Opodo is a developing European online travel company specialising in worldwide travel. Founded by a consortium of Europe’s leading airlines - Aer Lingus, Air France, Alitalia, Austrian Airlines, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa and by Amadeus GDS, and travel industry technology provider. Now majority owned by travel technology company Amadeus.
As trust is the crucial and sensitive issue for online shoppers to purchase the tickets, book hotels, it chooses a strong level of encryption from the world’s leading SSL Certificate Authority assuring the public that any information they entered into any Opodo’s web sites remain private and secure. By using all these it doubled its growth.
Opodo operates in nine countries, including Germany where opodo launched its first site in November 2001, the UK which site was launched in January 2002, France where the site was established in april 2002 and in January 2006 opodo launched a site in italy, having also established a presence and Travel link-branded sites in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
Opodo directs the real needs of today’s traveller by offering an unbiased and competitively priced online travel service for world travel, with access to flights from over 65,000 hotel properties over 500 airlines and over 7,000 car hire locations worldwide, as well as travel insurance, package holidays, dynamic packaging, city-breaks, hotels, car rental, event tickets, excursions, ski holidays, cottages, holiday rentals, and cruises. Opodo’s present turnover has reached Euro 1 billion in gross sales.
They have done research to find out the requirements of any visitors of Opodo’s site. This enables the price of flights to be the lowest when compared to others as the research provides access to fares to many of the popular destinations. The site is mainly built for people who are tight on time and need to plan a holiday in a short period of time.
Booking travel through Opodo’s user friendly site is a simple process. Most of the online travel sites fail to provide necessary information and those who visit the site often get confused. Opodo is fully organized to satisfy all the needs of the customers. They plan there site to suit and satisfy the requirements of the user of the site. Here the users can talk to real travel experts who will provide assistance on holiday planning by providing information and advice. Opodo online serves its customers 24 hours a day, it also offers hotels at a cheap rate when compared to other site. All these place Opodo in the leading position in the online travel industry.
Opodo aims to provide the traveller with the information, tools and inspiration they need to go where they want, how they want and when they want. It can be a great help the enjoyment of the traveller and the travellers panning. It gives you access to airfares from over four hundred airlines, thousands of hotel properties and car rental in more than seven thousand locations worldwide.
The name “opodo” was selected because is does not mean anything in any other European languages, thus ensuring that all of the countries treat it as a ‘foreign’ website. “Opodo” is a natural ambigram, with rotational symmetry. The word opodo stand for “OPportunity tO DO”
Company website:
http://www.opodo.co.uk
CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS:
Opodo Limited
Waterfront
Hammersmith Embankment
London W6 9RU
Phone: +44 (0) 870 352 5000