Full-Time
Posted on 1/13/2025
Travel search engine for price comparison
Senior, Expert
Glasgow, UK
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Skyscanner is a travel search engine that helps users find and compare prices for flights, hotels, and car rentals. It works by aggregating data from various travel providers, allowing users to see a wide range of options in one place. Users can enter their travel details, and Skyscanner uses advanced algorithms to provide real-time price comparisons, making it easier for travelers to find the best deals. Unlike many competitors, Skyscanner focuses on a user-friendly interface and operates on a business model that earns revenue through affiliate marketing and advertising, receiving commissions from travel service providers for bookings made through its platform. The goal of Skyscanner is to make travel planning more efficient and cost-effective for everyone.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$167.6M
Headquarters
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Founded
2003
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Often it’s not only the Center Stage discussion that catches the attention of The Phocuswright Conference audience, but also the conversations happening on the sidelines.The recent event in Fort Lauderdale was no exception with much informal talk about the lack of innovation in travel and how it seems mostly about incremental developments and evolution.This is probably more true for metasearch than other segments of the industry. During the Innovation Dilemma session, the bosses of Skyscanner and Trivago shared not dissimilar approaches to innovation and why agile development, sprints and squads are important.But it also depends on the definition of innovation, according to Skyscanner chief executive John Mangelaars, who stressed there is still a significant amount of work to do to improve the user experience and that those improvements are a big deal for consumers.Meanwhile, Trivago’s chief Johannes Thomas would rather see rapid experimentation over shorter periods of time than waiting six months or a year for something that ends up not working.“It’s as simple as you click the hotel name and instead of going to the hotel information, we send you to the rates where you improve the comparison rates, so small changes can make a big difference.”The conversation also focused on artificial intelligence and the advent of generative AI. Thomas talked about the need for evolution in the search experience and the current search box but said he doesn’t believe a chatbot experience is the way forward because “travel needs inspiration, it needs a visual experience.”. . Get a dose of digital travel in your inbox each day
Ahead of Scotland's four international matches in North and South America, leading travel brand Skyscanner have partnered with Scottish Rugby for the Skyscanner Americas Tour.
Maison Sport, an online platform connecting ski enthusiasts with professional instructors, has landed just over £3 million in funding.The investment, which has come from an unnamed private investment company and angels, will help the company expand its offering of lessons in line with what it calls the “surging demand for personalized and professional skiing and snowboarding experiences, revolutionizing the way ski instructors and ski schools operate.”Maison Sport, which is based in the United Kingdom, is also looking to collaborate more with travel agents as part of its growth strategy, enabling them to sell its products via affiliate links or application programming interface (API) integration. . Get a dose of digital travel in your inbox each day
OAG, a premier data analytics firm in the global travel sector, recently revealed the appointment of Shane Corstorphine, a former Skyscanner executive, as a non-executive director.
Skyscanner has recently published its Horizons report on travel and booking trends going into 2024.
Many who have left the travel industry often end up back in the industry because they love its ever-changing nature, the people and the dynamics.Filip Filipov, a former vice president of Skyscanner, left travel more than four years ago, and is now back as chief operations officer of airline data specialist OAG.He joined us in the PhocusWire studio during The Phocuswright Conference in November to discuss what he has observed about the industry from the outside looking in.New LinkFilipov spoke about how some of the same challenges persist as well as the pace of innovation generally.He went on to discuss the "paradigm shift in the usage of data" that he is seeing and how projects that were being talked about five years ago are now happening.Filipov also said he's watching to see how improved access to, and usage of, data will be applied to the travel B2C and B2B worlds going forward, especially as AI developments take hold.He also touched on AI agents in travel and said he doesn't believe they will proliferate that quickly."The missing component here is nailing the customer journey and having enough data to actually power it. The more information you have the better the experience you will give."Watch the full interview below.Executive Interview: An outside perspective on travelVIDEO