According to a new priceline.com(R) (Nasdaq: PCLN) global hotel
survey of top New Year´s Eve party spots, London is the #1 destination
for European revelers, while the Las Vegas Strip is the top
destination among Americans and Bangkok is the favorite among Asian
travelers.
Priceline.com´s list of top U.S. destinations comes from a
sampling of hotel room booking requests made by consumers on
www.priceline.com. The European top destinations list was based on New
Year´s Eve hotel bookings made by European consumers on
www.booking.com, priceline.com´s European online hotel reservation
service. And the Asia top destinations list was based on hotel booking
requests made by Asian consumers on www.agoda.com, priceline.com´s
Asia-Pacific online hotel reservation service.
U.S. Top 10 New Year´s Eve Destinations
Among U.S. residents, the top 10 New Year´s Eve destinations are:
#1 Las Vegas Strip, #2 New York´s Soho/Financial District, #3 New
York´s Upper Midtown/Central Park South area, #4 New York´s Midtown
West, #5 New York´s Times Square/Theater District, #6 New York´s
Midtown East, #7 New Orleans´ Downtown/Convention Center area, #8
Orlando´s Universal Studios/Sea World area, #9 San Francisco´s Union
Square West, and #10 New Orleans´ French Quarter.
Europe´s Top 10 New Year´s Eve Destinations
Among European residents, the top 10 New Year´s destinations are:
#1 London, #2 Paris, #3 Berlin, #4 Amsterdam, #5 Barcelona, #6 Madrid,
#7 Rome, #8 Brussels, #9 New York, and #10 Vienna.
Asia´s Top 10 New Year´s Eve Destinations
Among residents of the Asia-Pacific region, the top 10 New Year´s
destinations are: #1 Bangkok, #2 Phuket (Thailand), #3 Hong Kong, #4
Pattaya (Thailand), #5 Sydney, Australia, #6 Singapore, #7 Tokyo, #8
Samui (Thailand), #9 Krabi (Thailand), and #10 Bali (Indonesia).
About Priceline.com(R) Incorporated
Priceline.com Incorporated (Nasdaq: PCLN) operates priceline.com,
a leading U.S. online travel service for value-conscious leisure
travelers, and Booking.com, a leading international online hotel
reservation service. Priceline.com also operates Agoda.com, an Asian
online hotel reservation service. In the U.S., priceline.com gives
customers more ways to save on their airline tickets, hotel rooms,
rental cars, vacation packages and cruises than any other Internet
travel service. In addition to getting great published prices, leisure
travelers can narrow their searches using priceline.com´s TripFilter
advanced search technology, create packages to save even more money,
and take advantage of priceline.com´s famous Name Your Own Price(R)
service, which can deliver the lowest prices available.
Priceline.com believes that Booking.com is Europe´s largest and
fastest growing hotel reservation service, with a network of
affiliated Web sites. Booking.com operates in over 60 countries in 16
languages and offers its customers access to over 38,000 participating
hotels worldwide. Priceline.com also operates the following travel
websites: Travelweb.com, Lowestfare.com, RentalCars.com and
BreezeNet.com. Priceline.com also has a personal finance service that
offers home mortgages, refinancing and home equity loans through an
independent licensee. Priceline.com licenses its business model to
independent licensees, including priceline mortgage and certain
international licensees.
