Leading online travel agent ebookers.com once again was the star performer of the Orbitz Worldwide portfolio, delivering a 58% year-on-year increase in hotel room nights in Q2 this year.

In the second quarter results released by Orbitz Worldwide on 5th August, ebookers’ stood out amongst a strong group performance, which saw solid improvement in gross bookings, transactions and hotel room nights. ebookers’ performance was particularly impressive bearing in mind the travel disruption experienced in the period of April to June, due to the Volcanic Ash Cloud crisis and airline strikes.

ebookers’ President Tamer Tamar said: ‘’I am delighted that ebookers has posted such an impressive performance in hotel room night growth in Q2. We faced an unprecedented situation with the volcano crisis and severe disruption to air services due to strikes and political unrest. However, our team rose to the challenges and turned these events into opportunities by demonstrating to our customers the quality of service and support we offer.

Initiatives such as removal of ebookers’ hotel cancellation fees, our ‘live chat’ feature and ‘100% Package Protection’ - for customers who had booked an Ash Cloud-affected package - contributed to our good performance and more importantly helps our customers to book easier and travel happier.”