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London, United Kingdom, March 21, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Easyvoyage.co.uk, the UK sibling of one of Europe’s leading travel websites is on schedule to reach its ambitious growth targets by the end of 2009.

Just three months after launch, the site now boasts 800,000 subscribers to its twice-weekly newsletter and 300,000 unique users per month.

According to Editor in Chief Laurent Serfaty: “The secret of its success is the site’s unique combination of unbiased editorial content and search engine capability across holiday packages, hotels, flights and car rentals. Easyvoyage.co.uk offers impartial information, hotel and destination endorsements, price comparisons and the best weekly online deals.”

CEO Jean-Pierre Nadir is confident that Easyvoyage.co.uk will be among the top five travel sites in the UK by the end of 2009, with a target 1 million unique users, 2 million subscribers to the newsletter and 400,000 qualified leads to business partners per month. “I predict we will have more than 350,000 unique users by the end of March.”

Founded in 2000 in France, Easyvoyage has rapidly established itself as the leading provider of high quality travel content to travellers and qualified leads to merchants. Today Easyvoyage enjoys clear market leadership in France as well as increasingly strong positions in Spain and Italy, with a group turnover of €16 million in 2008 and profits of €5.6 million. The combined sites also generated €500 million sales for partners in 2008.

The company employs a team of 20 journalists who visit over 1500 hotels a year in 50 countries and an advertising sales division of 10.

Easyvoyage currently attracts 5.7 million unique monthly visitors to its websites in France, Spain and Italy, distributes newsletters to over 7 million registered active members and generates over 2.6 million qualified leads monthly to merchants.

It is the third most popular travel website in France with 3.2 million monthly visitors.

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Note to Editors

Easyvoyage :Leader in Southern Europe

www.easyvoyage.com
Top ‘infomediation’ site in France, and ranked third most popular across all categories.

It currently has more than 3 million unique visitors and 12 million subscribers to the newsletter.

www.easyviajar.com
The second most popular ‘infomediation’ site in Spain with 800 000 unique visitors (Source Médiamétrie) and 1.6 million newsletter subscribers.

www.easyviaggio.com
Currently among the top 5 ‘infomediation’ sites in Italy with 300,000 unique visitors (Source Xiti) and 600,000 subscribers to the newsletter.

www.easyvoyage.co.uk
Launched last December and on target to be among the top five UK travel sites by the end of 2009.

A German language version is scheduled to be launched in September 2009.

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