@Leisure BR BV first member from the Netherlands to join VIR as sustaining member

With 15,000 residences in 17 European countries, @Leisure is one of the leading suppliers of holiday homes and apartments in its business segment. As sustaining member of “Verband Internet Reisevertrieb” (Internet Travel Marketing Association), the Eindhoven-based company hopes to benefit from the intensive exchange of experiences and more thorough integration in the on-line travel industry, as well as from the valuable findings of VIR’s market research, which is accessible to members, exclusively. In Germany, @Leisure is best known for its website www.belvilla.de. VIR is glad to welcome the company in the name of all its members.

VIR – Internet Travel Marketing Association:
Organ of the tourism-related Internet economy
VIR pursues the core issues of Internet security, trust, transparency and quality standards. The association acts as the organ of the tourism-related Internet economy and as contact partner for consumers, the media and the industry itself. Among its members are seven of Germany’s leading on-line travel portals (ebookers.de, expedia.de, holidaycheck.de, gratistours.com, lastminute.de, opodo.de and travel24.com), which generate turnovers of close to one billion euros and together employ more than 500 people. In the second half of 2008, these travel portals were visited by an average of 3 million people each month.