Prontohotel
|
Type of site
|
Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Rome, Italy |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Industry | Travel, Hotel |
| Products | Metasearch for hotel prices |
| Website | prontohotel.com |
ProntoHotel is a free hotel travel metasearch engine founded in 2007 with headquarters in Rome, Italy.
The site compares prices for over 550,000 hotels by searching multiple travel booking sites, including Booking.com and Expedia. The site is available in 220 countries and in 20 languages.
ProntoHotel was founded in May 2007 by two Italian experts in online travel and marketing: Paolo Mazzara and Simone Giacco.
Their goal was to meet the increasing needs of travelers to find a simple travel comparison site to help cut down on time spent online researching hotels and rates.
The beta version of ProntoHotel launched in 2008 with a small number of partnerships with online travel agencies and hotel chains in just the big-name European destinations, such as Rome, Paris, London, Berlin, and Amsterdam.
In 2009, the company implemented new software features, including the ability to filter results by a hotel’s location within a particular area of the city, desired price range per night, and proximity to a specific address.
By 2011, the database of hotels grew to over 200,000 and the portal was opened up to additional markets, including Spain (prontohotel.es), France (prontohotel.fr), and Germany (prontohotel.de).
In 2013, ProntoHotel added a number of partner websites and doubled the amount of hotels in its database. The company also created the ProntoHotel Price Index (PHPI), which analyzes the hotel market and issues reports based on time period and region.
In 2014, ProntoHotel was nominated for the World Travel Awards in the Travel Technology category for “World’s Leading Hotel Comparison Website” along with Kayak.com, Hipmunk, HotelsCombined, Momondo, and Trivago. That same year, the site’s database included 550,000 hotels, 20 languages, and 35 currencies.
ProntoHotel operates on its own proprietary hotel metasearch engine software. The system searches the results from a database of 50 partner travel websites (hotel chain websites, independent hotel websites, and Online Travel Agency (OTA)), and aggregates the rates into a condensed list of accommodation options (including hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels, and resorts) that meet the search criteria.
...
Wikipedia