ASIA Travel Tips.com signs agreement with Great Eagle Hotel Hong Kong

For Immediate Release.

(22 April 2000 - Bangkok, Thailand) TravelNewsAsia.com has expanded its online secure hotel booking facilities, with a new agreement signed with the Great Eagle Hotel in Hong Kong. The agreement which takes effect on 22 April 2000 will allow visitors to https://www.asiatraveltips.com to make bookings directly and securely with special Internet rates, from the Great Eagle Hotel.

The partnership will give the Great Eagle Hotel in Hong Kong a page within the site with enlargeable pictures, textual information, and special room rates. The page can be seen at https://www.asiatraveltips.com/GreatEagleHotelHongKong.htm. Steven Howard publisher of TravelNewsAsia.com commented "We are very proud to be working in partnership with this 5 star hotel in Hong Kong, we have received a lot of requests from our viewers for more hotels to be added to the site, so that ultimately they have more choice available to them. With this now being put in place we are able to take our viewers from the planning and tip stage right through to the booking of the hotel they choose. The Great Eagle Hotel in Hong Kong is the first property in Hong Kong to go online fully with us, and we are now working on the pages of 10 other leading hotels in Hong Kong."

This partnership emphasises the importance of e-commerce and the strength of the internet. With online hotel bookings growing at incredibly fast rates, the hotel and the website will both gain from the additional exposure as will the guests to the site who now have even more options.

Mr. Kevin E. Chuc, Director of Sales of the Hotel said, "The Great Eagle Hotel was one of the first in Hong Kong to recognise the increasing importance of the Internet as a means of reaching customers and potential customers directly. Our own website www.gehotel.com has just received a PATA Gold Award for its innovative use of web technology. We believe that the innovative marrying of editorial content and direct bookings provided by www.asiatraveltips.com presents an excellent opportunity for us to continue to stay ahead in the race for online bookings, catering to today's consumer preference"

TravelNewsAsia.com, is a leading travel website for the Asian markets, offering viewers, the latest travel news, special hotel rates, secure online hotel bookings, Premier Awards for Excellence, in-depth reviews, of restaurants, hotels, bars, transport, and shopping, plus travel trade show reviews, travel trade show accomodation, airline tips, special promotions, picture galleries, message board, and chat .

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