-09-30 at the Wayback Machine (registration required)
  4. ↑ Times Magazine 100 best travel sites
  5. ↑ "World's Leading Flight Comparison Website 2014". World Travel Awards. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  6. ↑ "World's Leading Flight Comparison Website 2016". World Travel Awards. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  7. ↑ "World's Leading Flight Comparison Website 2017". World Travel Awards. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  8. ↑ "World's Leading Flight Comparison Website 2018". World Travel Awards. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  9. ↑ "Worldwide by easyJet". worldwide.easyjet.com. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
  10. ↑ "Connectair by/par Air Transat". connectair.airtransat.com. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
  11. ↑ "Air Transat Launches Virtual Interlining Service". TravelPress. 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
  12. ↑ "Rail + Plane: easyJet Partners With DB For Connected Ticket Sales". Simple Flying. 2021-08-03. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  13. ↑ Nath, Kanchan (2022-09-28). "Thai Vietjet partners with Dohop". Travel Daily. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
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