About Us
Going Networks Travel Co., Ltd
Going Networks Travel (GN-Travel) is a new generation’s Tour Operator. GN-Travel offers classic offline and modern online Travel & Hotels reservation services for the worldwide travelers community. GN-Travel is specialized on Thailand and neighboouring countries; Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar.
The company also manages Thailand Traveler; an innovative Hotel booking system on the Internet which allows the user to create a personalized Hotel Plan for a Holiday in Thailand with multiple Hotels & Resorts choice at seasonal rates just with one enquiry. The user can select among hundreds of Discounted Hotel Rates and diversified Hotel Promotions the whole year around.
Thailand-Traveler 1st version (BETA), which was launched on 31st March 2005 has already welcomed 15,000 unique visitors with a total of over 90.000 pages loads and a distinctive high ratio of returning visitors; 1/3 of total. The Hotel Booking System, presently in English language only, is being redeveloped for his 2nd version. It will also be available in English, Italian and German language together with additional travel destinations.
Going Networks Travel Co., Ltd (Thailand) was incorporated on 17 December 2004 (reg. # 0108554715866). The new private company has taken over the management of Going Networks Co., Ltd (2002-2004), an alliance of small and medium sized enterprises organizing tours and travels in neighboring countries. Going Networks Travel holds a regular inbound and outbound Travel License #11/5318 and E-commerce License # 0108554715866. It’s also a legally authorized Merchant for online and offline credit card payment by Monex Financial Services Ltd (Thailand) & Bank of Asia PLC..
Monex Financial Services Ltd
Monex is an Irish company established in 1997. Monex is a World Leader in the provision of Multi Currency & Card based acquiring solutions. Monex has developed an innovative approach to multi-currency credit and charge card processing. The DCC (Dynamic Currency Conversion) Monex system provides an added value service to merchants and its customers. The DCC is a unique service, which allows card transactions to be processed in the cardholder's home currency. The cardholder is given the option to pay in the currency of their card or the currency of the Country they are purchasing in.
The Company has operations in London, Dublin, Killarney (Headquarters), New York, Bangkok, Singapore, Dubai, Bahrain, Cape Town and Sydney , each serving to support our operations in these regions.
Monex is a Certified Service Provider of the Visa Europe’s Account Information Security (AIS) Program. Monex is not only the first company in Ireland to achieve this stringent security standard, but is one of only seventeen companies in the whole of Visa Europe’s region to become a Certified Service Provider.
UOB (the former Bank of Asia)
UOB (as Bank of Asia) is a leading Thai bank founded in 1939. Listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand, it was a Registered Public Company Limited since 1992. UOB (as Bank of Asia) has developed a strong market position in consumer business. It has a comprehensive line of consumer banking products and a rapidly expanding customer base. The Bank’s Vision statement “To become the best Thai Financial Service Center with a record of innovation, a reputation for professionalism and a practice founded upon the philosophy of doing right for our customers”.
ABN AMRO, a Dutch financial services group, became the major shareholder of Bank of Asia in 1998 and helped develop world class risk management operations at Bank of Asia.
At the mid year of 2004, ABN AMRO sold its holding in BOA to The United Overseas Bank (UOB), the largest bank in Singapore. 2005 the name of the bank changed accordingly from "Bank of Asia" to "UOB".