Ebookers

ebookers is an online travel company based out of the UK and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cendant Corporation and part of Cendant Travel Distribution Services Division. ebookers.com is a pan-European travel website specialising in the mid and long-haul travel arena, offering a wide and varying range of travel products including hotel reservations, flights, car hire and sports packages.

ebookers was formed in 1999, by Dinesh Dhamija, but its origins go back almost 20 years. In 1983 Flightbookers Ltd was founded , a London-based travel agency. Flightbookers grew into one of the UK s biggest travel agencies and in 1996 established a website, the first interactive travel website in the UK. This was so successful that in 1999 the internet arm was separated to form ebookers and the new company taken public with a flotation on Nasdaq in New York and Germany s Neuer Markt. The $61m raised at flotation was used to roll-out ebookers across Europe. In November 2000 ebookers bought Flightbookers for $15m reuniting the two companies.

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*[http://www.ebookers.com/ Ebookers] *[http://www.cendant.com/ Cendant] *[http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1365252,00.html Ebookers chief gets £92m from sale to Cendant - Guardian Unlimited, December 2004] *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2680851.stm Ebookers snaps up Travelbag - BBC News, January 2001]