Jinjiang Hotels Broaden Global Sights With Expedia

A long overdue partnership between Jinjiang Inn Company, one of the leading Chinese economy hotel chains, and Expedia, the world's largest travel booking service, was recently created. Both companies expect to see substantial benefits from the partnership. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) June 18, 2010 - Shanghai, China - Jinjiang Inn and Expedia recently announced a major partnership, with the leading Chinese economy hotel brand set to list their 190+ hotels across the country on the internet's largest booking service.

The partnership creates a significant platform for Jinjiang Inn to market their Shanghai hotels to a global audience, and also marks a major inroad for Expedia into the large and lucrative Chinese market.

The cooperation with Expedia will further Jinjiang's already solid plans for growth into the future, which include:
• Building upon the Chinese hotel chain's solid environmental responsibility activities
• Maintaining a leading position in terms of consumer acceptance
• Continuing to offer excellent value for money
• Continuous innovation

Expedia has been a major name in online travel bookings since the company was started by Microsoft in the 1990s. The company also owns several other travel and Shanghai accommodation-related sites, including hotels.com and TripAdvisor.

"This collaboration is critical for Jinjiang, which helps us to achieve our growth targets, but also provides an important basis for our global expansion strategy" said president of Jinjiang Inn Co., Mr. Xu Zurong.

The partnership is a major one, representing an addition of 190 stores of information for different Shanghai hotels, Chengdu hotels, Qingdao hotels and Xi'an hotels to Expedia. Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi noted that Expedia are committed to absorbing more information for Chinese hotels into their global marketing platform.

About Jinjiang Inn:

The Jinjiang Inn chain was China's first economy hotel chain, comprised of 435 branches across 30 provinces and 116 cities. Professional and pragmatic spirit, sincere and continuously improving service, and the pursuit of simple and stylish have been the hallmarks of the brand.

For more information please contact:

Tracey Guo
JinJiang Inn.
Email: guoyating ( @ ) jj-inn dot com

Katie Deines, Expedia
1425679-7991
press ( @ ) expedia dot com

For more details, please visit http://www.jinjianginns.com .

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