What is Kayak Hotels?
KAYAK Hotel is one of the service offered by Kayak.com, an online travel portal. Travelers can find accommodation of their desire throughout the world by the mean of service. The Company was purchased by the Priceline Group on 21st of May 2013. Its headquarters is located in Stamford, Connecticut. Kayak Hotels have generated the total Revenue of $292.7 million in the financial year of 2012. It was official become a public company on 20th of July, 2012.
KAYAK Hotels Operations
KAYAK Hotels service is handled and managed by the KAYAK Software Corporation. The Online service is available in
More Than twenty international languages. Addition to Kayak, the company also operates other search engines like checkfelix and swoodoo. Kayak Search engine was launched in 2004. The Business was formed after the highly efforts of Steve Hafner and Paul M. English. In 2004, It was incorporated in Delaware as Travel Search Company. It was renamed two times. First in 2004 as Kayak Software Corporation and again in 2011 as KAYAK Software Corporation. Because of its high quality services, the company has received various awards; some of them are Best Apps for Business Travelers, 50 Best Webs of 2009, 10 Budget
Airfare Tools Every Traveler Should Know in 2012, The Webby Awards, Flight Comparison Web award in 2013 and many others.
KAYAK Hotels United States
KAYAK has number of investors in the United States; some of them are General Catalyst Partners, Accel Partners and Oak Investment Partners. The Company had received huge amount of money through these investors in 2007. In the same year, It has purchased a US travel Web, known as SideStep. However, The Company has closed the operations of the in January 2010. KAYAK has also closed or sold many other operations in the United States like www.travelpost.com .