hotelbook(R) Rides High With Qunar

Innovative Marketing & Distribution Agreement a Benefit to Chinese Consumers

BEIJING, May 10 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Qunar.com, China's largest travel search engine, today announced Chinese consumers will be able to access Pegasus Solutions' independent travel Web site, http://www.hotelbook.com , inventory of hotel properties in an easy-to-use, Chinese-language format booking engine for the first time.

"We believe that Qunar will provide our member hotels with an outstanding opportunity to market directly to China's emerging consuming class, many of whom are willing and ready to travel worldwide," noted Mr Olivier Dombey, Regional Vice President Asia Pacific of Pegasus Solutions. He went on to say, "We feel that travel search engines such as Qunar provide highly-qualified consumers at high conversion rates."

Qunar's VP of Product, Ms Denise Peng added, "Hotelbook's huge base of hotel properties will prove to be very valuable to Qunar's customers. Our customers, who are very keen to travel the world, will be able to conveniently book rooms through Pegasus' Chinese-language booking engine."

With a database of nearly 5,000 independent hotels, hotelbook.com features properties in 144 different countries and 1,564 cities, with 1,600 hotels in the Americas, 2,500 in Europe and more than 500 in the Asia-Pacific region. The site is promoted as The Official Site of Independent Hotels(TM), asking travelers to "Stay Independent."

Qunar is China's first and largest travel search engine with over 5 million monthly unique visitors, searching hundreds of travel web sites.

About Pegasus

Dallas-based Pegasus Solutions, Inc. is a global leader in providing technology and services to hotels and travel distributors. Founded in 1989, Pegasus' customers include a majority of the world's travel agencies and more than 78,000 hotel properties around the globe. Pegasus' services include central reservation systems, electronic distribution services, commission processing and payment services, and marketing representation services, including the consumer Web site, http://www.hotelbook.com . The Company's representation services, including Utell(R) Hotels & Resorts and Unirez by Pegasus(TM), are used by more than 9,300 member hotels in more than 130 countries, making Pegasus the hotel industry's largest third-party marketing and reservations provider. Pegasus has 16 offices in 11 countries, including regional hubs in London, Singapore and Scottsdale, Arizona. For more information, please visit http://www.pegs.com .

About Qunar.com

Based in Beijing, Qunar.com is a vertical search engine that focuses on providing the most comprehensive and accurate pricing information for travel services. Qunar's users are able to search and compare prices for flights and accommodation -- all the information that travelers need before making a purchase decision.

Launched in May 2005, the web site has quickly become one of the top travel media in China and is recognized as the "new star" in the Chinese online travel space. Qunar offers an audience that represents China's upwardly mobile new generation of consumers who are frequent travelers, comfortable with online transactions and willing to spend a significant amount of their disposable income on traveling to new and exciting places.

Qunar means "where are you going?" in Mandarin Chinese.