The Online Holiday Home Marketplace from Hotelplan and Migros has concluded a cooperation agreement with the Dutch operator NextPax.com. Thanks to this cooperation, VACANDO will be able to increase its offering to more than 100,000 holiday homes around the world. The available range is being greatly expanded in popular destinations such as Scandinavia and Croatia.

(TRAVPR.COM) HOLLAND – 18th March 2010 - Holiday Home Marketplace VACANDO’s range increases to 100,000 holiday accommodation units. VACANDO offers all kinds of holiday accommodation (other than hotels) on its 13 websites in 9 languages. All the accommodation shares a common feature, in that guests cook for themselves and spend their holidays entirely freely and independently – in accordance with the VACANDO motto “Individual instead of hotel”. VACANDO is moreover the only holiday accommodation portal which runs a 24/7 Service Hotline and offers its customers popular CUMULUS points from Migros.

VACANDO is in the first place directed at private owners who wish to market their holiday accommodation independently and internationally online. In order to fulfil its role as an online holiday accommodation marketplace with the most diverse possible range of accommodation, VACANDO also offers customers holiday accommodation from established agencies like Inter Chalet, Interhome and Sol og Strand. Well-known operators like Dancenter, TUI Ferienhaus and Villa Vacant will now be added to this listed, thanks to the collaboration with NextPax.com, thus increasing the number of holiday homes on offer to more than 100,000. Most striking is the growth in Scandinavia as well as in popular beach destinations in Greece, Croatia and Hungary.

Bundled offering from NextPax.com
The Dutch operator NextPax.com is bundling the product data from leading European holiday home operators and will update and provide these every day to business partners. At the present time NextPax.com has integrated the offerings from Bungalow.net, Dancenter, Interhome, Topic Travel, TUI Ferienhaus, VipHolidays, Villa Vacant and others into its system. The intention is to integrate more operators, such as Inter Chalet or Muchosol. “By working together with NextPax.com we can save ourselves the trouble of making direct connections with each of the individual operators and so we can offer our customers an even more comprehensive range at minimal expense,” explains Kilian Eyholzer, CEO of VACANDO AG. The holiday homes of the new partners can be booked online via VACANDO from now on.

About VACANDO
VACANDO AG, with its registered office in Glattbrugg near Zürich, views itself as a neutral, user-friendly holiday accommodation marketplace for individual holiday experiences. Vacando seeks to inspire travellers with holiday accommodation, before, during and also after their holidays. Holiday enthusiasts will find over 100,000 individual holiday homes on www.vacando.ch, including holiday houses, villas, fincas and chalets, in virtually all European countries, as well as in the USA and South America. Vacando is a subsidiary of Interhome and forms part of the Hotelplan Gruppe, the travel subsidiary of the largest Swiss retail company, Migros. Owners can market their holiday homes independently all over the world using VACANDO.

About NextPax.com
NextPax.com B.V., with its registered office in Almere near Amsterdam, has developed PaxGenerator - the leading online platform for holiday homes. By using PaxGenerator, online travel operators can incorporate the entire holiday home ranges of the leading operators in the industry using a Super-XML data format or an HTML module. PaxGenerator provides descriptions, images, availability and prices from one source and also makes it possible to book all linked objects directly online. NextPax.com’s offering is already used by numerous operators such as www.zoekvakantiehuis.nl, www.vakantie.be, www.rookvrijevakantiehuizen.nl (non-smoking holiday homes).

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