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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