Pegasus Eyes Asia, Opens Office in Beijing

Expanding its operations in the Asia Pacific region, Pegasus Solutions, Inc has appointed Olivier Dombey as its vice president of sales and account management for the Asia-Pacific region and also opened an office in Beijing, China.

Pegasus´ chief operating officer Bob Boles says one of company´s primary growth initiatives for 2005 is expansion in the Asia-Pacific region and he termed the signing of its electronic distribution agreement with consolidator of hotel and flight accommodations in China, Ctrip.com, in December last year as an important step towards the same.

The company has also got offices in Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. Dombey is supported by nine Pegasus employees who are also solely focused on the Asia-Pacific region.

Pegasus provides Ctrip direct access to inventory at nearly 60,000 hotels worldwide and Ctrip also uses Pegasus´ PegsTour service, which automates wholesale and tour operator bookings from hotel chains.

Other than this, Pegasus has also signed an agreement with Hospitality Host, a Taiwan-based marketing and technology firm. The company´s Unirez by Pegasus service enables Hospitality Host´s 174 hotel members to receive bookings from international guests by connecting them to the global distribution systems and international travel portals, according to Pegasus.

According to information provided by Pegasus last month, 8,000 travel agencies in the Asia-Pacific region are members of Pegasus Commission Processing, including more than 480 in Pakistan. Asia-Pacific chains, including Mandarin Oriental, Marco Polo, Nikko Hotels, Oberoi Hotels, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts and Taj Hotels, participate in Pegasus Commission Processing.