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Opodo Goes From Strength To Strength

Germany and UK off to a record start

London, April 24, 2002. Opodo, the new Pan-European online travel portal continues to build on its success, as once again its' UK site has been ranked the third most trafficked travel site in the UK according to latest figures released by Nielsen NetRatings*

The March findings show that in the multi-travel category, Opodo.co.uk was ranked 3rd with 512,755 unique users - an increase of 99% from January.

Furthermore, independent ranking company, Jupiter MMXI**, confirm Opodo's strong performance, showing that the UK site received over 860,000 unique visitors in March 2002.

Jenny Taylor, UK Country Manager for Opodo commented, "We are delighted that our UK site is continuing to be so successful. To be systematically ranked in the top three by Nielsen NetRatings is an achievement of which we are immensely proud. We strongly believe that we offer our customers some great deals and these findings support that this is indeed the case."

Opodo launched its first site in Germany (opodo.de) in December last year. The UK site (opodo.co.uk) launched in January and the French site (opodo.fr) in April this year. Rollout of other European sites will occur during 2002 and beyond.



Media contact:

Gail Gillogaley / Ben Hall
Opodo Corporate Communications
Tel: 020 7664 7956
Email: gail.gillogaley@opodo.co.uk


Notes to editors


Research


*Nielsen NetRatings, March 2002
** Nielsen Netratings, January 2002

*** Forrester June 2001


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