WD Travel is a wholesale and retail provider for FIT hotel bookings with a focus on Asia. The company is privately owned, under European management and has it's state of the art offices in Bangkok, Thailand. With currently 60 employees, a large in-house IT/design team, multi lingual content generation, 24 hours reservation services (retail/wholesale) and a 300 sqm office in the heart of Bangkok's business district, we are perfectly positioned to meet customer demands for fast, secure online hotel room reservations.

The WD Travel Preferred Hotel Partner Program has been hugely successful. Currently WD Travel maintains over 1,200 direct hotel contracts across Asia with 1,000 Thailand direct hotels contracts alone. Prerequisite to participate under the Preferred Hotel Partner Program is the hotels firm commitment to allocations combined with realistic cut of dates. We are committed to contracting Asia wide and to exceed 2,000 hotel contracts by years end.

Room night production for Thailand alone:

40,000 room nights in 2006
96,000 room nights in 2007
144,000 room nights in 2008 (Projected)

The success of WD Travel has been made possible by converging a thorough understanding of IT, e-commerce and travel industry expertise. WD Travel focuses on making use of latest information technologies available, to satisfy customers demand for fast, efficient and secure online transactions. At WD Travel we believe that IT development is the key to excel in today's highly dynamic and fast paced travel industry. All applications used, web based or in-house (online booking engines, in-house reservation, inventory and yield management systems) are built and constantly developed by our programming teams. WD Travel is also committed to active Research & Development, as well as ongoing feasibility studies solely dedicated to emerging technologies. The company launched its latest third-generation web based booking engine TravelWorks in 2007. For more information, please view WD Travel Technology.

The founders of WD Travel are true pioneers in the Thailand Internet industry. Involved in all aspects of e-commerce since 1996, the founders are firmly committed to online travel since 2000. Through close relationships with thousands of hotels across Asia, as well as with leading traditional inbound tour operators, the founders have acquired a deep understanding of the Asian on & offline travel space.

"WD Travel's decision to switch its positioning from a B2C retail accommodation website to a B2B accommodation consolidator has paid off. The online wholesaler is sharpening its specialization further to attract more global travel intermediaries. Sirima Eamtako checks what WD Travel offers agents that other consolidators cannot."

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