Skyscanner Is Seeing Growth in Its Hotel and Car Rental Business
Photo Credit: Skyscanner has seen revenue growth from hotel and car rental searches. This promotional image from the company highlights its flight, hotel, and car rental search capabilities. Skyscanner
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While it's interesting to note Skyscanner's growth in hotels and car hire, commission from flight searches is still the source of most of its revenue. It seems likely that the company will look to take a bigger slice of the airline market rather than push too hard into other areas.
As the name suggests, Skyscanner has almost always been about flight metasearch but its latest set of results show how much it is improving its offering in other areas.
The company collected revenues totalling $205.7 million (£158.3 million) in 2016, a rise of 44 percent on the previous year. Of this total the company’s hotel and car hire products made up 9 percent, up from 6 percent.
While this is still a relatively small amount — only $1
