Momondo

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Momondo
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Type of site
Subsidiary
Available inEnglish, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian, Dutch, Czech, Finnish, Estonian, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian and Chinese
FoundedSeptember 2006; 19 years ago (2006-09)
HeadquartersCopenhagen, Denmark
OwnerBooking Holdings
FounderThorvald Stigsen
Key peopleTore Pein Jensen (CMO KAYAK & Managing Director Momondo A/S)
Steve Hafner (CEO KAYAK)
Peer Bueller (CFO KAYAK)
IndustryTravel
URLmomondo.com

Momondo (stylised momondo) is a travel fare aggregator and travel fare metasearch engine. momondo was founded in Denmark and is today managed by KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings.

History

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momondo was developed in Denmark and launched in September 2006.

In March 2011, Cheapflights Media, operator of Cheapflights, a rival online travel agency, acquired momondo.[1][2]

In 2011, momondo launched its app for iPhone and Android.[3]

Cheapflights Media changed its name to Momondo Group in 2012.[4]

In January 2014, momondo launched "momondo places", a free city guide with maps.[5]

In July 2014, momondo launched its "Trip Finder" tool.[6]

In October 2014, Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm, invested £80m for a majority stake in the Momondo Group, the company that owned the Cheapflights and momondo brands, valuing it at £132 million.[7]

In June 2015, momondo launched its "Travel Saver Calendar" tool.[8]

In 2016, momondo launched “Anywhere Search”.[9]

In July 2017, the Momondo Group, owner of the momondo and Cheapflights brands, was acquired by Booking Holdings for $550 million.[10]

Marketing

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In 2016, momondo launched an ad campaign called "The DNA Journey" in partnership with Ancestry.com. momondo invited 67 participants from around the world to take a DNA test to find out more about their ancestry. The results were revealed on camera in a group setting, with the video uploaded to YouTube.[11][12] The campaign won 43 awards, including seven Cannes Lions and four Clio awards.

In 2019, momondo launched a campaign called “The World Piece”. Among 6,550 applicants, 61 participants from 61 countries got individual, yet connected single-lined tattoos, designed by tattoo artist Mo Ganji. The participants then met to film in London, resulting in a film uploaded to Youtube. The campaign won 3 awards, including two Lovie awards.   

Awards

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In 2010, Travel + Leisure named momondo the best travel website for finding bargain fares.[13]

momondo was ranked first in Frommer’s list of "The 10 Best Airfare Search Sites".[14]

momondo received the Best Meta Search Website award in both 2014 and 2015 at the Travolution Awards.[15][16]

In 2017, the Telegraph named momondo the best flight comparison website for multi-city and mobile.[17]

The same year, momondo won the Google Material Design Award for App innovation.[18]

In two years in a row, 2019 and 2020, momondo was awarded a Wilhelmina Skog Award for best meta travel site.[19]

In 2020, momondo won Focus Money Awards for top flight search engine, top flight search, top website, top flight deals, top customer service, and top value.

References

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