Fact Sheet

General

• Created in 2005 by co-founders Yury Shar, Brendon McQueen and Michael Doubinski
• Australian owned and operated
• Features over 350,000 hotels worldwide
• Over 2 million hotel deals in over 120,000 destinations
• Aggregates prices from a variety of online travel agents and hoteliers including Hotels.com, Expedia.com, Priceline.com, Booking.com, Agoda.com, HotelClub.com, Intercontinental Hotel Group and Best Western Hotels among others
• Available in 28 languages and in over 220 countries
• Supports 120 currencies
• Visited by 17 million people a month
• Experienced a user growth of 67% (from 79 million to 132 million) between 2011 and 2012
• Contains 4 million hotel images and 3.5 million hotel descriptions and maps
• Available as an app for iPhone and Android

Awards and Accolades

• Awarded tenth place in the 2011 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Australia list, which recognizes technology companies both public and private that have achieved the fastest rates of annual revenue growth in Australia during the past three years (2009 to 2011)
• Named one of the top 10 websites at the 2011 TRAVELtech Web Awards
• Named one of the best money-saving websites in October 2011 by The Independent in the UK
• Awarded ninth place in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2010 Ranking, which recognizes technology companies both public and private that have achieved the fastest rates of annual revenue growth in the Asia-Pacific region during the past three years (2008 to 2010)
• Awarded second place in the 2010 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Australia list, which ranks the 50 fastest growing public or private technology companies in Australia based on percentage revenue growth over three years (2008 to 2010)
• Named a finalist in the 2010 Telstra Australian Business Awards (New South Wales)
• Awarded Website of the Year and Best Accommodation Website at the 2010 TRAVELtech Web Awards
• Named “Website of the Week” in June 2010 by The Daily Mail in the UK
• Named one of the best budget travel websites in June 2010 by Arthur Frommer of Frommer’s Travel Guides
• Named one of the best hotel booking sites by travel writer Pauline Frommer in a May 2010 Toronto Star article
• Named one of the top 10 websites at the 2009 TRAVELtech Web Awards

Affiliates

• HotelsCombined currently boasts over 20,000 affiliates across the globe
• Big-name affiliates include Ryanair, Holland.com (official site of the Netherlands Board of Tourism), Skyscanner.net and Visitabudhabi.ae (official site of tourism for Abu Dhabi)
• A completely unique feature of the HotelsCombined affiliate program is the 100% up-time SLA (service-level agreement), whereby HotelsCombined guarantees to its affiliate partners that there will never be a site outage. In the event that one occurs, HotelsCombined will credit the affiliate partner ALL the lost earnings for that period (calculated pro-rata) – no other affiliate program offers this feature.
• Proprietary software allows HotelsCombined to constantly monitor affiliate partner activity and detect any untoward practices, such as cookie stuffing and other click fraud. This ensures that vast majority of genuine affiliate partners are protected from the misleading behaviour of the very few.

Partner Suppliers

• HotelsCombined aggregates search results from 40 different partner suppliers including Agoda.com, Booking.com, Best Western, Expedia, HotelClub, Hotels.com, Priceline.com and ebookers.com

Community Involvement

• HotelsCombined supports an international education support scheme that provides students and staff of any tertiary educational institution with a 10 per cent discount (visit hotelscombined.com/education_support for a full list of participating suppliers)
• HotelsCombined developed the Green Hotels and Responsible Tourism Initiative, an educational resource designed to help travellers, hoteliers, and local communities develop and promote environmental, social, and cultural sustainability by increasing awareness of issues affecting tourism and showcasing best green practices for hoteliers (green.hotelscombined.com)
• We have raised $13,985 USD in fundraising initiatives for major charities like the Make a Wish Foundation, World Vision and the World Wildlife Fund.

About HotelsCombined.com

HotelsCombined.com is the world’s leading hotel price comparison search engine. The site streamlines more than 2 million real-time international hotel deals into one simple and efficient format, aggregating prices from multiple hotels simultaneously. Available in over 220 countries and in 28 different languages, more than 17 million users visit the site monthly. With no mark-up fees or additional booking fees, HotelsCombined.com offers travellers a completely free and invaluable tool for finding unbeatable hotel deals.

Media Contact

Kristen McKenzie