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