Lonely Planet partners with Bezurk.com for Travel Search
Bezurk.com to power air and hotel search in Asia Pacific for the Lonely Planet website
Singapore. August 22nd, 2006 – Bezurk.com, the Asia Pacific travel search engine and Lonely Planet, the world’s premier independent travel publisher, today announced that Bezurk.com is to power flight and hotel search for the Asia Pacific region on lonelyplanet.com.
“As part of our commitment to delivering enhanced services to our travelers, we selected Bezurk.com for their unique travel search technology and extensive travel partnerships in the Asia Pacific region.” said Mike McDermott, Travel Services Manager, Lonely Planet.
Lonely Planet Travel Services is a one-stop shop for all travelers trip planning needs. Lonely Planet carefully selects travel companies to partner with businesses that are ideally suited to service the needs of independent travelers.
Craig Hewett, Bezurk’s Founder and Chief Marketing Officer said: “We are delighted to be working with Lonely Planet which is one of the truly iconic travel brands of our generation.” Mr Hewett continued: “Lonely Planet is all about getting out and experiencing the best the world has to offer. Through our partnership we are confident that lonelyplanet.com users will save some time and money during their travel preparations and therefore be able to see a little bit more of the world than they would have otherwise.”
Through this partnership lonelyplanet.com users will enjoy the convenience of searching for flights and hotels, across multiple airline, hotel and online travel agent websites in a single search. The search functionality will be included in the “Travel Services” section of the Lonely Planet website www.lonelyplanet.com/travel_services/flights/single_return.cfm
About Bezurk (www.bezurk.com)
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 Yahoo, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Priceline, and ZUJI. For more information, please visit www.bezurk.com.
About Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet is the world’s leading independent global travel information provider and publisher headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, with regional offices in the US and UK. Founded in 1973 by husband and wife team Tony and Maureen Wheeler, the company publishes over 600 titles in English and sells more than 6.5 million books a year in 118 countries. Lonely Planet has an award-winning website and online stock photography library and more than 300 authors from over 20 countries research the world over and provide expert information. Lonely Planet’s Business Services Unit is dedicated to leveraging this travel expertise to create travel content for new distribution channels and business clients. Visit www.lonelyplanet.biz.
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Mike.McDermott@lonelyplanet.com.au
