January
Staff level at 66 full time staff, with 100 countries and with over 37,000 hotels live.
New countries Grenada, Guadeloupe, Montenegro, Palau, Samoa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Ukraine, Zambia go live.
February New countries Antigua, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Guam, Jamaica, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Martinique, Monaco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Island, Reunion Island, Romania, Saint Martin, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turks and Caicos Island go live.
March New countries Bahamas, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Mauritius, Saint Lucia, Senegal, Trinidad and Tobago, US-Alaska go live.
January Staff level at 74 full time staff, with 66 countries and with over 18,000 hotels live.
September New countries Brunei Darussalam, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Belize, Uruguay, Venezuela and Ecuador go live.
October New countries Costa Rica, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru go live.
November
Version 8 of website launched (Project Turbo) to improve speed with comprehensive supplier search and compare facilities.
New country Canada goes live.
December New countries Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Serbia and Uzbekistan go live.
January Staff level at 80 full time staff, with 60 countries and with over 13,000 hotels live.
March Iran, Kuwait and Qatar hotels go live.
May Version 6 of website goes live, with improved design and functions.
July Qatar, Syria and Yemen hotels go live.
October Add "Live Chat" facilities.
November Reduce overheads and spending by 25% to prepare us for recession. No staff redundancies.
January Staff team grows to 85 full time staff, with 60 countries in service and over 9,000 hotels.
July Version 5 of the website goes live, with improved usability and additional sections.
November New travel guide section added for 60 countries and over 2.400 pages of content.
January
Staff team grows to 79 full time staff, with 29 countries in service and 5,500 hotels.
Website visitors exceed 730,000 a month.
Japan hotels go live.
February Portugal and Taiwan hotels go live.
March Luxembourg, Finland, Denmark, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Israel and Jordan hotels go live
April Morocco and South Korea hotels go live.
May Turkey, Belgium, Cyprus, Hungary and Russia hotels go live.
June Greece, Malta and Iceland hotels go live.
July Norway, Tunisia, Egypt and Poland hotels go live.
August
Move to new larger offices.
South Africa, Seychelles, Vanuatu, New Zealand, Fiji and Australia hotels go live.
October Purchase adjacent property to the new office for future expansion.
January Staff team grows to 58 full time staff, with 21 countries in service and 4,500 hotels. Website visitors exceed 490,000 a month.
February Austria hotels go live.
April Netherlands hotels go live.
June Switzerland and Sweden hotels go live.
August Italy hotels go live.
September Germany hotels go live.
October France hotels go live.
December Spain hotels go live.
January Staff team grows to 41 full time staff, with 17 countries in service and 3,800 hotels. Website visitors exceed 330,000 a month.
March England hotels go live.
May Czech Republic hotels go live.
July Ireland hotels go live.
October France hotels go live.
November India hotels go live.
December Spain hotels go live.
January Staff team grows to 36 full time staff, with 8 countries in service and 2,300 hotels. Website visitors exceed 170,000 a month. UAE hotels go live.
February Philippines and Laos hotels go live.
March Myanmar (Burma) hotels go live.
May Sri Lanka hotels go live.
July Nepal hotels go live.
September Northern Ireland hotels go live.
November Wales and Scotland hotels go live.
January Staff team grows to 24 staff, with 6 countries in service and 1,800 hotels. Website visitors exceed 110,000 a month.
March Cambodia hotels go live.
June stablish an in house technical/software team (5 staff).
September Establish a dedicated content team (3 staff)
December Purchase local portal www.phuket.net.
January Team grows to 8 full time staff, with 4 countries in service and 900 hotels. Website visitors exceed 30,000 a month.
February China hotels go live (Hong Kong incorporated into China).
June Maldives hotels go live.
August Indonesia hotels go live. Start a 24 hour/7 day staffing of the reservations department.
January Incorporated the company and commence business with a team of 5 staff.
May Thailand hotels go live.
June Malaysia hotels go live.
October Singapore hotels go live.
December Hong Kong hotels go live.