Bezurk.com Expands Hotel Offering with Cendant Travel Distribution Services
Singapore. May 1st, 2006 – Bezurk.com, the comprehensive Asia Pacific travel search engine, today announced a marketing partnership with Cendant Travel Distribution Services , one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse collections of travel brands and distribution businesses. Through this partnership, Bezurk.com will drive consumers directly to HotelClub(www.HotelClub.com), RatesToGo (www.RatesToGo.com) and OctopusTravel (www.OctopusTravel.com), to book their travel.
Yury Gilkin, Senior Business Development Manager said “Our decision to partner with Bezurk was made easier because of its advanced technology and supplier-friendly business model. We have one of the largest range of accommodation choices and Bezurk’s advanced searching, filtering and sorting technology provides us with access to a wider and more qualified base of consumers.”
“The range and depth of hotels offered across HotelClub, RatesToGo and OctopusTravel is tremendous and will significantly enhance the already excellent choice of hotels users can search on Bezurk.com” said Craig Hewett, Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Bezurk.com. “Cendant is a recognized travel industry leader and we’re excited to be a part of Cendant’s online distribution and marketing strategy.
In order to support the new agreement, Cendant Travel Distribution Services have provided Bezurk with access to their partner XML API to search for both pricing and availability across HotelClub, RatesToGo and OctopusTravel
About Bezurk
Bezurk.com is a comparison-shopping web site that helps travelers from the Asia-Pacific region search for flights, hotels, rental cars, packages and tours across a multitude of travel websites. Bezurk searches suppliers like the airlines and hotel chains directly but also includes hotel aggregators and online travel agents. Searching is done in real-time so that results show only the latest pricing and availability. Bezurk links travelers directly through to our partners websites to book. Bezurk which is headquartered in Singapore was founded in 2005 by former executives from Expedia, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Priceline, Yahoo! and Zuji. For more information, please visit www.bezurk.com
About HotelClub
HotelClub (www.HotelClub.com) is a global accommodation specialist website offering hotel bookings for up to 12 months in advance. It offers users the choice of over 21,000 hotels – at savings of up to 60% , in 102 countries and 2,500 cities worldwide. HotelClub is available in nine languages – Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. HotelClub is a truly global website offering its customers access through country specific sites in 10 countries including HotelClub.com, HotelClub.com.au, HotelClub.de, HotelClub.fr, HotelClub.it, HotelClub.es and HotelClub.co.uk.
About RatesToGo
RatesToGo (www.RatesToGo.com) is a last minute accommodation booking service featuring rates that are up to 70% less than usual hotel rates.RatesToGo.com offers bookings up to three weeks in advance (similar sites offer 14 days in advance) at over 9500 properties, ranging from one to five stars. RatesToGo covers 1200 cities across 45 countries in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. RatesToGo also offers customers a lowest rate guarantee – find a cheaper deal and RatesToGo will match it. RatesToGo is available in nine languages- Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.
About OctopusTravel.com
OctopusTravel.com Ltd (www.OctopusTravel.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Cendant Corporation and part of Cendant Travel Distribution Services, is an innovative online travel company with a huge choice of more than 21,000 hotels and 3,000 apartments with instant confirmation throughout 122 countries. Other travel services include car hire, sightseeing tours and attractions, private transfers, group travel and rail passes. The site boasts destination information, including 300 extensive city and country travel guides, weather reports, currency conversion and travel health advice.
About Cendant Travel Distribution Services
Cendant Corporation’s (NYSE: CD) Travel Distribution Services Division, is. HotelClub and RatesToGo are operated by Flairview Travel a wholly owned subsidiary of Cendant Travel Distribution Services Division. OctopusTravel.com is also a part of this division. For more information about Cendant, please visit www.cendant.com.
Media Contact:
Chloe Lim
Director of Marketing
Flairview Travel
Tel: 61 2 8263 5106
Fax: 61 2 9264 0559
Email: chloe.lim@flairview.com
