Dohop
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- David Gunnarsson, CEO
- Kristjan Gudni Bjarnason, CTO[1]
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| Available in | English, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish, German |
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| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | UK: Andrew Stuart Weir Paterson 1970, Lord Shane Kelvin 1976, John Mcallister Nicholson 1954; IS: Guðrún Helga Brynleifsdóttir 1954, Frímann Elvar Guðjónsson 1960. |
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| Industry | Travel, Technology, Search Engine |
| URL | www |
| Registration | (kt. 480904-3030) |
| Launched | 2004 |
Dohop is a booking service that focuses on cheap international flights. It began as a successful Icelandic technology startup company, tailoring a solution to the problem of how to stitch together different flights on different airlines, which helps budget travellers. Dohop also offers ConnectSure, a self-transfer protection that covers the traveller in case of a disruption to a connected flight.
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 flights directly to the consumer, but refers the user to an 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.
Dohop also drew income thanks to its technological license on its concept of a search engine. In 2012, Dohop opened an affiliation program. Professionals can set up a Dohop-identified flight search engine on their own website.
