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ProntoHotel is a free hotel travel metasearch engine founded in 2007 with headquarters in Rome, Italy. The site compares prices for over 550,000 hotels by searching multiple travel booking sites, including Booking.com and Expedia. The site is available in 220 countries and in 20 languages. ==History== ProntoHotel was founded in May 2007 〔(ProntoHotel ), ''CrunchBase'', Retrieved on 14 October 2014.〕 by two Italian experts in online travel and marketing: Paolo Mazzara and Simone Giacco.〔(About ProntoHotel ).〕 Their goal was to meet the increasing needs of travelers to find a simple travel comparison site to help cut down on time spent online researching hotels and rates.〔(Travel Comparison Sites ), ''Review Centre''Retrieved on 13 October 2014.〕 The beta version of ProntoHotel launched in 2008 〔(Statistics Summary for ProntoHotel.com ),’Alexa’. Retrieved on 14 October 2014.〕 with a small number of partnerships with online travel agencies and hotel chains in just the big-name European destinations, such as Rome, Paris, London, Berlin, and Amsterdam. In 2009, the company implemented new software features, including the ability to filter results by a hotel’s location within a particular area of the city, desired price range per night, and proximity to a specific address. By 2011,〔(Seven New Companies with Impressive Ideas on Travelling ), 6 December 2011. Retrieved on 14 October 2014.〕 the database of hotels grew to over 200,000 and the portal was opened up to additional markets, including Spain (prontohotel.es), France (prontohotel.fr), and Germany (prontohotel.de). In 2013, ProntoHotel added a number of partner websites and doubled the amount of hotels in its database. The company also created the ProntoHotel Price Index (PHPI), which analyzes the hotel market and issues reports based on time period and region. In 2014, ProntoHotel was 〔(ProntoHotel in lizza per i World Travel Awards, unica italiana con Alitalia ), Travel NoStop, 16 July 2014. Retrieved on 14 October 2014.〕 nominated for the World Travel Awards 〔(World Travel Awards ), Retrieved on 14 October 2014.〕 in the Travel Technology category for “World’s Leading Hotel Comparison Website”〔(Travel Technologys Leading Hotel Comparison Website 2014 ), Retrieved on 15 October 2014.〕 along with Kayak.com, Hipmunk, HotelsCombined, Momondo, and Trivago. That same year, the site’s database included 550,000 hotels, 20 languages, and 35 currencies. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prontohotel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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