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Life House is a hotel software and management platform focused on enhancing profitability and reliability for independent hoteliers. By developing proprietary products, the company aims to streamline hotel ownership, making it more profitable and predictable for owners while improving the overall guest experience. Life House stands out as one of the few vertically integrated hotel companies supported by institutional venture and private equity investors, allowing for significant investment in technology and services. This approach enables travelers to enjoy boutique hotel experiences at affordable prices, thereby contributing to the growth and success of independent hotels.

HotelsCombined is a hotel search engine based in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2005 by a team of technology and digital business experts. It enables travelers to search for accommodations in over 120,000 destinations worldwide, offering information in multiple languages and handling various currencies. The platform aggregates more than 2 million hotel deals from hundreds of travel websites, allowing users to compare prices and availability from over 200 sources, including major travel sites. The service is free to use, with all displayed prices inclusive of taxes. Users can easily click through to partner websites to complete their bookings. HotelsCombined has been recognized for its rapid growth and innovation in the travel sector, including winning the TRAVELtech 'Website of the Year' award in 2010. Additionally, the company offers an affiliate program that provides tools and resources for other websites to integrate its hotel comparison solution.

Mundi is a Brazilian metasearch engine established in 2008 that specializes in comparing prices for tourist services, including flights and hotel accommodations. The platform facilitates user access to a vast array of options by aggregating information from numerous online travel agencies and direct suppliers, thus allowing users to efficiently find competitive prices. Mundi attracts over 4 million visitors each month and provides price searches for approximately 200,000 hotels globally, as well as a wide selection of flight options from various airlines. As of August 2017, Mundi operates as a subsidiary of Kayak Software Corporation.

Checkfelix is ​​an independent travel search engine for cheap flights , cheap hotels and cheap car rental . This means that hundreds of travel websites are searched around the world, and all the results are then presented in a clear way. Thus, nothing can stand in the way of a simple price comparison. Once the decision has been made and you click on book, a direct forwarding to the respective provider takes place, where the booking can be completed. Checkfelix helps to navigate the great offer jungle, in order to really find the best offer. Thus one can not miss the cheapest price for a flight , a hotel or a car rental . Ultimately, however, it is up to the user to decide whether the travel offer is booked directly with an airline, a hotel or an online travel agency. And time is also a decisive factor. Checkfelix searches hundreds of sites in a maximum of 2 minutes. Compared to the time it would cost if you manually search all pages manually, this is almost incredible. Individual searches on hundreds of portals would probably take hours!

Swoodoo is an online search engine that enables users to find and book flights and hotels around Europe. The mobile sized version of this application is available on both iOS and Android platforms. Swoodoo is based in Munich, Germany.

SideStep is a metasearch engine for travel which makes money through advertising and referral fees. It searches more than 200 websites looking for the best travel deals. SideStep has recently been aggressive in building up its offerings. They acquired [TripUp](http://crunchbase.com/organization/tripup) (a social network focused on travel) and TravelPost.com (a hotel ratings site) with the goal of becoming "the leader in online travel related information." In addition, they have launched two [Facebook](http://crunchbase.com/organization/facebook) applications. The Trips Facebook application provides a trip planning service that currently has over 150,000 users. The Extended Info application allows users to add fields and categories of their own choice to a Facebook profile. SideStep is also developing a Facebook App for TripUp that should be launched later in the year. SideStep was acquired in December 2007 by their nearest competitor Kayak for roughly $180,000,000. Other popular travel metasearch sites and SideStep competitors include [Cheapflights](http://www.cheapflights.com), [Farechase](http://www.Farechase.com), [Mobissimo](http://www.Mobissimo.com) and [Qixo](http://www.Qixo.com).