Dohop

{{Short description|Icelandic technology company}}

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| industry = Travel, Technology, Search Engine

| area_served = Worldwide

| url = {{URL|www.dohop.com}}

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| registration = (kt. 480904-3030)

| language = English, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish, German

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| owner = UK: Andrew Stuart Weir Paterson 1970, Lord Shane Kelvin 1976, John Mcallister Nicholson 1954; IS: Guðrún Helga Brynleifsdóttir 1954, Frímann Elvar Guðjónsson 1960.

| key_people = {{hlist|David Gunnarsson, CEO|Kristjan Gudni Bjarnason, CTO[http://about.dohop.com/ Dohop management] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110407224329/http://about.dohop.com/ |date=7 April 2011 }}}}

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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.

History

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,{{cite web |url=http://www.dohop.com/about/ |title=About Dohop.com |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090818121551/http://www.dohop.com/about/ |date=10 August 2009 |archivedate=2009-08-18}} 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.

Recognition

In 2006, the company won Travelmole's Web Awards in the category for best technology site,[http://www.travelmole.com/stories/109384.php Travelmole Web Awards 2006] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930170007/http://www.travelmole.com/stories/109384.php |date=2011-09-30 }} (registration required) and was selected as one of the Times Magazine 100 best travel sites in 2007.[http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/essentials/article1550075.ece Times Magazine 100 best travel sites]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{Dead url|date=May 2024}}

In 2014, Dohop won the World's Leading Flight Comparison Website award at the World Travel Awards{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldtravelawards.com/award-travel-technologys-leading-flight-comparison-website-2014 |title=World's Leading Flight Comparison Website 2014 |website=World Travel Awards |language=en-gb |access-date=2019-03-25}} and subsequently won the award three years in a row in 2016,{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldtravelawards.com/award-travel-technologys-leading-flight-comparison-website-2016|title=World's Leading Flight Comparison Website 2016|website=World Travel Awards|language=en-gb|access-date=2019-03-25}} 2017,{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldtravelawards.com/award-travel-technologys-leading-flight-comparison-website-2017|title=World's Leading Flight Comparison Website 2017|website=World Travel Awards|language=en-gb|access-date=2019-03-25}} and 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldtravelawards.com/award-travel-technologys-leading-flight-comparison-website-2018|title=World's Leading Flight Comparison Website 2018|website=World Travel Awards|language=en-gb|access-date=2019-03-25}}

Dohop has since transitioned to becoming a technology provider for the aviation and travel industry, building virtual interline connections for airlines such as easyJet{{Cite web|title=Worldwide by easyJet|url=https://worldwide.easyjet.com/|access-date=2021-11-29|website=worldwide.easyjet.com|language=en}} and Air Transat,{{Cite web|title=Connectair by/par Air Transat|url=https://connectair.airtransat.com/|access-date=2021-11-29|website=connectair.airtransat.com|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2021-11-23|title=Air Transat Launches Virtual Interlining Service|url=https://www.travelpress.com/air-transat-launches-virtual-interlining-service/|access-date=2021-11-29|website=TravelPress|language=en-US}} as well as intermodal technologies connecting easyJet and Deutsche Bahn through Berlin Brandenburg Airport.{{Cite web |last=Nath |first=Kanchan |date=2022-09-28 |title=Thai Vietjet partners with Dohop |url=https://www.traveldailymedia.com/thai-vietjet-partners-with-dohop/ |access-date=2022-10-10 |website=Travel Daily |language=en-US}}

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