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01/03/2007
GOQUO AT THE TRAVEL DISTRIBUTION SUMMIT ASIA 2007
NEW GOQUO
OFFICE SIGNS THREE NEW MALAYSIAN CUSTOMERS
- GETS OFFICIAL BACKING AS PART OF MALAYSIA’S KNOWLEDGE
ECONOMY DRIVE -
- Win a $10,000 GoQuo flight booking engine at Travel
Distribution Summit Asia -
London, 1 March 2007 – Fast-growing online technology
solutions specialist GoQuo Ltd (www.goquo.com) today
announced that its recently-established Kuala Lumpur
office has won three new travel industry customers in a
matter of weeks. It has also received official
government designation as a Malaysia Status Company
(MSC).
Three New Customers
Validating GoQuo’s strategic decision to create a Kuala
Lumpur office, it has recently won three new Malaysian
travel trade customers, including Malaysia Holiday
Tours, part of Malaysia’s largest corporate travel
agency, which has implemented GoQuo’s GQDynamic dynamic
packaging solution.
Abacus-powered Holiday Tours is the first Malaysian
agency to offer online dynamic packaging services
through its recently-launched B2C web site. This
provides online customers with more choice and value by
providing real-time access to a full range of
look-and-book choices for air, hotel and car content, as
well as travel insurance and package holidays.
GoQuo has also signed with MSL Travel, Malaysia’s
leading student and youth travel agency that handles
thousands of young travellers every year. Established in
1976 and affiliated to world student travel bodies, MSL
is Malaysia’s only specialist in this sector, offering a
full range of flight, accommodation and tour products,
as well as important services such as visa advice and
insurance.
MSL has made the strategic decision to evolve its
business model towards internet-based services as its
core student market is ‘web savvy’. GoQuo will implement
its GQAgent flight booking engine on MSL’s web site,
customising it to MSL’s requirements.
GoQuo’s third new Malaysian customer is Sedunia Travel,
also established in 1976, which offers a full range of
flight, car and hotel booking services, plus its
particular specialism in escorted group tours and tour
packages for inbound and outbound leisure and corporate
travellers. Sedunia is launching a new website mainly
targeting leisure travellers, though it will also offer
business travel services. GoQuo’s GQAgent solution will
enable Sedunia to provide real-time booking of flights
(drawn from its own contracts as well as Abacus
inventory), hotels and car rental.
Malaysia Status Company Recognition
This official status will enable GoQuo Malaysia to
continue developing and tailoring its core online travel
technology and dynamic packaging solutions to the needs
of the Malaysian and wider Far East travel industry.
MSC is awarded to local and foreign businesses
developing or using multimedia technologies to produce
or enhance their products or services. It is based on
employing local workers, encouraging technology
transfer, contributing towards Malaysia’s knowledge
economy, locating in a designated ‘cyber city’, and
complying with environmental guidelines. In return, MSC
organisations benefit from a range of official
incentives and grants to help expand their business and
influence.
GoQuo managing director and founder Ron Ramanan said:
“This combination of news is tremendously exciting for
GoQuo and its strategic plans for expansion. Our
decision to set up a satellite office in Kuala Lumpur is
fully vindicated and with MSC recognition, we can really
drive forward our regional product development and sales
plans. Malaysia is a real hotbed of technology
development, and we look forward to giving and getting
new insights into how our online technology vision can
support the goals of travel businesses across the Far
East.
“We’re also thrilled that three major names in the
Malaysian travel industry have chosen GoQuo as their
technology partner, and are fully confident that with
our solutions, they’ll be driving more business and
revenue.”
Win A GoQuo Flight Booking Engine
Visitors to GoQuo’s stand (Stand 16) at Travel
Distribution Summit Asia 2007 can enter a competition
towin a GQAgent flight booking engine worth around
$10,000. It can travel agents make the most of their
online presence, and the prize includes solution design,
integration with a preferred GDS, customisation and
implementation. Through GQAgent, agents can access an
ever-growing airline inventory provided by a range of
flight consolidators as well as GDS airline content
which means agents can offer online customers the
maximum flight choice, as well as secure, simple and
fast booking.
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About
GoQuo
Positioned at the forefront of travel technology, GoQuo is a
dynamic, established software solutions provider in the UK.
Headquartered in London, GoQuo products are used by UK, US,
European, Asian and Australian travel clients to give them a
more dynamic presence in the online travel marketplace, and to
help travel companies fulfil their market expansion plans and
optimise their efficiency with robust and cost-effective
technology solutions.
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