Expedia India partners with HT to power Hindustantimes.com's travel section

Expedia.co.in, the world's largest online travel company, announced its partnership with Hindustan Times to power the latter's online travel section. The partnership aims to offer hindustantimes.com users with access to Expedia's comprehensive inventory of travel products, including hotels, flights, cars and holiday packages. As part of the launch Expedia.co.in will also be providing all hindustantiimes.com page visitors with the exciting and exclusive opportunity to answer five questions on five consecutive days and win an absolutely free three-day stay in Goa.

According to Daniel Lynn, Vice President and Managing Director, Expedia Asia-Pacific, "Expedia's comprehensive global travel inventory will provide hindustantimes.com's users with the choice of over 127,000 hotels, 3000 holiday activities and access to over 500 airlines across the world. Additionally a host of interesting travel deals and hotel discounts like the 72 hour sale, Last Minute Deals & Deal Hunter, coupled with Hindustan Times's rich travel content including travelogues and destination guides is sure to provide consumers with a superior booking experience."

From a business point of view, this partnership is part of our larger strategy to come closer to our consumers, through relevant and best-in-class channels like Hindustantimes.com. Going forward, we will continue to make similar investments and to customize and personalize our service offerings for the Indian consumers," he added.

Hindustantimes.com will provide a link on the navigation bar, titled "Travel," which will open a co-branded travel section "Powered By Expedia." The section will provide a wide array of tools like destination guides, extensive vacation packages, photo & video gallery, etc. Expedia will service all transactions resulting from the travel channel.