New Solid European Tie-Ups for HotelsCombined.com

Sydney, 8 February 2010 – HotelsCombined.com, the world’s leading hotel meta-search engine, announced today their new supplier agreements with European online travel agents – HRS (Hotel Reservation Service) and Hotelopia, part of TUI Travel PLC.

The move comes after integrating LastMinute, owned by Travelocity, part of the Sabre Holdings Corporation, Expedia in Europe and Ebookers, part of Orbitz Worldwide and follows HotelsCombined’s decision to expand into the European market.

HotelsCombined.com Managing Director, Yury Shar commented: “Europe continues to be an exciting online accommodation market with plenty of potential. HRS and Hotelopia both with significant European inventories will add great value for millions of customers using HotelsCombined.com travelling in and out of Europe.”

HotelsCombined.com is the world’s leading hotel meta-search engine featuring more than 200,000 hotels in 20,000 destinations, across 195 countries. HotelsCombined.com laser targets its resources to deliver more than 900,000 real-time hotel deals which can be price compared and booked directly through leading supplier partners such as Expedia.com, Booking.com, Travelocity.com and Hotels.com as well as via corporate hotel partnerships with InterContinental, Hilton and many others. More than 6.5 million HotelsCombined.com monthly worldwide visitors utilize 4.5 million hotel images, 2.5 million hotel descriptions and maps and 1.5 million customer reviews to help choose the best hotel and best available deal. HotelsCombined.com has received critical acclaims from travel industry experts such as Arthur Frommer, founder of Frommer’s Travel Guides and Budget Travel Magazine, who said, “There's now an aggregator for finding inexpensive hotel rooms anywhere in the world, and its results seem phenomenal” and CNN has praised HotelsCombined.com saying, “If you are looking for hotels, HotelsCombined.com gives you a darn good search.” For more information visit www.HotelsCombined.com.