CTRIP and Booking.com Forge Global Travel Partnership

CTRIP.com International, Ltd.

, a leading travel service provider of hotel accommodations, airline tickets, packaged tours and corporate travel management in China, and Booking.com, the world's leading online hotel reservation service and part of the Priceline Group

, today announced an agreement under which Ctrip can reach Booking.com's global portfolio of over 235,000 participating hotels through Ctrip's hotel reservation services. Ctrip now offers over 50,000 hotels worldwide. Booking.com's hotel inventories will be offered in addition to the participating hotels already in Ctrip's hotel reservation service. The relationship significantly increases Ctrip's total number of available hotels and its global coverage, which will now include the more than 170 countries covered by Booking.com.