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LondonNet Info
Our History
21/12/00
LondonNet 2000
- Sailing
through the storm
IT HAS been
a big year here at the good ship LondonNet.
We remain independently
funded, with our growth powered by our increasing turnover. While
this may be a rarity in this strange dot com world, we believe
it has given us the chance to grow at a reasonable (not breakneck)
speed, thus providing security to our customers, employees and
suppliers. As a result of this policy and the hard work and dedication
of our staff we have sailed through the dot com mania and dot
com crash and leave the year with a hugely boosted readership
and range of services.
We also successfully
launched our second site, Hotelgenie.com which now has over
300 hotels in 100 European cities, many with exclusive offers
and discounts.
2001 is LondonNet's
fifth year online and our team of writers look forward to giving
you even more to read about London. Alongside their tips you
will be able to book an expanding range of hotels, shows and
events with the help of our experienced travel advisors.
(Peter
D. Clee,
Publisher)
December
2000:
AHOY!'s circulation tops
12,000 readers.
November 2000: Hotelgenie.com now features 300 hotels.
October 2000: AHOY!'s circulation tops 10,000 subscribers.
September 2000: Hotelgenie.com now features 250 hotels.
August 2000: LondonNet celebrates it's fourth birthday.
June 2000: LondonNet launches an online Music
Ticket Shop
May 2000: Over a hundred European
hotels are now listed on the Hotelgenie.com site, with many more
in the pipeline.
April 2000: The fiftieth issue of AHOY! is published.
March 2000: LondonNet commences a London and international
advertising campaign created, planned and bought by Soho agency
Evans Hunt Scott.
February 2000: LondonNet launches an online Theatre
Ticket Shop.
January 2000: The first Hotelgenie.com hotel pages appear.
By May over a hundred European hotels are listed on the site.
November
1999:
LondonNet reveals plans for a new European hotel guide; Hotelgenie.com.
August 1999: LondonNet marks its third birthday with a
move to new offices in Wimbledon.
Spring 1999: LondonNet continues its fiercely independent
editorial stance with a firm anti-war stance in the Kosovo crisis.
November
1998:
The online Hotel
Shop
begins an expansion that will result in more than a dozen of
the capital's choice hotels listed - many exclusively to LondonNet.
October 1998: The arrest in London of former Chilean leader
Augusto Pinochet provokes a vigorous debate on LondonNet. The
deluge of messages on the Talkback forums causes the software
to crash!
Autumn 1998: The second major redesign is rolled out across
the site. Again pagination is increased and the audience grows
accordingly.
March 1998: LondonNet appoints TSMSi (a subsidiary of United
News and Media) as its exclusive advertising sales house.
October-November
1997:
Our coverage of the Louise Woodward trial sees a surge of 12,000
visitors in the hour her appeal result is revealed on LondonNet
ahead of established UK news organisations such as the BBC, ITN
and Sky News.
August 1997: Princess Diana's death creates a surge in
audience as many readers use LondonNet to post messages of condolence
while others post kooky conspiracy theories.
Summer 1997: LondonNet introduces secure online hotel
booking.
Spring 1997: LondonNet has first major site redesign with
pagination expanded threefold. The new look is greeted with a
string of awards from web-professionals.
Spring 1997: LondonNet launches its newsletter AHOY!
August 1996: LondonNet goes live.
Spring 1996: Work begins on the first web based magazine
for London, to be called LondonNet the publication will serve
Londoners and visitors to the capital.
About
Us
• The LondonNet
Story
• Meet the LondonNet Team
• What they're saying about us on the WWW
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has a collection of fine European hotels.
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big discounts at selected city hotels
- City Guides:
on featured cities including Rome, Paris and Brussels
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hotels
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