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hotel.de announces positive booking figures for the 2nd quarter of 2007 • Booking volumes in other countries: +97% • June - strongest month in terms of bookings: +72% Nuremberg, 4 July 2007 - The global hotel reservation service hotel.de built on the strong growth reported in preceding months in the second quarter as well. The company today announced a 49.2% increase in its booking volumes to Euro 78.1 million (Q2 2006: Euro 52.4 million). With year-on-year growth of 71.7%, June was the strongest month in this respect. In the first half of 2007, the company's bookings volumes therefore rose by 50.6% to Euro 153.3 million compared with the first six months of 2006 (Euro 101.8 million). Positive performance in international business Dr. Heinz Raufer, CEO of hotel.de AG is particularly pleased with the performance of the company's international business. "With growth of 96.25% from Euro 17.7 million to Euro 34.7 million in the second quarter, we virtually doubled our booking volumes in this division, thus increasing the international share of total booking volumes to 44.4%. Our success in other countries has thus affirmed our expansion strategy, as well as our target of becoming the market leader in Europe." In the first half of 2007 as a whole, international booking volumes rose from Euro 35.5 million to Euro 67.0 million, equivalent to growth of 88.7% on the first six months of 2006. Booking volumes act as an indicator of the company's future business performance, given that revenues are generated at a later date from the commissions on such bookings. Commissions account for the largest share of the company's sales. The company will publish its operating results for the second quarter in mid-August. "These will also reflect the success of the measures we have taken to reactivate existing customer relationships and to acquire new customers", added Dr. Raufer. |
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| hotel.de hotel.de AG, based in Hamm and Nuremberg, Germany, London, UK and Paris, France runs a free of charge hotel reservation service for companies and private users on www.hotel.de, www.travelres.com, www.hotel.at and www.hotel.ch. hotel.de/TravelRes offers 210,000 hotels worldwide to be booked online. In 2007, hotel.de has enlarged its business model - focussing on the placing of hotel stays - by the fast-growing segment of procuring conference hotels for corporate clients. Compared to other booking channels, hotel.de/TravelRes customers benefit from considerable cost savings. These partially result from the very low hotel rates which hotel.de/TravelRes is able to negotiate with hotels, thanks to its high booking volume. Additionally, hotel.de/TravelRes always displays all rates available for every single hotel (e.g. promotional rates, corporate or weekend rates), so that the customer can choose the lowest or best-fitting rate. Another major advantage of hotel.de/TravelRes is the fact that booking confirmations are sent right into the hotel's computer - making a reservation fast, safe and reliable. This is enabled by hotel.de/TravelRes' unique integration of the hotels' central reservation systems (so-called CRS) under one consistent user surface. Well-known companies, such as Wella AG (subsidiary of Procter & Gamble), SAP AG, ThyssenKrupp AG, degussa AG, Logica CMG GmbH, Ernst & Young AG, Wal-Mart, Texas Instruments Inc., Deutsche Börse Group, Munich Re Group and others already use the hotel.de/TravelRes corporate application. |
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