HotelsCombined.com still calls Australia home partnering with Australian Online Travel

Submitted by HotelsCombined.com on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 05:22.

Sydney, October 8, 2008 – The world’s leading hotel price comparison search engine HotelsCombined.com is getting back to their grass roots by partnering with Australian Online Travel websites NeedItNow.com.au and TravelMate.com.au.

Thanks to this new partnership, leisure and business travelers now have access to search live availability and real-time rates from Australian Online Travel websites on HotelsCombined.com. More over, HotelsCombined.com extends this supplier partnership to advertise on their 5,000 affiliate websites offering the opportunity to increase online presence and gain international exposure to NeedItNow.com.au and TravelMate.com.au.

Yury Shar, HotelsCombined.com Managing Director commented, “Australian Online Travel strengthens our services in the Australian market and yields better quality results for our customers”.

Regarding this latest partnership, Sean Cummins, Australian Online Travel General Manager of Business Development remarked, “What’s great about HotelsCombined.com is that they direct consumers to the optimal hotel deal and through this partnership we can contribute to this offering”.

About HotelsCombined.com

HotelsCombined.com is headquartered in Sydney, Australia and was founded in 2005 by former Executives from HotelClub.com, RatesToGo.com and Stella Hospitality Group.
HotelsCombined.com has partnered with more than 30 of the most visited travel websites to build the world's largest hotel price comparison search engine giving consumers access to over 900,000 hotel deals and eliminating the need to search multiple hotel reservation sites one-by-one to find the best available rates. For more information, please visit http://www.HotelsCombined.com

About Australia Online Travel

Australian Online Travel is headquartered in Sydney, Australia and is the online division of the AOT Group. Established in 2000, Australian Online Travel has grown to become one of Australasia's leading online travel companies offering both last minute accommodation deals and an extensive range of accommodation, touring and sightseeing products which are available year round. For more information, please visit http://www.NeedItNow.com.au and http://www.TravelMate.com.au

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For further information please contact:

Vicki Byrne
Director of Business Development
Tel: +61 2 8011 4192
http://www.HotelsCombined.com

Sean Cummins
General Manager of Business Development
Tel: +61 2 8248 2334
http://www.TravelMate.com.au
http://www.NeedItNow.com.au

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