Travelguru, CCD promise innovative experience

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Monday, December 18, 2006: 'Cyber café' gets a whole new meaning as Travelguru, India's leading travel portal, today announced a tie-up with Café Coffee Day to offer enticing gifts over coffee and cake. A steaming cup could bring with it a holiday in hot Goa . a chilled frothy glass a cool getaway in serene Leh. Travel shopping has become little more than a coffee session thanks to two of the country's most innovative and youthful brands!

Starting December all the way to February 2007, select Café Coffee Day outlets in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Chennai and Hyderabad are offering a Travelguru gift voucher with every purchase of Rs.200/- or more. Every such voucher would take as much as Rs. 1000 off on hotel bills and vacation packages and Rs.200/- off on air-flight costs. Both offers are valid for three months.

To add to the excitement around the festive season,Travelguru is the sole sponsor for Café Coffee Day's month-long 'Café Coffee Day Santa' contest. Running through the month of December, covering over 350 Café Coffee Day outlets, customers buying two CCD gift certificates may send an SMS message with the bill number to 9880COFFEE. Travelguru will hand out loads of travel gift vouchers to the winners of a lucky draw. One lucky couple will get to enjoy an experience of a lifetime, by winning the Grand Prize - a 1-night cruise experience for two people, courtesy Travelguru.

"Travelguru's partnership with Café Coffee Day, the leading vendor in the lifestyle retail space, is an exciting opportunity to market travel," said Devyani Nagpal, Chief Marketing Officer-Travelguru . "This strategic partnership will allow Travelguru to offer customers phenomenal deals on weekend getaways, vacation packages, cruises and hotel stays across 72000 hotels and resorts across the Globe . bargains won over a cup of coffee!"

Café Coffee Day Director Naresh Malhotra echoed the enthusiasm: "We are very excited about this strategic partnership with Travelguru, India's largest hotel consolidator. This partnership will help us offer our customers the best in travel deals across hotels, vacations, cruises and airfares and meet their holiday needs. This makes their visit to Café Coffee Day more experiential and rewarding.

Looking to the future, we anticipate offering many innovative travel shopping options, in conjunction with our travel partner Travelguru".

The partnership aims at ultimately providing a unique travel shopping experience to Indian travel customers and making travel very accessible to them. For now though, the crowd that "chills" out at Café Coffee Day can go shopping for great value deals on India's widest range of hotel and vacation options, through Travelguru by just buying their favorite cup of latte!

About Travelguru: Travelguru is a pioneering travel solutions company that offers travelers the opportunity to plan and purchase their travel instantly, be it hotels or flights in a transparent, hassle-free, quick and smart way. Strategic partnerships and alliances with travel industry leaders give Travelguru the edge as an aggregator of travel services. Backed by next generation, real-time, metasearch technology, Travelguru throws up a wider range of travel options for domestic and outbound international travelers.

Promoted by two Harvard Business School alumni with significant travel, technology and corporate experience and a team of experienced professionals from industries such as hospitality, travel & trade, financial services and E-commerce, Travelguru is set to redefine the way India travels.

Travelguru can be found on the World Wide Web at www.Travelguru.com or can be reached by calling the company's toll free customer support center 1-800-22-4878 (GURU), 1-800-102-4878, 022-40304878 or 080-22273080.

About CCD: Café Coffee Day is part of India's largest coffee conglomerate, Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company Ltd. (ABCTCL), a Rs. 400 crore ISO 9002 certified company and the first to roll out the 'coffee bar' concept in India with its first café in Bangalore. Café Coffee Day serves the coffee it grows on the 6000 acres of its own estates plus another 2500 acres of managed estates, and is India's only vertically integrated coffee company.

Café Coffee Day's menu ranges from hot and cold coffees to several exotic international coffees, food items, desserts and pastries. In addition, exciting merchandise such as caps, T - shirts, mugs, badges etc are available at the cafés. The coffee is attractively priced between Rs. 16/- and Rs. 65/- while food items and desserts are priced between Rs. 15/- and Rs. 60/-.