Vipservice Partners with Booking.com to Provide Enhanced Options for Business Travelers in Russia

Moscow, Russia, 17 October 2016. Today Vipservice (www.vipservice.ru), the leading Russian travel company, announced that it has partnered with Booking.com, the global leader in connecting travelers with the widest choice of incredible places to stay, to provide enhanced business travel options for Russian customers. Booking.com's 1,000,000+ accommodation options worldwide will become available for all Vipservice clients in early 2017, enabling them to access the world's widest selection of accommodation - from traditional hotels to more unique apartments, homes and B&B's - all at great prices. Today the first important step towards realising the partnership was undertaken by Corporate Business, by means of the B2B Portbilet Platform, making Booking.com content available for its corporate clients.

«Our partnership with Booking.com increases the value of our services to corporate customers in particular and broadens our service portfolio, — said Anna Kuznetsova, Managing Partner of Vipservice` corporate business. — We are focused on providing a universal platform to Portbilet users, helping them optimize and speed up the booking process. The fully integrated Booking.com content provides access to the best accommodation rates across Russia and worldwide. In the next six months our corporate customers will benefit and appreciate the new partnership».

«One in five of the bookings made on our site and mobile apps globally are now made for business and we continue to see Russian business travelers using Booking.com, — said Ripsy Bandourian, Director of Product Development for Booking.com for Business. — Partnerships like this one with Vipservice in Russia enables us to bring our signature seamless booking experience to even more business customers worldwide, helping them get the most from their corporate travel budgets, while saving their travel managers and employers both time and money».

About Vipservice

Vipservice, the largest consolidator of air and rail ticket and other travel services in Russia, was founded in 1993. Since then Vipservice has been regularly nominated #1 agent of Aeroflot, leading agent of Lufthansa Group, AirFrance/KLM, Russian Railways and many other international and Russian airlines. Vipservice`s network includes over 10,000 sub-agents across Russia. The sales record of 2015 was more than 13,000,000 air and rail tickets.

Vipservice successfully operates in four of the most important travel areas like TMC, Consolidator, OTA and Travel Agency. Thanks to the integrated Portbilet solution Vipservice is now also recognized as the leading travel technology provider in Russia.

For more information about Portbilet visit www.vipservice.ru.