{"id":33103,"date":"2006-01-25T22:49:22","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T14:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2006\/01\/25\/travelocity-acquires-full-ownership-of-zuji\/"},"modified":"2006-01-25T22:49:22","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T14:49:22","slug":"travelocity-acquires-full-ownership-of-zuji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2006\/01\/25\/33103\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelocity Acquires Full Ownership Of ZUJI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"60\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/travelocity_logo_120x60.gif\" width=\"120\" align=\"right\">In a move that further strengthens its global presence and positions it for additional growth in the Asia-Pacific region, Travelocity has acquired complete ownership of ZUJI, the leading online travel company in the Asia-Pacific region. ZUJI includes operations in Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>ZUJI includes operations in Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan. Travelocity and its affiliates previously owned, directly and indirectly, approximately 13.63% of ZUJI.<\/p>\n<p>In the transaction completed on Jan. 24, 2006 in Singapore, Travelocity purchased the remaining shares in ZUJI from Abacus International Pte. Ltd. and AGC Holdings Ltd., a consortium of 15 airlines in the region, giving Travelocity ownership of 100% of ZUJI. The purchase price was approximately US$34 million.<\/p>\n<p>It is a natural progression for Travelocity to take full ownership of ZUJI and the purchase positions us nicely for future growth in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region and Scott Blume and his team have done a great job building a premier online travel brand and we are excited to have them fully in the Travelocity family, said Michelle Peluso, Travelocity President and CEO. This acquisition, coupled with our acquisitions in Europe last year, demonstrates how we are continuing to expand the Travelocity network globally.<\/p>\n<p>ZUJI's CEO Scott Blume said that this acquisition highlighted ZUJI's potential for growth and its unique position as a leader and innovator in online travel in the Asia-Pacific region. He also said that the change in ownership would not adversely impact the day-to-day operations of ZUJI teams, Web sites, nor its supplier relationships or customer bookings.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to taking advantage of the technology and innovation Travelocity will provide ZUJI as we work to offer customers even more travel choices, greater value, and some clever packaging features when they book on ZUJI, Blume said.<\/p>\n<p>Travelocity has worked closely with ZUJI since ZUJI's launch in 2002, both as an investor and as a technology provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that further strengthens its global presence and positions it for additional growth in the Asia-Pacific region, Travelocity has acquired complete ownership of ZUJI, the leading online travel company in the Asia-Pacific region. ZUJI includes operations in Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}