MediaCorp Press partners Asia Pacific travel search Bezurk.com to launch new hotel search service
Singapore, March 5th, 2007 - MediaCorp Press is proud to partner Asia Pacific travel search engine, Bezurk.com for the launch of a new hotel search service for users of todayonline.com website.
TODAY is the flagship newspaper of MediaCorp Press, which is part of MediaCorp. Under the agreement, Bezurk.com will provide a hotel meta-search service that is able to search dozens of hotel suppliers in real-time to check the pricing and availability of more than 100,000 hotels worldwide.
Powerful yet easy to use, sorting, filtering and comparison tools are provided to help users find the absolute best travel deal.
“MediaCorp Press is committed to giving todayonline.com users practical solutions to everyday problems,” says Mr Walter Fernandez, Managing Editor, MediaCorp Press. “We are excited to team with Bezurk.com to allow our users such an innovative way of searching for the best travel deals on the web.”
Says Mr Martin Symes, Bezurk’s CEO, “Todayonline.com is one of Singapore’s most popular websites and is visited daily by many Singaporeans for their news fix. As a Singapore-based Internet start-up, we are thrilled to welcome such a large and distinguished company as MediaCorp Press for a distribution partner. This distribution will greatly increase the exposure in Singapore of our travel partners, extending their reach to the hundreds of thousands of todayonline.com visitors.”
Jointly issued by MediaCorp Press and Bezurk
For more information, please contact:
Joni Ng
Marketing Manager
MediaCorp Press
Tel: (65) 6236 4910
Fax: (65) 6532 4966
E-mail: joni.ng@mediacorp.com.sg
Steven Gong
Manager, Strategy
Bezurk Pte Ltd
Tel: (65) 6438 8242
E-mail: steven@bezurk.com
About MediaCorp Press
TODAY is the flagship newspaper of MediaCorp Press, which is part of MediaCorp. MediaCorp, the largest broadcaster in Singapore, offers a complete range of media businesses: TV, Radio, Entertainment Productions, Movie Productions, Newspapers, Magazines, Electronic Media and other broadcasting services.
TODAY, a free newspaper, offers busy working people quality content in a convenient, compact format. Each day some 584,000 readers in Singapore find in TODAY an unrivalled package of the top local and international news and views. News reports are succinct and commentaries, thought provoking.
For weekend reading, WEEKEND TODAY offers not just the news but also lively and highly readable features and profiles, and also WH?CH, a guide to some of the best deals in fashion, food, gadgets, cars and property.
The newspaper is delivered to homes and offices Mondays to Saturdays and is also available at MRT stations, bus interchanges, selected food and beverage outlets, office buildings and shopping malls. It is also available round-the-clock on the Internet at www.todayonline.com
About Bezurk (www.bezurk.com)
Bezurk.com is a comparison-shopping web site that helps travelers from the Asia-Pacific region search for flights, hotels, rental cars, packages and tours across a multitude of travel websites. Bezurk searches suppliers like the airlines and hotel chains directly but also includes hotel aggregators and online travel agents. Searching is done in real-time so that results show only the latest pricing and availability. Bezurk links travelers directly through to partner websites to book.