Leading online travel company expands to Thailand

BANGKOK, 29 February 2012 (NNT) – A world’s leading online travel agency is eying growth potential in Thailand’s online travel market by launching its Thailand website.

Expedia Inc., the world's leading online travel company has announced the launch of its new Thailand website – www.expedia.co.th, Thailand’s first ever one-stop shop offering flight and dynamic holiday packages to Thai consumers at low prices.

This is Expedia’s second full-service website in Southeast Asia (after Singapore in October 2011), underscoring the company’s rapid expansion plans in this region.

Operated by AirAsiaExpedia, a joint venture between Expedia Inc. and AirAsia, Expedia.co.th has been designed specifically for the Thai travelers and offers attractive prices in hotels and travel destinations worldwide.

From today until March 9, the company is offering special promotions to celebrate its launch, please visit www.expedia.co.th.

-- NNT 2012-02-29

Obviously Air Asia will be getting a lot of advertising, and probably their flights being at the top of the lists everytime.

Expedia launches full service in Thai

BANGKOK:-- Expedia Inc, the world's largest online travel company, Tuesday launched a full-service website in Thai and plans to introduce it across Southeast Asia in local languages to cash in on the travel boom, partly driven by the Asean Economic Community coming up in 2015 and the mushrooming of lowcost carriers.

"Thailand has been one of our most popular destinations for our Expedia sites across Asia, particularly for our Japanese, Indian and Singaporean online travellers. With the launch of Expedia Thailand, we will now be able to offer simple online booking to Thai consumers, for both domestic and international travel," said Dan Lynn, CEO of AirAsiaExpedia Co.

www.expedia.co.th is the second portal after Singapore, which opened in October last year.

-- The Nation 2012-02-28

what is really needed is a se asia priceline that does not need flight coming/going to usa. although i'm sure it will serve a good market here, especiallly the english portion of market.

i wonder how their vacation packages wil be managed.

Edited March 1, 201214 yr by 4evermaat

Means nothing- they are probably looking at setting up a call centre here.

I love their cached fare data that says Unable to locate the fare but we have found XXXX more.

Expedia uses either local consolidators for content or GDS rates-still better to book direct with the airline.