Webjet hopes Zuji speeds overseas growth THE successful takeover of Asia-focused travel website Zuji should give Webjet the confidence to hasten its overseas expansion, managing director John Guscic says. Webjet paid $25 million in December to bulk up its presence in Asia through the purchase of the Zuji website in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. The transaction, which was funded through a capital raising, was expected to be completed shortly. Mr Guscic told a business lunch in Sydney today the focus for the company was integrating Zuji - which would continue to operate as a separate brand - into the broader Webjet company. "If we are successful with that, and we can establish ourselves as a player beyond the shores of Australia and New Zealand, it will give us confidence to continue to grow our geographic expansion," he said. Mr Guscic said Webjet, which listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 2000, chose to go down the acquisition path in mid-2012 after discovering its existing joint ventures in Asia were "going slowly." "We would like to grow more aggressively, geographically - in other words outside Australia - than we would achieve through our organic start-up phase," he said.