Agoda.com

Agoda Company Pte., Ltd.. is an online hotel booking platform based in Singapore and is part of the U.S. travel group Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN ) ​​. Agoda has operations in Singapore, Bangkok, Sydney, Budapest, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and the Philippines, additional representative offices in major cities of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.

History

The company was founded in the late 1990s by Michael Kenny under the name PlanetHoliday.com. The original concept was to use the emerging power of search engines to fill a perceived vacuum of information on hotel and travel information.

Kenny, originally from Long Iceland, New York, emigrated in the late 1990s from Thailand and taught the website together with a small business operation on the island of Phuket. In 2002 the company moved to Phuket from Bangkok and added 2003 PrecisionReservations.com added as a partner website that was designed to reservations about affiliate websites for sale. Later in 2005 PlanetHoliday.com and PrecisionReservations.com were united under the name Agoda, and then taken over by the Priceline Group, the world's largest online provider of hotel rooms in 2007. The Priceline Group is listed on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: PCLN ) ​​stock exchanges and is included in the S & P 500 stock market index.

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