Cultuzz appoints Global Director of Sales & Marketing

Berlin 18th of April 2006 – Cultuzz announced this week the appointment of a Global Director of Sales and Marketing, Michael Hughes formerly of Consultants Collective, Germany.

Michael’s appointment, a business management consultant with 16 years experience in the travel industry having consulted for McArthurGlen Ltd, Cendant Corporation, HotelClub and having worked for a variety of travel companies including Viator Inc, Jetset Travel Australia and Qantas Airways… underlines the International expansion plans of Cultuzz the leading provider of auctionable travel content to eBay globally.

“Cultuzz has rapidly expanded in line with the globalization of eBay in the past 2 years” said Dr Reinhard Vogel Managing Director of Cultuzz.

“We are committed to provide solutions and 1st class support, not only to the thousands of hotel partners we have but also to the broader travel industry segments of flights, car hire and other services and we see the need to have as part of our team industry experts such as Michael Hughes to assist us to maintain and improve our relationship with the travel industry as well as providing us with reputable knowledge and know-how”, said Vogel.

Hughes spent the last 9 months consulting Cultuzz as Sales Manager for the UK and leveraging international hotel chain contacts to widen their market position to include Australia and the USA before this permanent appointment.

“I am delighted to join the dynamic, young, enthusiastic team at Cultuzz and to work closely with our major distribution partner eBay” said Michael Hughes

“eBay provides not only hoteliers but all segments of the travel industry a viable and unique option for shifting excess capacity as well as in the long term having the chance at becoming a dominate player in the online travel domain by capitalizing on the massive consumer pool of 160m eBay members globally” said Hughes

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About Cultuzz

Cultuzz Digital Media GmbH was founded in Berlin in the year 2000. Cultuzz provides a suite of integrated software solutions to the tourism and hospitality industry designed to make the processing, managing and transacting of E-Commerce more efficient using state of the art solutions. The Cultuzz product suite is OTA compliant (Open Travel Alliance) ensuring that system to system interfaces are achieved with minimal additional resource requirements.

Cultuzz has more than 2500 hotel partners in Europe, Asia and Australia making them the largest deliverer of auction hotel content to eBay globally.

About Michael Hughes

Michael Hughes Australian born lives in Europe for the past 6 years having made the move to London to take up the role of expanding Viator Inc (www.viator.com) to Europe in 1999. Michael holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Diploma in Tourism management.

Michael opened his own Business Management & Marketing consultancy company in Germany in 2001, Consultants Collective (www.consultantscollective.com) . This company successfully worked on projects from tourism, Architecture & Interior Design, home accessories and the retail segment most recently being engaged to establish a tourism strategy for McArthurGlen Ltd (Europe’s leading designer outlet centre owner and developer in Europe).

This diverse background compliments Michael’s 16 years in tourism, especially with specialization in e-Commerce distribution, marketing and a personal favorite of Michael’s intercultural communications or internationalization of business strategies.

Michael will now be based in Berlin fulltime

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