Skyscanner will integrate Fogg’s search into its site by the end of the year, it says, and will expand the languages beyond English and Spanish to 30 other languages across its network of sites.
Skyscanner is also opening a new office in Barcelona, where all five of Fogg’s full-time staff will be based. Fogg was launched in 2009, and uses natural language for metasearch, helping consumers choose from 300,000 hotels in 180 countries, it says.
So far Edinburgh-based Skyscanner — one of the few mid-to-large-size independents left in the online travel booking space — has focused on its initial mission of flight metasearch and more recently, car rental metasearch.
Read full story at: http://skift.com/2013/09/05/skyscanner-acquires-hotel-search-site-fogg-moves-beyond-flight-search/
