LONDON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ --     Venere.com, the European leading accommodation site, announce
a new agreement with Derbysoft that allows the leading Asian Channel
Manager's travel agencies portfolio to resell Venere's hotels to their
customers.

By the end of May, Derbysoft's TAs will have access to
Venere.com portfolio via dedicated interface, making available to Chinese
travellers more than 26.000 properties, mainly in Europe and US.

"Currently we have 885 travel agencies using our system,
including Lion Travel (the biggest agency in Taiwan), CITS (one of the
largest agencies in China) and China Business International Travel Service
(specialized in Corporate Travel). The integration with Venere.com will make
more and more simple to our partners the process of booking hotels overseas",
explains Stephen Liu, Vice President at Derbysoft.

"One of our main objective for 2008 is to develop our TA
interface and the number of affiliated travel agents, driven by our large and
distinctive hotel offer, attractive commissions, a new pre-paid model and
many other dedicated initiatives. In this sense, the agreement with Derbysoft
represents the first step of an ambitious business development strategy",
reveals Marco Ficarra, CEO of Venere.com.

This new alliance consolidates the relationship between the
two companies, following the recent agreement that led Venere.com to a step
increase in inventory in China via DerbySoft's "DSwitch".

About Venere.com

Founded in 1995, Venere.com is the largest independent lodging
site in Europe.

Private equity fund Advent International obtained a majority stake in
Venere Net S.p.A by acquiring 60% of the company shares in late 2006.

With more than 26.000 properties and 450.000 hotels reviews
online, Venere.com has been experiencing spectacular growth that have taken
it to the leading position of the industry.

About DerbySoft

Founded in Shanghai in 2002, DerbySoft is a leading technology
company serving the hospitality and travel industries in China. It has a
growing team of 180 members in offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou,
Chengdu and the U.S.

DerbySoft has developed and now operates the largest hotel
switch in China serving thousands of large international and domestic chain
hotels including Hilton, IHG, BTG-Nikko Hotels, Jinling Hotel Group, CTS
Hotels and others as well as more than 1000 independent Chinese hotels.

On the buyer side, hundreds of Chinese travel agencies, corporate travel
offices, OTA and other online distribution channels are connected to the
switch.

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