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TripAdvisor Expands Geographies by Adding Asia, Africa and the Middle East to Its Travel Research Site

Financial Spread Trading NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 2004--TripAdvisor, the leading travel research site, has expanded geographic coverage on its award-winning site (www.tripadvisor.com) by adding Asia, Africa and the Middle East to its worldwide travel destinations. Other geographies recently added to the site include South and Central America, Russia and Turkey.
More than 90 new countries have been added in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, including popular destinations such as China, Japan, India, Israel, Jordan, Egypt and South Africa.

Comsat also has an operation providing communications services in Turkey, as well as to the Middle East, and parts of Europe, Asia and Africa.

Nfl Betting Spread Built to address the frustration experienced by travel consumers using traditional web search engines, TripAdvisor's specialized search technology scours the Internet to find only the most relevant travel articles and opinions available on the web. By expanding its international coverage, TripAdvisor is offering consumers access to the most comprehensive, unbiased information available on the web for travel destinations in more than 200 countries worldwide.

The survey also finds business travellers are more hesitant than their companys travel managers realise to travel to various regions of the world. The Middle East is the region most travellers say they are hesitant to travel to (74 per cent of travellers versus 67 per cent of travel managers), followed by Africa (53 per cent versus 38 per cent), Latin America (46 per cent versus 26 per cent), Asia Pacific (38 per cent versus 18 per cent), Europe (22 per cent versus seven per cent), and North America (11 per cent versus seven per cent).

Commodity Spread Trading "Africa, Asia and the Middle East were the next logical destinations for us to add to our site," said Steve Kaufer, CEO of TripAdvisor. "We want to ensure that TripAdvisor.com covers any popular destination for tourists, and we've added new cities and countries each month based on feedback from our users."

president of supplier relations and joint ventures for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, president of brand marketing and strategy for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

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Amadeus is signing an agreement to provide a global technology platform to Uniglobe Travel. A single platform allows groups like Uniglobe to make the most of their members local expertise and travel management companies to use a business model to extend their geographic reach with a consistent level of service, says Gillian Gibson, Vice President, Multinational Customer Group. The platform will be used by Uniglobe agencies in Europe, Asia, The Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America and will comprise; a travel agency desktop, booking portal and Amadeus Quality Control.

Advanced Commodity Spread TripAdvisor, Inc. provides a comprehensive travel search engine that helps consumers research their travel plans via the web, and gives them direct access to major online travel suppliers, including Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, hotels.com, and American Airlines, for booking upcoming trips. TripAdvisor.com is the 7th most popular travel website worldwide, according to comScore Media Metrix (May, 2004), and has won dozens of awards, including PC Magazine's Top 100 Web Sites and Forbes Best of the Web. The company also offers travel suppliers a performance-based marketing medium that generates average click-through rates of over 10% per page. TripAdvisor is a wholly owned operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (Nasdaq: IACI) and is part of IAC's Local and Media Services Group. For more information, visit http://www.tripadvisor.com/.

A significant number of buyers from Europe, the Far East, the ASEAN region, South Asia, and the Middle East attended Gateway to South Asia, which was held for the fourth successive year. SriLankan Holidays, the package tour arm of the airline, had a large number of special packages at the travel mart; and the airline's domestic service SriLankan Air Taxi provided concessionary rates for travel to its 14 destinations throughout Sri Lanka.

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