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    agoda.com partners with travel portal CheapTickets.sg

    June 16, 2012
    Eco / Business News
    agoda.com partners with travel portal CheapTickets.sg

    SINGAPORE – Agoda.com, Asia’s leading global hotel booking site and part of Nasdaq-listed Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN),announced a new partnership with travel site CheapTickets.sg.

    Based in Singapore, CheapTickets.sg is a one-stop travel shop providing travelers direct access to competitive rates on airfares, car rental, tours, and – thanks to this partnership with Agoda.com – hotel says. In a synergistic match for both companies, CheapTickets.sg customers can conveniently book flights and hotel stays through a single travel portal, while agoda.com hotel partners benefit from increased exposure in the Singaporean travel market.

    Launched in 2005, agoda.com has established partnerships with thousands of properties, with particularly deep inventory in the Asia region. As a result, agoda.com can offer rates and room types not available through other hotel booking companies – the perfect affiliate for sites like CheapTickets.sg looking to provide up-to-the-minute rates and promotions and a wide range of accommodation options worldwide.

    CheapTickets.sg is currently focused on providing travel services to Asian travelers, connecting agoda.com hotel partners around the world to a variety of Asian markets. Agoda.com provides hotel booking services in 37 different languages, so Asia-based customers can confidently book a European or US hotel stay in their chosen language using a hotel company they trust.

    Chief Commercial Officer of agoda.com, Bryan Lewis, commented: “This partnership between agoda.com and CheapTickets.sg not only helps travelers in the Asia region access the best hotel rates worldwide, it opens up whole new markets to our hotel partners across Europe and the United States. We look forward to long and fruitful partnership with CheapTickets.sg.”

    Likewise, Agoda.com, Asia’s leading hotel booking site and part of Nasdaq-listed Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN),  announced the launch of the free agoda.com Facebook Booking Button (BE3) for Hotels.

    In 2010, agoda.com launched a free booking button (BE3) that plugs into a hotel’s existing website, allowing customers to make bookings directly from the hotel’s page. Once installed, the booking button links customers directly to an easy-to-use, white-label booking form available in 30 different languages, with all bookings free of fees and commissions.

    To sign up for the free booking button, all hotels need to do is register at agoda.com via https://ycs.agoda.com . Existing YCS Hotel Partners can install the booking button to their hotel’s website or Facebook profile simply by logging into the above URL and completing the 1-step integration process.

    New agoda.com hotel partners can sign up in just 15 minutes. After registering, hotels not only have access to agoda’s free BE3 booking button, but can enjoy the full range of benefits of being an agoda.com partner. This includes worldwide marketing in 37 languages, tailored newsletters that reach in excess of 2 million members, and access to agoda.com’s Yield Control System to build promotions and maximize revenue.

    Agoda’s free booking button for Facebook has already received praise as a valuable source of bookings for Agoda.com hotel partners around the world.

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