eyefortravel.com - Travel Distribution News, Events and Analysis: "The idea of setting up Dohop.com originated in late 2003 when one of the founders found the entire experience of a making a travel plan online time consuming and complicated...
What are the salient and unique features of your online search offerings?
From travelers' viewpoint dohop is unique in its ability to quickly identify possible flight connections based on low-cost flights in Europe. From the airlines' viewpoint dohop's focus on best itinerary rather than lowest price along with our super low look-up to link-through ratio makes us different.
Kindly share info on proprietary technology and what factors did you take into consideration before developing this technology?
Considering that the team is made up of people with backgrounds in software engineering and information technology it was very natural for us to develop what we needed in-house. It is our goal to be a technology leader in travel search and this would not be possible if we would outsource the difficult and complicated bits.
Which markets according to you are more attractive as far usage of dohop.com and such services in concerned?
The N-American market is currently the largest market for travel search. However, for us starting a new travel search company, the European market was just the right size and at the right stage for us to join.
The APAC market is also very exciting and we look forward to entering there one day.
What new trends have you witnessed as far as online buying pattern for low-cost airlines ticket is concerned?
Not sure if I have witnessed a previously unknown trend in online buying patterns for low-cost airline tickets. But recently the travel search engines have grown a lot faster than I anticipated. In the last three months it appears that total visitor traffic has doubled at the dozen or so travel search engines that we keep an eye on. Based on Statbrain.com (a web site that estimates the traffic of other websites) the leading travel search engines taken together attracted 1.4 million visitors per day in August, up from 0.6 million visitors per day in June. We need more time to see if this is just a seasonal swing.
What are plans for offering search options other than low-cost airline?
We have been working on expanding our search engine to include flights with traditional airlines. A hotel search engine is also under development and we will later be adding specialized search engines for other travel services such as rental cars, packaged tours, cruises, trains etc.
What are the plans for future?
With the initial development phase behind us, it is time to directing more energy towards building our user base and revenue streams. We have recently doubled the development team and added more travel know-how to the business side of the company. For the next 12 months we will be focusing on growing the company, aiming to make dohop.com the best travel search engine for Europe."
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