Momondo Group
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Type of site
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Subsidiary |
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| Available in | English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian, Dutch, Czech, Finnish, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian and Chinese |
| Founded | September 2006 |
| Headquarters | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Owner | The Priceline Group |
| Founder(s) | Thorvald Stigsen |
| Key people | Pia Vemmelund, CEO Tore Pein Jensen, CMO |
| Industry | Travel |
| Employees | 250 |
| Slogan(s) | Stay Curious |
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Momondo (stylised momondo) is a travel fare aggregator and travel fare metasearch engine. Momondo also operates a travel information blog, Inspiration. The website is part of the Kayak.com subsidiary of The Priceline Group.
Momondo was developed in Denmark and launched in September 2006.
In March 2011, Cheapflights Media, operator of Cheapflights, a rival online travel agency, invested in momondo.
In January 2014, Momondo launched "momondo places", a free city guide with maps.
In July 2014, Momondo launched its "Trip Finder" tool.
In October 2014, Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm, invested £80m for a majority stake in the company that owned Cheapflights and momondo, valuing it at £132 million.
In June 2015, momondo launched its "Travel Saver Calendar" tool.
In November 2016, Ryanair extended its conflict with screenscraping websites such as Opodo, CheapOair to momondo.
In July 2017, momondo and Cheapflights were acquired by The Priceline Group for $550 million.
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.
In 2010, Travel + Leisure named momondo the best travel website for finding bargain fares.
Momondo was ranked first in Frommer’s list of "The 10 Best Airfare Search Sites."
Momondo received the Best Meta Search Website award in both 2014 and 2015 at the Travolution Awards.
In 2016, momondo was found to be "one of the best travel websites for sourcing travel deals with one of the most intuitive meta search engines", according to Forbes.
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