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Booking.com enters hotel distribution deal with Ctrip

August 08, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

China's leading OTA Ctrip and Booking.com announced an agreement under which Ctrip can reach Booking.com's global portfolio of over 235,000 participating hotels through Ctrip's hotel reservation services.

Ctrip now offers over 50,000 hotels worldwide. Booking.com's hotel inventories will be offered in addition to the participating hotels already in Ctrip's hotel reservation service. The relationship significantly increases Ctrip's total number of available hotels and its global coverage, which will now include the more than 170 countries covered by Booking.com.

"Ctrip has been actively expanding the international travel products to service China's fast growing outbound travel demand," said Mr. Min Fan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ctrip. "Booking.com offers the broadest collection of hotel and other accommodation partners worldwide, and we are pleased to work with them and enhance our global hotel offerings."

"Ctrip.com is the leader in China's rapidly growing online travel market and we are excited to work with them and make our global hotel collection available to their customers," said Mr. Darren Huston, Booking.com's Chief Executive Officer. "This will also give Booking.com's accommodation partners a new opportunity to serve even more travelers from the Asia-Pacific region."

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