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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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