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AsiaOne Selects ZUJI as its Official Online Travel Partner
Singapore - March 18, 2004 – AsiaOne, the Internet arm of
Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), announced today that it has selected
ZUJI Asia Pacific’s leading online travel company to be its official
online travel partner. This alliance will empower the AsiaOne customer
to access ZUJI’s competitive travel deals, comprehensive product
range and simple and easy to use booking engine all from the AsiaOne
Travel Channel (http://travel.asiaone.com).
“We wanted to find an online travel partner who could offer our
customers a one stop shop solution,” said Grace Chng, Assistant
Vice President (Special Projects Unit), of Singapore Press Holdings.
ZUJI is Asia Pacific’s leading online travel company, empowering
travellers to create their own journeys with online access to a comprehensive
range of travel products including more than 300 airlines, 33,000
hotels, 50 car hire companies and 3,000 activities and attractions.
ZUJI has an online member base exceeding 1 million travellers and
currently operates in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Australia.
ZUJI has aggressive expansion plans in Asia Pacific, which includes
new markets such as New Zealand, India, China and other South East
Asian countries.
“The combination of ZUJI’s online travel expertise and offerings
and AsiaOne’s news content delivers Singaporeans a compelling
new path to book travel online with ZUJI,” said Martin Symes,
Executive Director Commercial of ZUJI.
AsiaOne is uniquely positioned to add significant value to this alliance
because it has the high PMEB (Professionals, Managers, Executives,
Businesspeople) traffic and experience to shape solutions to our affluent
surfers who travel frequently. AsiaOne has a customer base of 3 million
unique visitors. In addition AsiaOne draws more than 150 million page
views a month and the numbers keep growing.
At the core of AsiaOne’s fast growing suite of products are the
online editions of seven of the Group’s newspapers – The
Straits Times Interactive, Zaobao Online, The Business Times Online,
The Electric New Paper, Cyberita and Tamil Murasu Online. It is one
of the busiest websites in Asia, rich in content and lifestyle offerings.
AsiaOne customers can now access all of ZUJI’s travel deals on
flights, hotels, car rental and activities, all from the AsiaOne travel
channel (http://travel.asiaone.com). In addition AsiaOne customers
can now access exclusive member only travel deals by signing up for
free membership.
About AsiaOne
AsiaOne is owned and managed by Singapore Press Holdings Limited
(SPH). We have been a player on the Internet since June 1995, hosting
and marketing the online editions of newspapers of the Singapore Press
Holdings group as well as a range of regional publications. AsiaOne
draws more than 150 million page views a month and the numbers
keep growing.
At the core of AsiaOne’s fast growing suite of products are
the online editions of seven of the Group’s newspapers –
The Straits Times Interactive, Zaobao Online, The Business Times
Online, The Electric New Paper, Cyberita and Tamil Murasu Online.
It is one of the busiest websites in Asia, rich in content and lifestyle
offerings.
Further information on AsiaOne is available on the Internet at www.asiaone.com
About ZUJI
ZUJI is Asia Pacific’s leading online travel company.
ZUJI is a joint venture of 16 leading airlines operating in Asia-Pacific
and Travelocity, the most popular travel site in the United States.
The airlines are All Nippon Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, China
Airlines, EVA Airways, Garuda Indonesia, Hong Kong Dragon Airlines,
Japan Air System, Japan Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Northwest Airlines,
Philippine Airlines, Qantas Airways, Royal Brunei Airlines, SilkAir,
Singapore Airlines and United Airlines.
ZUJI has Internet travel sites and offices in five Asia Pacific
countries.
ZUJI site urls are:
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Singapore:
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www.zuji.com.sg
(English language) |
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Hong Kong:
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www.zuji.com.hk
(English and Chinese language) |
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Taiwan:
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www.zuji.com.tw
and www.buylowtravel.com.tw
(Chinese language) |
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Australia:
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www.zuji.com.au
(English language) |
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Korea:
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www.nextour.co.kr
(Korean language) |
ZUJI’s Head Quarters are located in Singapore.
ZUJI partners with:
- Yahoo! in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea to
power the travel channel
- Yahoo! in Taiwan to power the ‘Travel Overseas’
channel
- MSN in Singapore and Korea to power the travel channel
- ninemsn “Getaway Travel” in Australia, the #1
online portal in Australia to power the travel channel
- AsiaOne, news portal in Singapore to power the travel channel
- Taiwan Top Tours, China Times Travel Services for Taiwan
domestic itineraries
- Naver.com Korea to power an exclusive store in the travel
section
- Korean Air for provision of ‘Honeymoon’ and ‘Woman’
travel portal
ZUJI is also Asia Pacific’s most comprehensive online travel
company, empowering travellers to create their own journeys with
online access to a comprehensive range of travel products and including
more than 300 airlines, 33,000 hotels, 50 car hire companies and
more than 3,000 activities and attractions.
ZUJI has an online member base exceeding 1 million travellers and
has aggressive expansion plans in Asia Pacific. ZUJI’s target
countries for future expansion include New Zealand, India, China
and other South East Asia markets.
Media Contact
Singapore Press Holdings
Grace Chng
Assistant Vice President, Special Projects Unit
Tel (65) 63192033, Fax (65) 63198248
Email chrisnyl@sph.com.sg
ZUJI
Sean Seah
Marketing Manager South East Asia
Tel (65) 6720 1227, Fax (65) 6226 0382
Email sean.seah@zuji.com
Jamilah Yacob/Charles Yap
Dunbar Jones and Associates,
Tel (65) 6356 2830, Fax (65) 6254 8971
Email jyacob@dunbarjones.com.sg or cyap@dunbarjones.com.sg
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