| KIE Announces Website Re-launch |
| Thursday, 01 July 2010 00:00 |
New Features Include: Online Hotel Booking Systemwith Preferred Rates for Select Hotels and Ryokan in JapanOnline Discounted Airfare Bookings to be Launched August 1st, 2010!KIE’s Airfare to be integrated into Momondo.com flight searches.
Already Accessible Website Features include: ● New Online Hotel booking system for KIE’s preferred rates at select hotel and ryokan throughout Japan. ● Front Page Japan Travel News Blog ● Japan Tour and Travel Information, including specifics on: -- JR Rail Passes (with special free shipping promo) -- Optional Tours -- Tour Packages -- Special Interest “Exclusive” Tours, including a special fall 2010 tour featuring the Seto Inland Sea Arts Festival -- Suggested Regional and Themed Itineraries ● Travel Tips ● Regularly-issued Japan Travel Newsletter with free sign-up and archive access.
New Online Booking Partnership with KIE and Momondo!
Going live on August 1st, Kintetsu’s website will have an online booking service for discount flights between the United States and Japan. The link at www.japanforyou.com/index.php/air/discount-airfare-to-japan.html is currently active, but the online booking will go live August 1st. In addition, these KIE’s discount flights will be included on the online flight search aggregator, www.Momondo.com, making it even easier for travelers to access Kintetsu’s great Japan airfare deals. Momondo.com is one of the fastest growing airfare search aggregators, searching more than 800 airfare websites, including official airline sites, online travel agencies, and traditional travel agencies’ sites. Momondo will also link www.JapanForYou.com to its user generated Tokyo and Kyoto City Guides (www.momondo.com/City_Guides.aspx) and KIE will include Momondo’s City Guides on its external links page (www.japanforyou.com/index.php/helpful-links/)
About KIE/Kintetsu International
Established in 1955, KIE’s parent company “Kinki Nippon Tourist,” headquartered in Tokyo Japan, is one of the world’s top full service travel agencies with over 350 branches worldwide and an annual sales volume of over $6 billion. KIE’s first branch in the USA opened in San Francisco n 1965. Today, KIE operates five strategically placed branches in the USA with over 100 employees. They are a member of the prestigious, Ensemble Travel Group, and were listed as the 27th largest travel agency in the United States, on Travel Weekly’s 2010 Power List of all US travel agencies. Using their global resources, Kintetsu has the leverage and purchasing power to offer the best airfare and hotel rates worldwide, for corporations and the leisure market.
Bill Sarcona, Asst. General Manager KIE / Kintetsu International 1290 Avenue of the Americas, Ste. 900, New York, NY 10104 T: 212-259-9722 | F: 212-259-9595 Email:
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About Momondo
Momondo was launched in 2006 and in three years has grown to become one of Denmark’s top websites across all categories, not just travel. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Momondo has received the 2010 Danish e-commerce prize within the travel and tourism category and Norway's largest newspaper, World Gang (VG), and the Norwegian Consumer Council independently elected Momondo as the best player in the electronic travel reservation marketplace. In addition, as of April 6, 2010, Momondo established a partnership with Swedish TV4 and Expressen, Sweden’s second largest newspaper. Momondo is growing steadily in the United States and has been recommended by The New York Times, CNN, CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and was recently chosen as the top travel website by travel authority Arthur Frommer. |
