Dohop Sees Surge In Traffic And Revenues

Online, March 3, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Traffic to Icelandic flight search website Dohop.com grew roughly 100% in 2009 to double that of 2008 numbers. Visitors come from all over the world in search of low cost flight connections, hotels, and most recently rental cars.

"This is growth is healthy especially considering the weak world economy and overall slump in world travel" said David Gunnarsson Dohop's marketing manager. "This also tells us that when times are tough, people are are even more focused on finding the best travel deals and that's what Dohop was built to do."

In 2009 Dohop expanded its services to allow its users to search for hotels and rental cars. These, along with other revenue drivers, have contributed to an increase in 2009 revenue from search by 292%, compared to 2008.

Dohop was founded in Iceland in 2004 and has since its inception been committed to helping travelers find the best price and alternative routes to their destinations. Dohop's award winning flight search aims to offer the most complete results possible by searching more than 600 airlines and 50 million scheduled flights between 3000 airports. Dohop also offers a uniquely powerful connecting engine to find money saving connections with low cost airlines.

Dohop offers solutions that enable airlines to promote connected flights without adding significant cost or complexity to the operation as well as information solutions for airports and travel search tools for travel websites. Dohop's growing list of corporate customers include: Emirates, Virgin-Atlantic and Malaysian Airports and the German travel authorities.