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| Please find detailed below an overview of the company growth and key events and remarks that chronicle the history of DirectRooms
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| |  2007 | |
| | | January: | | Staff team grows to 85 full time staff, with 60 countries in service and over 9,000 hotels.
Website visitors exceed 820,000 a month.
| | | | | | | | July: | | Version 5 of the website goes live, with improved usability and additional sections.
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| | | 2006 | |
| | | 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.
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| | | 2005 | |
| | | 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.
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| | | 2004 | |
| | | 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.
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| | | 2003 | |
| | | 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.
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| | | 2002 | |
| | | 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.
| | | | | | | May: | | Vietnam hotels go live.
Move to larger offices.
| | | | | | | June: | | Establish an in house technical/software team (5 staff).
| | | | | | | September: | | Establish a dedicated content team (3 staff)
| | | | | | | December: | | Purchase local portal www.phuket.net.
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| | | 2001 | |
| | | 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.
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| | | 2000 | |
| | | 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.
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