What the Expedia-Hopper Split Means for Online Travel
The Skift Travel Podcast
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The Rise and Fall of Hopper
Pranavi: Hopper was founded in 2007. It spent nearly a decade building out this huge database of flight information that essentially powered their price prediction tools. In 2016, they pivoted to becoming an OTA, selling flights on their app. They launched their first price-free sphintech product, expanded into selling hotels, car hire, and now private rentals as well. And then in 2021, it launched a B2B arm called Hopper Cloud which is where it powers the travel capabilities of other companies looking to sell travel products on their own platform.
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