FastBooking(R) Signs Agreement with Bezurk.com To Drive Online Presence and Hotel Booking
FastBooking, the global provider of advanced Internet Booking
Systems and E-Marketing Services for the hospitality industry and
Bezurk.com, Asia Pacific´s leading travel search engine today
announced a marketing partnership, which will enable the integration
of FastBooking´s portfolio of hotels into the Bezurk travel search.
Under this agreement Bezurk.com will display real-time room
availability and rates for all of FastBooking´s hotel clients to
visitors searching for accommodation and direct potential guests to
FastBooking.com to complete the booking process.
This new integration will provide visitors to Bezurk.com with the
opportunity to search and compare an extended selection of more than
3700 hotels in the world and more specifically on European
destinations.
FastBooking´s hotel portfolio mainly includes independent and
group hotels from 3 to 5 stars, offering Bezurk´s visitors a high
quality choice while guaranteeing the most competitive rates, and the
necessary availabilities to satisfy their demand.
The alliance with Bezurk.com is a key element in the FastBooking´s
development strategy in Asia and will enable the company to build
brand awareness and promote its distinctive hotels offering to a large
and valuable target audience. It follows several partnership
agreements signed with international key players in the travel &
tourism industry in Europe and America.
"This partnership is a valuable addition to FastBooking´s
distribution program designed to provide hoteliers with an additional
distribution channel and maximize their on-line revenue. As Asia´s
premier travel search engine Bezurk.com is the ideal platform to reach
highly qualified consumers across the Asia Pacific region, drive more
visitors to fastbooking.com thus bringing increased visibility and
high value bookings to our hotel partners" states Alain Hirschfeld,
Deputy Director Business Development, FastBooking.
"We are delighted to be working with FastBooking because it
expands the breadth of hotel results that our users get to see," says
Bezurk Founder & Chief Commercial Officer, Craig Hewett. "This year is
set to be a year of great growth for Bezurk, in terms of new product
features and increasing user traffic, which will in turn benefit
partners like Fastbooking."
About Bezurk.com
Bezurk.com is a comparison-shopping web site that helps travelers
from the Asia-Pacific region search for flights hotels and other
travel products across multiple travel websites. Bezurk searches
airline and hotel chain websites directly and also hotel aggregator
and online travel agency sites. Searching is done in real-time so that
results show only the latest pricing and availability. Bezurk links
travelers directly through to partner websites to book. Bezurk,
headquartered in Singapore, was founded in 2005 by former executives
from Intercontinental Hotels Group, Yahoo!, Priceline and ZUJI.
Business 2.0 magazine recently named Bezurk as one of "31 of the
world´s hottest international web startups".
More information on www.bezurk.com/about
About FastBooking
FastBooking is a leading provider of advanced Internet booking
systems and E-marketing services for the hospitality industry.
FastBooking´s solutions help independent and chain hotels worldwide
increase their revenue on the Internet and maximize their distribution
strategy while simplifying the management of rates and availabilities
across multiple channels.
A whole global program is available to hoteliers including a
multilingual Internet Booking Engine with advanced property
merchandising facilities, GDS/IDS representation, e-marketing tools
and a network of hotel distribution websites (fastbooking.com,
hotels-paris.fr , only-recommended-hotels.com ...) and partners.
Headquartered in Paris with subsidiaries in Italy, USA, Canada, Asia,
India, the company has 3i Group plc and E. de Rothschild as anchor
investors. It employs 130 persons and has gained the trust of 3 700
customers.
More information on www.fastbooking.org