HRS.com, The Hotel Portal, and KDS, Europe's leading provider of integrated travel and expense systems, today announces a brand new partnership. The link up will provide mutual customers with access to the full and varied content offered by HRS.com, including its huge hotel portfolio, cost savings and low corporate rates, transparent booking system and standardised service, via the KDS online corporate travel booking tool.

HRS is the leading hotel online reservation portal for private and business travel in Europe. With a market share of 53.9%, it is the unchallenged market leader in Germany (IHA - Hotelmarkt Deutschland 2007).

The Hotel Service Portal enables you to manage your rates, availabilities and information displayed about your hotel on HRS. Use the versatile functions to sell your hotel on www.hrs.de, www.hrs.com and on more than 6000 partner sites worldwide.

Corporate customers will benefit from HRS.com's low corporate rates with a discount of up to 30% available in more than 15,000 partner hotels worldwide. HRS.com, its hotel content and its booking process will be fully integrated into the KDS travel management solutions system allowing both future and existing customers to make hotel bookings within the KDS travel booking tool. All customers will have automatic access to HRS.com's vast database of more than 250,000 hotels - both chain and independent - in more than 180 countries making it the largest non-GDS source available anywhere.

"KDS has a lot of customers demanding better hotel content and access to special online pricing, especially in the current financial environment" says Dave Ashton V.P. Sales Development. "This partnership is one more step in KDS's ongoing commitment to providing customers with best in class content, pricing, and online access and we know HRS.com delivers on just that".

Comments Tobias Ragge, CEO of HRS.com, "The cooperation between HRS and KDS meets the current expectations of the market to exploit the extensive economisation in the travel management industry. Both large and medium-sized companies not only calculate with cheaper room rates, but also demand more transparency and standardisation in business travel booking and accounting. This is what we offer our shared customers".

HRS.com operates a worldwide electronic hotel reservation system for private and business travellers based on a database containing more than 250,000 hotels. The system enables direct bookings to be made free of charge with immediate confirmation at the cheapest daily best-buy prices available in the market. More than 20,000 companies regularly book their accommodation for business trips, conferences and group travel through HRS.com and appreciate the maximum transparency and savings it brings for business trips. Corporate customers benefit from the fact that large turnover volumes enable HRS.com to negotiate especially cheap rates. The companies that make their bookings using the HRS.com's best-buy function, and therefore make considerable savings, include global players like IKEA, Metro AG, EADS, West LB and Steria.

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