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Booking.com joins forces with new beach site
Amsterdam, 14 May 2008: Booking.com, European market leader for online hotel reservations (part of priceline.com Nasdaq PCLN), is joining forces with Onbeach.com, a new web site with information about thousands of beaches in Europe and the Caribbean. Onbeach.com offers visitors the possibility to find their perfect beach. Thanks to the cooperation with Booking.com visitors can immediately look at and book the hotels in the vicinity. From small Bed & Breakfasts to luxury five star hotels: everything is possible.
Gerben van Dam, founder of Onbeach.com, says: “Booking a beach holiday is not always easy. Usually people spend most of their time at the beach, but know little about it. This can lead to disappointments. Onbeach.com wants to give people the opportunity to find a nice beach and book a hotel to go with it. To simplify this process, we’ve paired reliable information on beaches with the Booking.com coastal hotels. Our cooperation with Booking.com makes perfect sense. Because of the large number of hotels in Booking.com’s database, Booking.com can offer our visitors relevant hotels. Moreover, the reservation system of Booking.com supports different languages through the same system, and that’s pretty unique. “
Sabrina Harmon, Account Manager Distribution with Booking.com: “It’s a pleasure to back Onbeach.com with our hotel supply. Onbeach.com has charted all the beaches of Western-Europe. Via preferences like tranquility, family, sports or food & drink, visitors can find the perfect beach and because of this cooperation also a fitting coastal hotel.”
Booking.com reports an organic growth of 82% and the site of the company receives over 20 million visitors per month. With 19 million room nights sold in 2007 the company is Europe’s market leader.
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About Booking.com
Booking.com, part of Priceline.com (Nasdaq:PCLN) is Europe’s leading online hotel reservations agency by room nights sold, attracting over 20 million unique visitors each month via the Internet from both leisure and business markets worldwide. In 2007 Booking.com sold over 19 million room nights and reached an organic year growth of 82%.
Booking.com is available in 17 languages and offers 40,000 hotels in over 10,000 destinations. The company has offices in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Cambridge, Cape Town, Dubai, Dublin, London, Loulé (PT), Lyon, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, Singapore, Stockholm, Vienna and Warsaw. For more information: www.booking.com.
About Onbeach.com
The web site Onbeach.com focuses on collecting and publishing information on beaches and coasts. Onbeach.com owns the largest (multimedia) database on beaches in the world. The website Onbeach.com is published by Coastal Globe BV. Coastal Globe was founded in 2007 in Waddinxveen, The Netherlands. Besides exploiting Onbeach.com, Coastal Globe publishes beach guides and develops interactive beach databases for third parties.
More information:
Booking.com, Mirjam Melkman, tel. + 31 (0) 20 7133 587, mirjam.melkman@booking.com
Onbeach.com, Gerben van Dam, tel. +31 (0) 182 638 888, gerben@onbeach.com