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Who
is Hawaii.com?
Hawaii.com
is owned by Gannett Co., publishers of USA Today and Stephen Media
Group and is a registered seller of travel in the State of Hawaii
(No. 5832) and is an accredited International Air Transport Association
accredited travel agency.
Gannett
Company - the USA's largest newspaper group in terms of circulation.
The company's 101 daily newspapers in the USA have a combined daily
paid circulation of 7.6 million. They include The Honolulu Advertisers,
Arizona Republic and USA TODAY, the nation's largest-selling daily
newspaper, with a circulation of approximately 2.3 million. USA
TODAY is available in 60 countries worldwide.
Gannett
also owns a variety of non-daily publications and USA WEEKEND, a
weekly newspaper magazine of 22.7 million circulation delivered
in more than 600 Gannett and non-Gannett newspapers.
Gannett
subsidiary Newsquest is the United Kingdom's second largest regional
newspaper company. Newsquest publishes more than 300 titles, including
17 daily newspapers, and a network of prize-winning Web sites.
Gannett also operates 22 television stations in the United States
which reach 17.8 percent of the USA and is an Internet leader with
more than 150 Web sites sponsored by its TV stations and newspapers
including USATODAY.com, one of the most popular news sites on the
Web. Gannett recorded $6.7 billion in operating revenue in 2003.
Stephens
Media Group - Owns 26 newspapers across the country including
West Hawaii Today, Hawaii Tribune Herald, and the Las Vegas Review
Journal and are also partners in LA.com and LasVegas.com travel
web sites.Company Commitment
Hawaii.com
is committed to being the Internet's all-inclusive web site for
travel to, from and around the islands of Hawaii by offering visitors
unmatched ease in booking the perfect dream vacation: from airline
tickets to lodging, car rentals to tee times, dining to snorkeling,
leis to aloha shirts, anything to everything.
If
it's in Hawaii, it's on Hawaii.com!
Company
History
Jan
'02 |
Hawaii.com
domain name purchased by Gannett Company, Inc. and Stephens
Media who join forces to expand the company creating an exotic,
destination-specific travel site with complete booking capabilities |
May
'02 |
Hawaii.com
launches with a campaign to penetrate the 12 markets delivering
85% of the 4.6 million mainland visitors to Hawaii annually
- Intensive
six month print campaign - leverages GCI assets - delivering
14 million households Sunday and 45 million weekdays
- $500,000
newspaper buy [LA Times; SF Chronicle; Seattle Post Intelligence;
San Diego Union Tribune; San Jose Mercury News; Portland
Oregonian etc
- Cable
Television Buy - Travel; Discovery; VH1; E! Entertainment;
Learning Channel; Country Music TV
- Banner
Campaigns - AOL.com Travel; Real Cities.com
Governor proclaims May 29 Hawaii.com Day. |
Mar
'03 |
Hawaii.com
wins Hawaii Visitor and Convention Bureau's Annual "Keep
It Hawaii" Kahili Award for best Internet Company. |
Jun
'03 |
Company
continues to grow and moves to new offices in Honolulu across
from Aloha Tower. |
Jun
'04 |
Launched
a new web site within Hawaii.com to promote the exotic destinations
in Micronesia at www.micronesia.hawaii.com |
Sept
'04 |
Hawaii.com
Travel Club membership exceeds 500,000 |
Jan
'05 |
Launched
a redesigned web site with IAB ads sizes and additional sections
including Relocating to Hawaii, Real Estate and a Kamaaina section
for local Hawaiians traveling to the mainland, inter-island
and money saving coupons. |
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