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CheapTickets
CheapTickets (www.cheaptickets.com) is a U.S. travel website that targets value-conscious customers. CheapTickets
offers customers the ability to search for and book a broad range of travel products and services, including air travel, hotels, car
rentals, cruises, travel insurance, destination services and event tickets from suppliers worldwide on a stand-alone basis or as
part of a vacation package. Customers can also book travel products from their mobile devices through a mobile website
(m.cheaptickets.com). In addition, CheapTickets offers value-oriented promotions such as “Cheap of the Week” which provide
customers with special travel offers on a weekly basis.
Orbitz for Business
Orbitz for Business (www.orbitzforbusiness.com) leverages and customizes our technology expertise for corporate
travelers, offering a complete portfolio of travel products and services that help corporate customers plan, search and book
business travel. In addition to its leading technology, Orbitz for Business delivers full service, cost-effective travel products and
travel management solutions, including 24/7 support along with expense reporting and policy management tools. Orbitz for
Business also offers an end-to-end mobile solution that allows business travelers to search for and book flights, hotels and car
rentals directly from any web-enabled smartphone through its mobile website (m.orbitzforbusiness.net). Through partnerships
with leading regional corporate travel agencies, Orbitz for Business offers its services in over 75 countries across Europe, Latin
America, Africa, Asia (including China and India) and the Pacific Rim. In the first quarter of 2012, Orbitz for Business
launched Orbitz for Business Express to offer savings, convenience and professional travel services to small businesses with
travel needs, including those currently without a managed travel program.
ebookers
ebookers (www.ebookers.com) is a leading pan-European online travel agency that offers customers the ability to search
for and book a broad range of global travel products and services through websites in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland,
France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Customers can book travel
products and services, including airline tickets, hotel rooms, car rentals, rail tickets and travel insurance, on a stand-alone basis
or as part of a vacation package. ebookers also offers customers the ability to book a full range of travel products from their
mobile phones through the ebookers App for iPhone, Android and iPad and our mobile website (m.ebookers.com).
HotelClub
HotelClub is a global hotel booking website offering members a worldwide selection of hotel properties across more
than 140 countries. Through its unique loyalty program, HotelClub Rewards, members earn rewards of up to 7% of the value of
every booking made, which can then be redeemed on future hotel bookings. The company operates two websites,
HotelClub.com and RatesToGo.com, and offers services in 35 currencies and 17 languages, including Simplified Chinese,
Traditional Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
and Thai, among others. HotelClub also offers its customers the ability to book via mobile devices through an iPhone and iPad
App.
In addition to our customer-facing brands and services, we also generate revenue through other sources, including:
Orbitz Partner Network
We offer third parties, including many of the world’s largest airlines, travel agencies and financial institutions, and
thousands of partners globally, a full range of private label travel solutions, ranging from hosted HTML services that can be
launched in a matter of weeks to custom developed solutions that are fully tailored to meet the needs of more complex partners.
We license our technology and business services to these partners, who are then able to provide a wide range of travel products
on their websites under their own brands. We receive commissions based on the revenue generated by their websites. We
continue to pursue the expansion of our private label channel through the addition of new partners. For example, in the third
quarter of 2012, we launched a partnership with American Express to provide a variety of private label solutions for air, car,
hotel and vacation packages for the American Express Consumer Travel Network. In the fourth quarter of 2013, we began
powering the desktop and mobile sites for helloworld.com, the second largest travel agent network in Australia.