HATA Approves asia-hotels.com as Member

March 6th, 2000

Press Release

Hong Kong, Monday, March 6th, 2000 - Hong Kong-based asia-hotels.com has been approved by the Hong Kong Association of Travel Agents (HATA) as an associate member. Specialising in Asia, asia-hotels.com features an extensive database of hotels and resorts and offers online reservation services for both business and leisure travellers.

"We welcome the membership of asia-hotels.com," commented HATA Chairman, Mr Ken Chang. "E-commerce is fast becoming a way of life and HATA as the forerunner of the travel trade associations welcomes new technology and its application to the traditional method of doing business. We hope that more similar members will join our Association."

"HATA's acceptance of asia-hotels.com as an associate member is an important step toward expanding to a full travel service in Asia" commented Jon Stonham, Managing Director of asia-hotels.com. The website provides comprehensive information on each hotel, a full list of facilities, photographs and discount Internet rates as well as hotel reviews from past customers.

Asia-hotels.com recently signed an MOU with Pacfusion.com, the e-business unit of Singapore-based Pacific Internet to offer online hotel reservations and has an agreement with Malaysia Online to power MOL's Hotel Street, which went live earlier this year.