Global InformationWimdu information
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| Headquarters | Berlin |
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| Owner | HomeToGo Group Rocket Internet |
| URL | wimdu |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | March 2011 |
| Current status | Online |
| Written in | Ruby on Rails |
| Part of a series on |
| Homestays |
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| Hospitality exchange services |
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| Hospitality for work |
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| Hospitality for money |
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| Home exchange and others |
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Wimdu, powered by HomeToGo, is an online marketplace for booking lodging, accessible by website and mobile app for iOS and Android.[1] The company does not own any lodging; it is merely a broker and receives commissions from every booking.[2][3][4] It is set up as a "clone" of similar websites.[5][6] Wimdu searches and redirects users to the website that has the relationship with the lodging provider such as Expedia, Booking.com, HomeAway, Vrbo, Hotels.com, TripAdvisor, FlipKey, and Airbnb.
In 2015, the most popular locations booked on Wimdu were: Paris, Rome, London, Amsterdam, New York City, Lisbon, Berlin, Vienna, Split, Croatia, and Barcelona. The top five places in Germany were Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Dresden, and Leipzig.[7]
- ^ Wauters, Robin (14 June 2011). "Investors Pump $90 Million Into Airbnb Clone Wimdu". TechCrunch.
- ^ Wortham, Jenna (25 July 2011). "Room to Rent, via the Web". The New York Times.
- ^ Higgins, Michelle (4 January 2012). "19 Web Sites for Travel Savings in 2012". The New York Times.
- ^ Choat, Isabel (28 June 2013). "How to find and book a holiday apartment online". The Guardian.
- ^ Sanchez, Maricel (16 July 2019). "Imitation simply wasn't enough: A Wimdu post-mortem". EU Startups.
- ^ O'Neill, Sean (27 September 2018). "Airbnb Clone Wimdu to Close Despite Having Raised More Than $90 Million". Skift.
- ^ Hegenauer, Michael (30 August 2015). "Schläft eigentlich noch irgendjemand im Hotel?" [Does anyone actually sleep in the hotel?]. Die Welt.