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							<title>BOOKING DELIGHTFUL!</title> 
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	AMSTERDAM - January 22, 2013 - The world&rsquo;s best-kept travel secret is about to be revealed to U.S. consumers. Booking.com (http://www.booking.com), the largest brand in the global online accommodation sector, is set to bring an end to the &ldquo;click-and-hope-for-the-best&rdquo; era of online travel planning.

	Planet Earth&rsquo;s #1 accommodation site, is undertaking a major brand launch in the U.S. to introduce American travelers to a delightful booking experience that has already been tried, tested and trusted by millions of accommodation bookers around the world. Today, Booking.com&rsquo;s first-ever U.S. brand campaign, Booking.yeah, launches online, in movie theaters and on TV networks across the country to bring Booking.com to an American travel sector that is ripe for innovation and ready for an online solution that prioritizes the customer experience. Booking.yeah aims to build awareness of the company&rsquo;s commitment to the &ldquo;delight of right&rdquo;.

	&ldquo;Travel and accommodation planning can be a gamble,&rdquo; says Paul Hennessy, Booking.com&rsquo;s Chief Marketing Officer. &ldquo;We want U.S. travelers to experience that moment of pure delight when they open the door of the accommodation they have booked, see that they have got everything exactly right, and know that this is going to be an amazing trip.&rdquo;

	&ldquo;We are the place on the Internet where travelers can find a home-away-from-home that meets their budget and surpasses their expectations, whether they are booking for an overnight business trip or the vacation of a lifetime.&rdquo; And that&rsquo;s the focus of the Booking.yeah campaign.

	Already, on average more than one million guests a night&mdash;that&rsquo;s last night, tonight and every night&mdash;are staying in hotels and other accommodations booked on Booking.com&rsquo;s platform. The company is the most significant subsidiary of parent company Priceline (NASDAQ: PCLN), both in terms of its size as well as its scope, making Booking.com the largest brand in the global online travel industry. Last month, J.D. Power & Associates ranked Booking.com the top travel website for customer satisfaction.

	
	&ldquo;The American online travel market is highly commoditized,&rdquo; says Todd Dunlap, Booking.com&rsquo;s Managing Director for North America, who is spearheading the company&rsquo;s brand launch onto the U.S. market. &ldquo;Booking.com is here to provide a refreshingly new and delightful experience for those who care about where they stay. Lowest prices are guaranteed, of course, but ours is also a simple website with an amazing array of property choices. Our real and unedited guest reviews and superior customer service make an amazing solution for American travelers. Once American consumers notice the ease and joy of Booking.com, they will realize it&rsquo;s something unlike anything they&rsquo;ve ever experienced before.&rdquo;

	Booking.com offers the best prices at all of its 265,000+ listed properties, covering over 46,000 destinations in 178 countries, plus:
	&bull; Over 17.5 million genuine reviews submitted by guests who booked their stay with Booking.com
	&bull; Pay after you stay for almost all accommodations
	&bull; Maximum flexibility for customers, meaning most accommodations can be canceled free of charge up to 24 hours before arrival
	&bull; Easy access from your desktop, tablet or mobile
	&bull; A Booking.com customer service team available 24/7, 365 days per year in your language
	&bull; Over 5,000 people in over 50 countries around the world dedicated to having guests experience the delight of getting it right.
	&bull; 25 different property types&mdash;from hotels, apartments and villas to hostels, farm stays, bungalows and boats.

	The Booking.Yeah advertising campaign was created by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam.
	Click here to view and link to the &lsquo;Booking.yeah&rsquo; 60 second film.
	Click here to download campaign images from the &lsquo;Booking.yeah&rsquo; film in high resolution.
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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							<title>Booking.com Launches ‘Booking.yeah’,  Its First-Ever Brand Campaign, Created for the U.S. market</title> 
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	AMSTERDAM - January 22, 2013. Booking.com (http://www.booking.com), Planet Earth&rsquo;s #1 accommodation site, today announced the launch of its first-ever brand campaign. Created for the U.S. market with advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, the campaign will launch today online and in movie theatres and on TV networks across the country.

	Travel and accommodation planning can be a gamble. U.S. travelers are oversupplied with choice and options and undersupplied with vacation time. Getting it wrong can ruin it entirely. But when you get it right, it feels absolutely incredible.

	&ldquo;With over 265,000 participating hotels and accommodations in 178 countries, and over 5,000 people worldwide dedicated to serving travelers since 1996, we believe Booking.com creates more of these incredible moments for people than anybody else&rdquo;, says Paul Hennessy, Booking.com&rsquo;s Chief Marketing Officer. &ldquo;That moment of joy, when you realize just how great your accommodation is, and how amazing your trip is going to be, is the focus of the campaign.&rdquo;

	The campaign transforms the word &ldquo;booking&rdquo; from a simple transaction and company name into an adjective for the sheer, unbridled joy and satisfaction when you open the door to your accommodation and know you&rsquo;ve got it right. It is an adjective for those moments of delight that Booking.com uniquely delivers to its customers.

	W+K Executive Creative Director Mark Bernath comments, &ldquo;The accommodation sets the tone for the trip. When it&#39;s wrong, the trip can never be what you&#39;ve imagined. But when it&#39;s right, you have won. You will sleep amazingly well. You will be funnier and more charming.&nbsp; And those who have entrusted you with the booking will consider you to have superhuman decision-making powers. You are a booking genius.&rdquo;

	
	The &lsquo;Booking.yeah&rsquo; campaign will launch with a 60 second film carrying the same title, which will air online and across the U.S. on TV networks and in movie theatres. The &lsquo;Booking.yeah&rsquo; film will be followed by a further series of films (both 30 and 15 seconds); all directed by the infamous collective Traktor &ndash; with each individual narrative extoling the delight of right in a different fashion.

	The films will be complemented by a range of online and experiential activations, providing further consumer engagement through a series of elaborations on the &ldquo;Delight of Right&rdquo;.

	Quick facts about &lsquo;Booking.yeah&rsquo; campaign
	&bull; Films directed by the award-winning filmmaker collective Traktor. Founded in Sweden, now based in Los Angeles.
	&bull; Rehearsed and shot over a week in various places in actual Booking.com accommodations.
	&bull; With 16 lead actors (and approximately 50 extras).&nbsp;
	&bull; Media buying by Wieden+Kennedy New York

	Links
	Click here to view and link to the &lsquo;Booking.yeah&rsquo; 60 second film.
	Click here to download campaign images from the &lsquo;Booking.yeah&rsquo; film in high resolution.
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:59:00 +0100</pubDate>
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							<title>Priceline Group Announces Booking.com CEO to Take On Additional Responsibilities</title> 
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	NORWALK, Conn., January 8, 2013 . . . The Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced today that Darren Huston, CEO of Booking.com, has been promoted to take on additional responsibility in the management of the Priceline Group&rsquo;s international brands, Booking.com, Agoda and Rentalcars.com.&nbsp; From his position leading Booking.com, his new responsibilities will include oversight of inter-brand relations, including sharing of technology, best practices, customers and supply, coordination of relationships with key affiliates and suppliers, where necessary, and development of strategy relating to geographic expansion and competition among brands.&nbsp;

	The Group&rsquo;s international brands will continue to operate independently under the direction of their respective leadership teams and Mr. Huston&rsquo;s new role will be a complement to the strategic oversight of Priceline&rsquo;s Group Management Board.

	&ldquo;Darren has done a great job since taking over the CEO role at Booking.com a little more than a year ago,&rdquo; said Jeffery H. Boyd, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of priceline.com.&nbsp; &ldquo;Darren and his team at Booking.com delivered impressive results in 2012, despite a difficult economy in Europe, and he will add real value in working more deeply with our other international businesses.&rdquo;

	About The Priceline Group
	The Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN) is a leader in global online hotel reservations, with over 270,000 participating hotels worldwide. The Group is composed of four primary brands - Booking.com, priceline.com, Agoda.com and Rentalcars.com - and several ancillary brands. The Priceline Group provides online travel services in over 180 countries in Europe, North America, South America, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East and Africa.

	Booking.com is the number one online hotel reservation service in the world, offering over 260,000 hotels (as of January 1, 2013), and is available in 41 languages. More recent hotel counts are available on the Booking.com website. Priceline.com gives leisure travelers multiple ways to save on their airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises. In addition to getting compelling published prices, travelers can take advantage of priceline.com&#39;s famous Name Your Own Price&reg; service, which can deliver the lowest prices available, or the recently added Express DealsSM, where travelers can take advantage of hotel discounts without bidding.

	Agoda.com is an Asia-based online hotel reservation service that is available in 38 languages. Rentalcars.com is a multinational car hire service, offering its reservation services in over 6,000 locations. Customer support is provided in 40 languages.
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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							<title>Booking.com Launches Native Kindle Fire App</title> 
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	AMSTERDAM &ndash; December 6, 2012 &mdash; Booking.com (http://www.booking.com), the world&rsquo;s leading online hotel and accommodation reservation company, today announced the launch of its free native Kindle Fire app in all Amazon&rsquo;s Appstores. The new app allows Booking.com&rsquo;s customers to easily make and access their hotel and accommodation bookings anywhere, anytime via their Kindle Fire devices. The free Booking.com Kindle Fire app is available for download in all Amazon Appstores including the U.S., U.K., Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Japan, and is available for Kindle Fire 7&rdquo;, Kindle Fire HD 7&rdquo;, and Kindle Fire HD 8.9&rdquo; devices. Booking.com consistently seeks to deliver innovation to its tens of millions of worldwide mobile customers, and is one of the first apps to integrate with the Amazon Maps API.&nbsp; The native Kindle Fire app is the latest addition to Booking.com&rsquo;s already popular apps for the Apple, Android, and Windows 8 platforms.

	&ldquo;The Kindle Fire is already a great travel companion, and we are proud to be the largest online hotel and accommodation reservation company to feature a native Kindle Fire app in the Amazon Appstore,&rdquo; said Darren Huston, Chief Executive Officer of Booking.com. &ldquo;Our Kindle Fire users can now easily and quickly connect to the Booking.com cloud on the latest range of Kindle Fire devices, and at the same time receive an enhanced map experience with the integration of Amazon maps &ndash; wherever their journeys might take them.&rdquo;

	The free Booking.com Kindle Fire app offers the full functionality of other Booking.com mobile apps and features:
	&bull; Synchronization via the user&rsquo;s Booking.com account &ndash; easily view bookings, searches and hotels from any Booking.com platform;
	&bull; Over 250,000 properties in 178 countries;
	&bull; 2.6M hotel & other accommodation photos and 17M+ guest reviews;
	&bull; Robust search &ndash; search for hotels from current location or in any of Booking.com&rsquo;s 41,000 destinations around the world;
	&bull; Last minute deals and exclusive deals for newsletter subscribers and Facebook fans;
	&bull; Support for 25 languages and 27 currencies;
	&bull; Post-booking features, e.g. past, current and future bookings available for offline viewing, add booking to device calendar, email booking confirmation, modify or cancel bookings, quick access to 24/7 customer care via email or phone, and view your hotel on the Kindle Fire map.

	The native Booking.com Kindle Fire app is the latest in the Booking.com family of hotel booking apps, which are also available for iOS and Android devices, and through Booking.com&rsquo;s mobile website. Smartphone and tablet bookings at Booking.com exceeded $1 billion in 2011, and that figure has already been surpassed in just the first half of 2012.&nbsp; Booking.com&rsquo;s mobile apps for Android devices have been downloaded more than 4 million times to date.

	According to Amazon, nine of the 10 best-selling products on Amazon.com have been Kindles, Kindle accessories and digital content since the company unveiled new devices on September 6 of this year, and worldwide sales of Kindle devices more than doubled during the 2012 Thanksgiving weekend from the 2011 period.
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:36:00 +0100</pubDate>
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							<title>Booking.com Joins Windows 8 Push with Launch of its First Windows App</title> 
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	AMSTERDAM &ndash; October 29, 2012 &mdash; Booking.com (http://www.booking.com), the world&rsquo;s leading online hotel and accommodation reservation company, today announced the launch of its first Windows 8 app. This free app allows Booking.com&rsquo;s customers to easily make their hotel and accommodation bookings from the new Windows 8 platform using either their Windows 8 PC or Microsoft&rsquo;s new Surface tablet. Booking.com consistently seeks to deliver innovation to its tens of millions of global customers who use multiple screens to discover, book, and enjoy hotels and room accommodations in over 41,000 destinations worldwide. The free Booking.com Windows 8 app can be downloaded here and is recognized by Microsoft as a Windows 8 signature app.

	Booking.com has a strong history of staying ahead of the curve with regard to the implementation and launch of new, innovative technology products relevant for consumers, and is already renowned for its iOS and Android apps, which consistently rank among the top travel apps worldwide based on user feedback.&nbsp; The first Booking.com Windows app will allow Windows 8 users to easily search for and book accommodations in over 41,000 different destinations worldwide and contact customer service agents in their native language.

	Booking.com apps are also available for iOS, Android and through Booking.com&rsquo;s mobile website.&nbsp; In 2011, Booking.com&#39;s customers completed more than $1 billion in transactions on mobile devices.&nbsp; Just in the first half of 2012, this volume has been surpassed, demonstrating the rapid growth of bookings through the mobile channel at Booking.com.&nbsp; Booking.com&rsquo;s apps on iOS and Android have been downloaded more than 10 million times to date.
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:04:00 +0100</pubDate>
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							<title>Booking.com Enables Passbook on Latest Release of iPhone App</title> 
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	AMSTERDAM, 16 October 2012. Booking.com announces today that the latest release of its iPhone app has a new feature: Passbook. Passbook allows users to easily access their hotel and accommodation bookings, along with entry tickets, boarding passes and much more all in one place. Adding Passbook to the app builds upon the seamless multi-device experience Booking.com strives to deliver to its growing base of over 10 million iPhone and iPod touch users. The latest version of the Booking.com iPhone app was released today and can be downloaded for free from the iTunes store.

	&ldquo;I am very pleased that we can offer our iPhone users Passbook to conveniently book and manage their stay. We already see today that over 54 percent of people visiting our mobile website with iOS 6 use Passbook, so we believe our new app will greatly contribute to their overall booking experience,&rdquo; said Darren Huston, Chief Executive Officer Booking.com. &ldquo;Today, we already have more than 10 million mobile app users who can potentially benefit from Passbook and that number is growing rapidly.&rdquo;

	Passbook

	Customers can now add their booking confirmations to Passbook. Because Passbook is both time and location aware, confirmations and tickets show up on the customers&rsquo; iPhone Lock Screen when and where needed. A user only needs to swipe to access them. Passbook is one of the newest features available in Apple&rsquo;s recently released iOS 6 operating system.

	&nbsp;

	Easier, faster booking on the go

	Booking.com customers can access searched and viewed hotels and destinations at any time on any device. Once signed-in to their account, information gets stored in the cloud which allows customers easier and faster booking.
	Huston added: &ldquo;Our data and research show that people are increasingly using multiple devices to search, book, and enjoy accommodations. Either at home, at work, or while traveling. We focus our efforts on creating the best seamless user experience for our customers, so we can support them end-to-end regardless of the devices they choose to use on their journey.&rdquo;

	Booking.com has recently added a lot of new functionalities to the app that help customers once the booking is done:

	
		Booking modifications can easily be done by clicking on the button which automatically connects to Booking.com&rsquo;s customer service available in 41 languages.
	
		Customers will receive a push notification just before their stay to have easy access to their booking confirmation.
	
		Once the guest has arrived, they don&rsquo;t need an internet connection to see everything they need: the accommodation address, phone number and all other booking information is easily accessible on their mobile device.
	
		When connected to the Internet, guests can easily use the integrated route planner upon their arrival to find their way the easy way.
	
		Upon check-in, guests can just show their Passbook or digital confirmation to facilitate a simple paperless check-in.


	
	iPhone, iPod touch, Passbook and iTunes are trademarks of Apple, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. More information about Booking.com&rsquo;s iPhone app can be found here.
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
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							<title>CTRIP and Booking.com Forge Global Travel Partnership</title> 
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	SHANGHAI, CN and AMSTERDAM, NL August 7, 2012. CTRIP.com International, Ltd. (Nasdaq: CTRIP) a leading travel service provider of hotel accommodations, airline tickets, packaged tours and corporate travel management in China (&ldquo;Ctrip&rdquo;) and Booking.com, the world&rsquo;s leading online hotel reservation service and part of the Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN), today announced an agreement under which Ctrip can reach Booking.com&rsquo;s global portfolio of over 235,000 participating hotels through Ctrip&rsquo;s hotel reservation services.

	Ctrip now offers over 50,000 hotels worldwide. Booking.com&rsquo;s hotel inventories will be offered in addition to the participating hotels already in Ctrip&rsquo;s hotel reservation service. The relationship significantly increases Ctrip&rsquo;s total number of available hotels and its global coverage, which will now include the more than 170 countries covered by Booking.com.

	&ldquo;Ctrip has been actively expanding the international travel products to service China&rsquo;s fast growing outbound travel demand,&rdquo; said Mr. Min Fan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ctrip . &ldquo;Booking.com offers the broadest collection of hotel and other accommodation partners worldwide, and we are pleased to work with them and enhance our global hotel offerings.&rdquo;

	&ldquo;Ctrip.com is the leader in China&rsquo;s rapidly growing online travel market and we are excited to work with them and make our global hotel collection available to their customers,&rdquo; said Mr. Darren Huston, Booking.com&rsquo;s Chief Executive Officer. &ldquo;This will also give Booking.com&rsquo;s accommodation partners a new opportunity to serve even more travelers from the Asia-Pacific region.&rdquo;

	About Ctrip.com

	Ctrip.com International, Ltd. is a leading travel service provider of hotel accommodations, airline tickets, packaged tours, and corporate travel management in China. Ctrip aggregates hotel and flight information to enable business and leisure travelers to make informed and cost-effective bookings. Ctrip also books vacation packages and guided tours. In addition, Ctrip corporate travel management services help corporate clients effectively manage their travel requirements. Since its inception in 1999, Ctrip has experienced substantial growth and become one of the best-known travel brands in China.
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
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							<title>Booking.com Launches First Global Last-Minute Hotel App</title> 
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	AMSTERDAM, April 10, 2012 -- Missed your train?&nbsp; Flight delayed?&nbsp; Need a hotel fast?&nbsp; No problem.&nbsp; Today, Booking.com, the world&#39;s leading online hotel reservation company and part of The Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN), launched Booking.com Tonight.&nbsp; Booking.com Tonight is the first global last-minute hotel booking app offering same-night hotel rooms at special savings up to 50% over regular rates, plus the world&#39;s widest variety of accommodations, bookable all the time at the guaranteed lowest price.

	The app, which is designed for iPhone and iPod touch, can be downloaded for free from the iTunes store .

	
	"Booking.com Tonight just makes last-minute booking easier," said Darren Huston, Chief Executive Officer of Booking.com.&nbsp; "Booking.com Tonight taps into Booking.com&#39;s worldwide inventory of more than 200,000 hotels and other accommodations in 165 countries, and delivers great prices on every single booking no matter where you stay."

	
	Booking.com Tonight is the latest in Booking.com&#39;s family of hotel booking apps.&nbsp; In 2011, Booking.com&#39;s customers completed more than $1 billion in transactions on mobile devices.&nbsp; Booking.com decided to create the last-minute app after finding that 40% of its mobile hotel bookings for Los Angeles, New York, London, Hong Kong, Dubai and other international cities are for same-day check-in.

	
	The Booking.com Tonight app is very easy to use.&nbsp; One tap on the app retrieves all the available hotels in the immediate area, including those special last-minute deals.&nbsp; Hotels are booked through a streamlined two-step booking process.&nbsp; The app simplifies check-in by immediately contacting the hotel and automatically saving the booking confirmation to the user&#39;s device.&nbsp; It also provides handy maps for getting from your current location to the hotel.&nbsp; In all, you can get "from app to nap" in 5 taps.

	
	iPhone and iTunes are trademarks of Apple, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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							<title>Darren Huston Named Chief Executive Officer of Booking.com</title> 
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	NORWALK, Conn, September 26, 2011 . . . The Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN) today announced that former Microsoft executive Darren Huston, 45, has been named Chief Executive Officer of Booking.com. Booking.com is part of The Priceline Group and is the number-one online hotel reservation service in the world, offering over 165,000 hotels in 43 languages. As announced earlier this year, Booking.com&rsquo;s previous CEO, Kees Koolen, will transition to Chairman of Booking.com.

	Mr. Huston, who is a Canadian native, brings a deep portfolio of related experience to Booking.com. Since 2008, he served as Microsoft Corporation&rsquo;s Corporate Vice President, Consumer & Online, responsible for the company&rsquo;s consumer and advertising businesses in over 40 countries. From 2005-2008, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Japan, which is the company&rsquo;s largest subsidiary outside the United States. Before joining Microsoft in 2003, Mr. Huston was a Senior Vice President at Starbucks Corporation, responsible for acquisitions and new product development. He has also served as an executive with McKinsey & Company, and as an economic advisor to the Government of Canada. Mr. Huston holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MA/Economics from the University of British Columbia, and a BS/Economics from Ontario&rsquo;s Trent University.

	&ldquo;Darren Huston has extensive knowledge of two landscapes that are very important to the continued success of Booking.com,&rdquo; said Jeffery H. Boyd, President and CEO of Priceline. &ldquo;He is extremely familiar with the online marketing landscape and the strategies that work in different markets around the world. And his leadership of business activities in Japan and 40 other countries position him to understand the global landscape, market conditions, and growth opportunities facing Booking.com.&rdquo; &ldquo;Booking.com is fortunate to bring on board a chief executive of Darren Huston&rsquo;s caliber,&rdquo; said Mr. Koolen. &ldquo;His global familiarity and his online expertise blend extremely well with Booking.com&rsquo;s corporate culture. Our hotel supplier partners and customers around the globe will benefit as he puts his expertise to work on their behalf. I look forward to working with Darren in his new role.&rdquo; &ldquo;The rapid and sustained growth of Booking.com has been incredible,&rdquo; said Mr. Huston. &ldquo;After meeting the team, I attribute this performance in large part to the superior caliber of Booking.com&rsquo;s management and its highly dedicated employees in more than 50 offices around the world. Globally, there are significant opportunities for our business, both in core markets and in developing ones. I look forward to leveraging these opportunities with my new Booking.com and Priceline Group colleagues.&rdquo;

	Commenting on Mr. Koolen&rsquo;s transition to Chairman of Booking.com, Mr. Boyd said, &ldquo;Kees Koolen was a founder of Booking.com B.V. and has served as its Chief Executive Officer since September 2008. Under his leadership, Booking.com has grown to become the number-one hotel reservation service in the world and continues to add market share on a quarterly basis. His guiding of the business has benefitted thousands of hotel supplier partners, employees and investors around the world. We congratulate Kees on an outstanding job and are excited that we will continue to benefit from his guidance in his new role as Chairman.&rdquo;
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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