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06/03/2007
New GoQuo Office Signs Three New Malaysian Customers –
And Gets Official Backing As Part Of Malaysia’s
Knowledge Economy Drive
London, 6 March 2007
– Fast-growing online technology solutions specialist GoQuo Ltd
(www.goquo.com) today announced that its recently-established
Kuala Lumpur office has won three new travel industry customers
in a matter of weeks. It has also received official government
designation as a Malaysia Status Company (MSC).
Three New Customers
Validating GoQuo’s strategic decision to create a Kuala Lumpur
office, it has recently won three new Malaysian travel trade
customers, including Malaysia Holiday Tours, part of Malaysia’s
largest corporate travel agency, which has implemented GoQuo’s
GQDynamic dynamic packaging solution.
Abacus-powered Holiday Tours is the first Malaysian agency to
offer online dynamic packaging services through its
recently-launched B2C web site. This provides online customers
with more choice and value by providing real-time access to a
full range of look-and-book choices for air, hotel and car
content, as well as travel insurance and package holidays.
GoQuo has also signed with MSL Travel, Malaysia’s leading
student and youth travel agency that handles thousands of young
travellers every year. Established in 1976 and affiliated to
world student travel bodies, MSL is Malaysia’s only specialist
in this sector, offering a full range of flight, accommodation
and tour products, as well as important services such as visa
advice and insurance.
MSL has made the strategic decision to evolve its business model
towards internet-based services as its core student market is
‘web savvy’. GoQuo will implement its GQAgent flight booking
engine on MSL’s web site, customising it to MSL’s requirements.
GoQuo’s third new Malaysian customer is Sedunia Travel, also
established in 1976, which offers a full range of flight, car
and hotel booking services, plus its particular specialism in
escorted group tours and tour packages for inbound and outbound
leisure and corporate travellers. Sedunia is launching a new
website mainly targeting leisure travellers, though it will also
offer business travel services. GoQuo’s GQAgent solution will
enable Sedunia to provide real-time booking of flights (drawn
from its own contracts as well as Abacus inventory), hotels and
car rental.
Malaysia Status Company Recognition
This official status will enable GoQuo Malaysia to continue
developing and tailoring its core online travel technology and
dynamic packaging solutions to the needs of the Malaysian and
wider Far East travel industry.
MSC is awarded to local and foreign businesses developing or
using multimedia technologies to produce or enhance their
products or services. It is based on employing local workers,
encouraging technology transfer, contributing towards Malaysia’s
knowledge economy, locating in a designated ‘cyber city’, and
complying with environmental guidelines. In return, MSC
organisations benefit from a range of official incentives and
grants to help expand their business and influence.
GoQuo managing director and founder Ron Ramanan said: “This
combination of news is tremendously exciting for GoQuo and its
strategic plans for expansion. Our decision to set up a
satellite office in Kuala Lumpur is fully vindicated and with
MSC recognition, we can really drive forward our regional
product development and sales plans. Malaysia is a real hotbed
of technology development, and we look forward to giving and
getting new insights into how our online technology vision can
support the goals of travel businesses across the Far East.
“We’re also thrilled that three major names in the Malaysian
travel industry have chosen GoQuo as their technology partner,
and are fully confident that with our solutions, they’ll be
driving more business and revenue.”
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About
GoQuo
Positioned at the forefront of travel technology, GoQuo is a
dynamic, established software solutions provider in the UK.
Headquartered in London, GoQuo products are used by UK, US,
European, Asian and Australian travel clients to give them a
more dynamic presence in the online travel marketplace, and to
help travel companies fulfil their market expansion plans and
optimise their efficiency with robust and cost-effective
technology solutions.
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