Online travel bookings offer Egyptian travellers greater savings and benefits when they use their Visa cards and book online
Cairo, Egypt - With the holiday season approaching, many people are planning to spend their vacations abroad. In order to bring greater offers and provide added value to Egyptian travellers, Visa has launched two new campaigns with HotelClub, a global online accommodation booking site.
The European Heritage Campaign is a three-month-long campaign valid from October 1st to December 31st, 2012, which allows Visa cardholders to enjoy the rich history and culture of Europe's heritage cities by offering them enticing packages at twelve select hotels in Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Venice, Rome and Paris. The Theme Park Campaign is offered from 1 Oct 2012 till 28 Feb 2013 and can be applied to renowned theme park hotels in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, Gold Coast Australia, Singapore, Seoul, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Orlando. The various hotels offer discounts from 15 percent to 30 percent as well as advance purchase rates on accommodation for bookings made with Visa Classic, Visa Gold, Visa Platinum, Visa Signature and Visa Infinite credit and debit cards.
"Visa is pleased to announce these new special offers with HotelClub, providing Visa cardholders exciting offers throughout the upcoming holiday seasons," said Tarek Elhousseiny, General Manager of Visa North and Francophone Africa. "Our partnership with HotelClub is a great platform to offer Egyptian cardholders the opportunity to take advantage of booking their accommodation online while gaining real benefits and rewards. Egyptians are increasingly using their payment cards to purchase services online and Visa realizes the importance of offering more options for them to do so. In addition to convenience, safety and global acceptance, travellers can enjoy a wide range of discounts in various countries."
It is worth noting that VisaNet, Visa's powerful, secure, interoperable network, connects billions of consumers, millions of merchants and thousands of financial institutions around the world.
Whether in their hometown or abroad Visa cardholders can enjoy numerous benefits in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.
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About Visa
Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories to fast, secure and reliable electronic payments. We operate one of the world's most advanced processing networks--VisaNet--that is capable of handling more than 24,000 transaction messages a second, with fraud protection for consumers and guaranteed payment for merchants. Visa is not a bank and does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa's innovations, however, enable its financial institution customers to offer consumers more choices: pay now with debit, ahead of time with prepaid or later with credit products. For more information, visit www.corporate.visa.com.
For more information:
TRACCS Egypt
Rowaidah Bibers
Tel: (+202) 33046860
Fax: (+202) 33031219
Email: rowaidah.bibers@traccs.net
© Press Release 2012
