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AirAsiaGo.com: Revolutionizing Travel Experience

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3,000 Free Rooms WorldWide Up For Grabs - One Day Only

A brand new AirAsiaGo.com enters the online travel agent market with a storm, offering its guests a convenient, one-stop online travel portal, which is set to revolutionize the way travel plans are made.

In conjunction with the relaunch, AirAsiaGo.com is offering free room nights, transfers and tours for a ONE DAY ONLY promotion, available exclusively online at www.airasiago.com. There are over 3,000 rooms to give away in this special one-day promotion for bookings made on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 for the travel period from 1 June 2010 – 31 March 2011.

 

What used to be GoHoliday, is now rebranded as AirAsiaGo.com, AirAsia’s new holiday travel portal that offers guests personalized & customized solutions to their travel needs, as well as their budgets. With this re-launch of the travel portal-AirAsiaGo, guests are now able to choose from a selection of over 70,000 hotels worldwide, and more than 5,000 tour packages with specialized activities ranging from music, theatre, diving, golf, spa & even adventure to suit everyone’s travel desire.

Kathleen Tan, Regional Head of Commercial, AirAsia Group said: “AirAsiaGo.com is the online travel portal for any traveler, and yes, we dare to claim so. It is clearly simple, as we offer the widest range and variety of hotels, tours and activities in the Asia region, coupled with ultimate convenience for guests as a one-stop online travel portal. The hectic lifestyle of the present generation has inspired us to ensure that convenience is of priority when developing AirAsiaGo.com. Guests can book AirAsia flights via the site with unbelievable low fares. Furthermore, its association with AirAsia, the World’s Best Low Cost Airline for 2010 by Skytrax which the airline received for the second consecutive year, our guest’s is assured that their online transactions and bookings are seamless and secured.”

To further enhance the site, the implementation of ezRez software for AirAsiaGo.com provides an enhanced browsing and navigational experience for guests throughout the website with its new layout and user-friendly interface. Also made available are reviews from fellow travelers upon selection of their hotel preferences and travel options.

“As travel demands change according to people’s lifestyle and trends, we see the need to adapt and innovate as well. We received 25.5 million unique visitors to our AirAsia.com site last month, with more than 65 million visits. The expansion of our holiday division, AirAsiaGo.com will now enable our AirAsia guests to personalize and customize their travel experience according to their preference and budget with the wide variance of services which includes car hire & transfers, golf packages, spa packages, adventure activities, and even access to sporting events such as the English Premier League and Formula 1 Grand Prix. The website has seen 30% - 50% growth in sales since we rebranded ourselves as AirAsiaGo.com with a new look and feel complimented with a greater variety of content offerings in February this year. And with this launch today, we are going to chart another milestone for the online travel agent industry, and take it by storm,” Kathleen concluded.

John Swanciger, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing, ezRez commented, “As a software company that powers online travel tools for airlines and hotels around the world, the commitment I see from AirAsiaGo.com’s team in creating the best travel website for its customers is truly impressive; and it is our pleasure to be in partnership with one of Asia’s premier online travel agencies. AirAsiaGo.com is available in 13 different countries, with 6 different languages and payment options in 16 currencies. To date, AirAsiaGo.com has already achieved a significant 100,000 room nights on the ezRez system, and judging from the size of our other partners; this record is certainly no small feat. We expect this number will significantly grow as AirAsia continues expanding to new markets around the globe.”

AirAsiaGo.com keeps abreast with the social media community via their Facebook and Twitter accounts. Guests are able to receive real-time updates on latest promotions and interact with AirAsiaGo.com via www.facebook.com/AirAsiaGo and www.twitter.com/AirAsiaGo.

About AirAsiaGo.com
AirAsiaGo.com is AirAsia’s holiday division which offers travel services such as flights, hotels, car hire & transfers, tours and activities. The one-stop online travel portal began operations in August 2004 with a little over 20,000 hotel partners, and has since grown to include more than 70,000 hotel partners and over 5,000 tours & activities to choose from worldwide. Specialized packages include golf, spa, diving, music, theatre, sports and adventure packages. Flights offered on AirAsiaGo.com are exclusively AirAsia flights with the best rates. AirAsiaGo.com was formerly known as GoHoliday.

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First Published: May 25 2010 | 7:27 PM IST

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