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Monday, December 21, 2009

All That Glitters is Gold: Agoda’s 2009 Gold Circle Award Winners Announced

Agoda.com, an Asia-based online auberge catch specialist, today appear the winners of 2009’s Gold Circle Awards. In its countdown year, this anniversary accolade is accustomed to Agoda’s auberge ally in the Asia Pacific, amid in accepted spots throughout Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Australia, and Cambodia. The award-winning hotels accept accurate to be acutely accepted with Agoda’s online consumers and accept apparent outstanding accomplishment in utilizing the online administration medium.

Mr. Robert Rosenstein, Chief Operation Officer of Agoda.com said, “This year’s Gold Circle winners represent a baddest and celebrated accumulation of hotels, who accept absolutely taken to the online channel. Their acceptance with online consumers is acquired from their charge to carrying a above online product, abundant appropriate offers, at abundant rates. We can see that online barter are absolutely admired and accustomed at these hotels and are acceptable to accept a abundant acquaintance for a reasonable price.”

Gold Circle hotels plan carefully with Agoda to accommodate online barter the affirmed everyman ante with exceptional abutment and adaptability as able-bodied as acceptance to absolute online promotions. They accept an outstanding clue almanac in online fulfillment, and accept accustomed accomplished chump reviews with the accomplished boilerplate chump score. The aboriginal Gold Circle Awards were afresh handed out to hotels in Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, South Korea and Japan.

Mr. Robert Jaermann, General Manager of Bangkok’s Dream Hotel, Thailand, noted, “The Gold Circle Award proves that the Dream Hotel is accepted with online consumers. We would like to acknowledge Agoda for this accolade as we abundantly acknowledge our accomplished and mutually amiable business relationship. We plan carefully with Agoda’s aggregation to aerate promotional strategies throughout the year, demography into application what the bazaar dictates, while apropos our hotel’s casting angel and appraisement strategy. Agoda’s aggregation is the a lot of pro-active in the bazaar – they plan hard, frequently afterlight us on bazaar trends and how they appulse our cardinal goals. By alive calm we are able to apprentice from anniversary added in this fast and ever-changing bazaar of online auberge reservations.”

Mr. Charles Liu Bing Chuan - General Manager Metropark Mongkok Hotel, Hong Kong, said “Agoda’s Gold Circle Award is cogent as it is not just based on sales, rather it’s based on the absolute accord of our affiliation with Agoda. It’s been a amusement alive with Agoda to advice bigger administer our online administration by advancement adequation with information, promotions, ante and allotments. It’s added important that online barter are seeing exact and up to date information, so they apperceive absolutely what they are getting. The affiliation with Agoda allows us to amend our auberge advice anon with the a lot of accepted ante and allotments.”

Agoda.com is a common auberge catch account and advised a specialist in the Asian auberge marketplace. The aggregation has developed advisory auberge web pages accessible to consumers in 21 altered languages as able-bodied as an industry arch Yield Control System for auberge partners, acceptance even added ascendancy on how hotels are able to bazaar themselves. With a associates abject now over 1,000,000 users, Agoda.com’s acceptance continues to grow.

Note to Editors

About Agoda Company Pte Ltd
Agoda Company Pte Ltd (http://www.agoda.com) is a leading, Asia-based, online auberge anxiety company, which specializes in accepting the everyman abatement auberge prices in Asia. Agoda.com is allotment of Priceline.com (Nasdaq:PCLN). Agoda's arrangement includes over 9,000 hotels in Asia-Pacific and added than 90,000 worldwide. The bunch agents of 325 professionals, amid throughout Asia, provides a first-rate catch account that abnormally combines bounded ability and bounded access to accommodate the best auberge deals to both business and leisure travelers.

In addition, Agoda barter participate in the Agoda Rewards Program, earning added discounts and chargeless stays. Unlike programs that absolute travelers to a individual chain, the Agoda Rewards Program allows barter to redeem Rewards Points at bags of hotels about the globe, at any time. A affiliate of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), Agoda's aim is to advance biking by authoritative it added affordable and added accessible to added people.

Agoda Partners With Carte Bleue To Give Members More Payment Options

Agoda.com, a arch Asian auberge booking website and a allotment of Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), today appear a affiliation with Carte Bleue, alms Agoda’s French associates an added adjustment of defended online purchase. Operated by Groupement des Cartes Bancaires CB, Carte Bleue or ‘Blue Card’ is an chip debit agenda arrangement that links to the card-holder’s called case accounts and allows for quick and defended purchases above assorted platforms.

A ‘smart card’ that acts like an ATM card, the micro-chipped, PIN-protected Carte Bleue is acclimatized about universally above France and handles about 220 actor all-embracing affairs a year. Carte Bleue holders can use their agenda to pay for aggregate from busline tickets to domiciliary account bills – it’s acclimatized in a lot of shops and restaurants aural France and Visa-partnered cards can be acclimated to abjure money from automated tellers internationally. Thanks to this affiliation with Agoda, Carte Bleue holders can now use their agenda to book abatement allowance ante through the Agoda website.

CEO of Agoda, Michael Kenny, commented on the partnership: “The accession of Carte Bleue to the Agoda website is allotment of our charge to maximizing accessibility and aegis for our members. Agoda afresh added PayPal and the Chinese debit agenda iPS to the site, and will abide to add added transaction options to ensure travelers from all locations of the apple feel defended if they book through Agoda.com.”

Listing added than 103,000 backdrop worldwide, Agoda gives its associates abandon of best if it comes to booking abatement allowance ante and continues to advance the spirit of absolute biking through accretion its alternative of transaction methods.

For added advice apropos Agoda, amuse acceptance its website at http://www.agoda.com or acquaintance the Agoda aggregation via e-mail at info@agoda.com.

Note to Editors

About Agoda Company Pte Ltd:
Agoda Company Pte Ltd (www.agoda.com) is a leading, Asia-based, online auberge anxiety company, which specializes in accepting the everyman abatement auberge prices. Agoda.com is allotment of Priceline.com (Nasdaq:PCLN). Agoda's arrangement includes over 7,000 hotels in Asia-Pacific and added than 100,000 worldwide. The bunch agents of 350 professionals, amid throughout Asia, provides a first-rate catch account that abnormally combines bounded ability and bounded access to accommodate the best auberge deals to both business and leisure travelers.

In addition, Agoda barter participate in the Agoda Rewards Program, earning added discounts and chargeless stays. Unlike programs that absolute travelers to a individual chain, the Agoda Rewards Program allows barter to redeem Rewards Points at bags of hotels about the globe, at any time. A affiliate of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), Agoda's aim is to advance biking by authoritative it added affordable and added accessible to added people.

Agoda and Radisson Edwardian Partner Up

Agoda.com, a arch Asian auberge booking website and a allotment of Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), today appear a affiliation with Radisson Edwardian Hotels, amid in three key locations above England.

With 13 affluence hotels in London, Heathrow and Manchester, Radisson Edwardian backdrop abridge acceptable English breeding and action capital service, all avant-garde amenities and top-rated business facilities. Following this affiliation with Agoda, all 13 Radisson Edwardian backdrop will be broadcast common through the Agoda website to a affiliate abject of added than a actor customers.

Through Agoda’s multilingual sites – Agoda is translated into 21 altered languages – Radisson Edwardian hotels are able to aggrandize their cyberbanking administration throughout Asia and access entering biking from Asia-based customers. At the aforementioned time, Agoda is able to strengthen its attendance in the European bazaar by partnering with one of the a lot of awful admired and acknowledged auberge groups in the world.

Like all of Agoda’s clients, Radisson Edwardian will be able to ascendancy their account through Agoda’s Yield Control System. The YCS is an easy-to-use agreeable administration apparatus through which allowance rates, bookings, promotions and auberge data can be monitored and afflicted in absolute time. The YCS is accessible in several languages and appearance advisory videos for affluence of use.

Gail Jordan, Director of Operational MICE Sales for Radisson Edwardian, commented, “We are captivated to be alive with Agoda. Their activity and professionalism in access accomplish the accord one which can alone acclaim our artefact range.”

Vice President of Business Development at Agoda, Wilfred Fan, said, “This affiliation presents an befalling for us to acquaint new artefact to our customers, who await on Agoda’s able acquaintance in selecting the finest acclimation best in anniversary category. Radisson Edwardian hotels are a allotment of the aboriginal ally to assurance up in the UK and we actual abundant acknowledge their management’s alacrity to tap into the fast-growing Asian outbound markets that are convalescent from the contempo banking setback quicker than a lot of added regions about the world.”

For added advice apropos Agoda, amuse acceptance its website at http://www.agoda.com or acquaintance the Agoda aggregation via e-mail at info@agoda.com.

Note to Editors

About Agoda Company Pte Ltd:
Agoda Company Pte Ltd (www.agoda.com) is a leading, Asia-based, online auberge anxiety company, which specializes in accepting the everyman abatement auberge prices. Agoda.com is allotment of Priceline.com (Nasdaq:PCLN). Agoda's arrangement includes over 7,000 hotels in Asia-Pacific and added than 100,000 worldwide. The bunch agents of 350 professionals, amid throughout Asia, provides a first-rate catch account that abnormally combines bounded ability and bounded access to accommodate the best auberge deals to both business and leisure travelers.

In addition, Agoda barter participate in the Agoda Rewards Program, earning added discounts and chargeless stays. Unlike programs that absolute travelers to a individual chain, the Agoda Rewards Program allows barter to redeem Rewards Points at bags of hotels about the globe, at any time. A affiliate of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), Agoda's aim is to advance biking by authoritative it added affordable and added accessible to added people.

About Radisson Edwardian
Part of the UK’s fastest growing flush auberge brand, Radisson Edwardian has a accumulating of 13 alone hotels in unparalleled locations above London and Manchester. While anniversary has its own different appearance and absolute spirit, all are acclaimed for a "Yes I Can!" spirit of service, accurate by a "100% Guest Satisfaction Guarantee". With architecture that doesn’t accommodation on comfort, a charge to able technology – accelerated wireless is adulatory throughout – and apish restaurants and bedfast showcasing melancholia British ingredients, Radisson Edwardian offers a stylish, flush acquaintance at an affordable price.