Since the establishment of Destinations of the World in 1993, the company has consistently practiced trade neutrality and continues successfully to this day as a dedicated B2B travel industry wholesaler. Our core practices are focused on successfully connecting travel professionals around the globe, loyalty to our business customers, fair trading and being easy to do business with. These core practices are fully supported and disciplined by our pioneering technology and our dedicated team of professionals.Nineteen years after we started in one country with a team of five, we now have offices in strategic locations around the world with over 300 multilingual professional staff. We have achieved this by continuous investment in people and technology. We have over 100,000 ground services in over 7,500 cities worldwide, which are accessed by over 450,000 travel agents, tour operators, OTA's, airlines, wholesalers, customers of Travel Technology companies and GDS's which include Amadeus, Travel port and Sabre. We currently process more than 3,000 bookings globally every day, generating over 2.3 million bed nights per annum.Key business growth plans during 2013 include increasing our customer distribution in existing markets and to connect new XML customers from new markets across the world. Improve our products by contracting more hotels and inventory to meet the needs of new markets and by adding more hotel chains on direct dynamic connectivity to increase the existing number of properties from 80,000 to at least 100,000 over the next 12 months.
