ZUJI Online Travel Service

Planning and booking your next holiday just became easier with the arrival of ZUJI - Asia Pacific's most powerful and exciting online travel service. From today Australian travellers will be able to access a complete range of competitively priced travel products and services through ZUJI's online portal - www.zuji.com

ZUJI offers access to more than 700 airlines, 56,000 hotels, more than 50 car rental companies and soon Qantas' red e-deals, giving travellers the choice and control to go anywhere, anytime, at affordable prices.

ZUJI is powered by Travelocity.com - ZUJI's technology partner - the world's most popular online travel service. This sophisticated system allows for speed and ease of navigation.

ZUJI also offers Australians first-time access to innovative planning tools, including Flight Guru and Price Guru, that make planning easier while saving travellers time and money.

Flight Guru has the ability to prompt the traveller with stopover options available with selected airfares, while Price Guru tracks the lowest return airfares for up to five destinations, and sends an email alert to the traveller when an airfare reaches a specified price.

ZUJI Chairman, Tim Fitzsimmons said that with more Australians travelling again, they were looking for a cost effective way to simplify their travel plans.

"Australian travellers have been waiting for a premier online travel service to offer them a comprehensive range of products and competitive pricing to plan and book their travel itinerary online - ZUJI allows travellers to do exactly that," he said.

Customers have the flexibility of paying online, over the phone through the ZUJI Customer Service Centre (CSC) or in person at the ZUJI ticketing office located in the Sydney central business district. All online payments are secured and encrypted by eSign Australia. eSign provides payment and security solutions developed by VeriSign, the global leader in online security for e-commerce payments.

Staff at the ZUJI CSC have a strong travel industry background, are multi-lingual and trained to provide excellent customer support across multiple customer touch points (telephone, webchat, fax and email) to cater to the diverse needs of ZUJI customers across Asia Pacific.

ZUJI customers have the added convenience of having tickets delivered to them at no extra charge. There is also no service charge for credit card payments. They can pick up their tickets at the ZUJI ticketing office if they so wish.

ZUJI is backed by 16 leading international airlines, including Qantas Airways, and Travelocity.com. The airlines are All Nippon Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, China Airlines, EVA Airways, Garuda Indonesia, Hong Kong Dragon Airlines, Japan Air System, Japan Airlines, Malaysian Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Philippine Airlines, Qantas Airways, Royal Brunei Airlines, SilkAir, Singapore Airlines and United Airlines.

ZUJI is now also available to travellers in Singapore and will be launched in a number of other countries in Asia Pacific, including New Zealand, within the next six months.

Travellers can look forward to a series of monthly incentives for signing up as ZUJI members and for booking through ZUJI. They can also expect a continual program of product enhancements, including a travel packages offering, to be rolled out over the next 12 months.

Launch promotions for ZUJI include the chance to win a pair of return air tickets every day to a host of destinations around the world and two business class tickets to Hong Kong with five nights accommodation at the magnificent Hyatt Regency. For full details visit www.zuji.com