While the holiday packages use an online travel agency booking model, with customer service outsourced to a third party, the pending local offering will have a travel inspiration component but will still use the comparison pricing of metasearch, he said. Trivago reported its fourth quarter Wednesday. For the quarter, Trivago's net loss was $10.4 million (euro 8.6 million) compared with net income of $3.7 million (euro 3.1 million) a year earlier. Revenue was $39 million (euro 32.3 million), a 79 percent plummet. The second wave of the pandemic severely impacted Trivago's results, and officials told analysts that they have hopes for a travel recovery in the second half of the year contingent on successful Covid vaccine rollouts. Trivago's metasearch auction for advertisers was volatile in the quarter because of the second wave.