DGAP-News: hotel.de AG: Booking volumes rise 19.3% to Euro 95.62 million in fourth quarter of 2010
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hotel.de AG: Booking volumes rise 19.3% to Euro 95.62 million in
fourth quarter of 2010
10.01.2011 / 10:14
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Booking volumes rise 19.3% to Euro 95.62 million in fourth quarter of 2010
Nuremberg, 10 January 2011* - hotel.de AG ended the 2010 financial year on
a positive note, with a 19.3% increase in booking volumes to Euro 95.62
million in the fourth quarter (Q4 2009: Euro 80.17 million). International
booking volumes grew by 18.0% from Euro 33.76 million to Euro 39.84
million, thus accounting for around 41.6% of total booking volumes. As
already in previous quarters, booking volumes in France (measured in terms
of hotel location) showed especially marked growth of 27.5%. The domestic
business improved by 20.2% from Euro 46.41 million to Euro 55.78 million.
For 2010 as a whole, hotel.de AG generated booking volumes totalling Euro
392.08 million, thus not only exceeding the previous year's figure by
12.4%, but also beating the previous record figure reported in 2008. 'This
growth in booking volumes has been driven by our intense investment in
acquiring new customers and internationalising our business model. Not only
that, demand for inexpensive online reservation systems is on the increase.
As one of the leading providers in the market, we are benefiting from this
trend', commented Dr. Heinz Raufer, CEO of hotel.de AG.
Net commissionable checkout volumes, equivalent to the overnight
accommodation eligible for commission actually taken up in the period under
report, amounted to Euro 81.37 million in the fourth quarter of 2010 (Q4
2009: Euro 75.40 million). Net commissionable checkout volumes for the
twelve-month period from January to December thus amounted to Euro 319.83
million (previous year: Euro 305.53 million).
Number of bookings exceeds two-million mark for first time
At 2,013,818, the number of bookings made also exceeded the two-million
mark for the first time in 2010 as a whole (previous year: 1,821,253). The
fourth quarter accounted for 498,357 bookings, equivalent to a year-on-year
improvement of 14.3% (Q4 2009: 436,012). Average reservation volumes per
booking have also risen further, a development mainly due to the
year-on-year increase in the average length of stay per booking.
* The booking figures stated here correspond to the data enquiry as of
03.01.2011. Booking figures may be reduced by subsequent cancellations.
hotel.de AG
hotel.de AG, with its international brand hotel.info, operates a free hotel
reservation service for companies and private customers at www.hotel.de and
www.hotel.info. The company offers more than 210,000 hotels worldwide for
booking online. Customers benefit in this respect from considerable cost
savings. hotel.de shows all available room rates for each hotel, thus
always enabling customers to select the lowest or most appropriate rate.
All bookings are forward simultaneously, securely and directly to the
individual hotel. This is guaranteed by the unique integration of hotels'
own reservation systems (so-called CRS and PMS systems) and hotel.de's own
myRES reservation system under hotel.de's standard user surface. hotel.de's
corporate application is already used by well-known companies, such as
BASF, SAP AG, Texas Instruments and Ernst&Young AG. Since January 2007,
hotel.de has extended its portfolio to include a conference enquiries and
booking system. Business customers in particular stand to save time and
money due to the optimised conference organisation processes facilitated by
this conference tool.
hotel.info
hotel.info - the international brand of hotel.de AG - was created to
promote the company's expansion into international markets. To acquire new
customers and hotels abroad, sales offices have already been opened in the
UK (London), France (Paris), Spain (Barcelona), Italy (Rome) and China
(Shanghai). The company's high share of business customers with
international operations facilitates its entry into new markets. The aim is
to establish hotel.info as the leading online hotel reservation service for
business and private customers in the foreign markets mentioned and then
step by step across the whole of Europe.
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Press contact:
hotel.de AG
Timo Vavrinec
Hugo-Junkers-Str. 15-17
90411 Nuremberg
Tel: +49 (0)911-59832-0
Fax: +49 (0)911-59832-11
E-mail: presse(at)hotel.de
www.hotel.de
Haubrok Investor Relations GmbH&Co. KG
Simone Cujai
Tel: +49 (0)211-171835-37
Fax: +49 (0)211-171835-38
E-mail: s.cujai(at)haubrok.de
www.haubrok.de
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Language: English
Company: hotel.de AG
Hugo-Junkers-Str. 15-17
90411 Nürnberg
Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0)911 59832 2600
Fax: +49 (0)911 5983 211
E-mail: vavrinec(at)hotel.de
Internet: www.hotel.de
ISIN: DE0006910938
WKN: 691093
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (General Standard);
Freiverkehr in Düsseldorf, München, Stuttgart
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