Westlake Village, CA - (December 20, 2005) —  Pleasant Holidays has teamed with Passport Online to introduce a new, turn-key online booking solution for travel agency Web sites. Agencies using VacationPORT, Passport Online's sophisticated electronic marketing platform endorsed by the major retail consortia and used by thousands of travel agencies, can now offer clients easy online booking with Pleasant Holidays.

As part of an enhanced relationship with Pleasant Holidays, Passport Online can dynamically add "Check Availability/Book" links to the hundreds of Pleasant Holidays featured offers in the VacationPORT system. Consumers can shop within the VacationPORT shopping environment, and when they find an offer that is of interest, they can click the "Check Availability/Book" link.

When clients click to book the Pleasant Holidays individual offers in VacationPORT, the client is seamlessly moved into the booking environment, which recognizes the agency and the product. The client simply chooses his or her departure city, travel dates and the number of passengers traveling before retrieving vacation availability and pricing.

According to Todd Castor, Pleasant Holidays staff vice president of e-commerce, the collaboration with Passport Online should mutually benefit both companies, as well as their agency partners. "Just as Passport Online is continually seeking new agency subscribers, Pleasant Holidays continues to develop and promote our Online Partner Link Program for agents," explained Castor. "And, ultimately, the agencies taking advantage of this connectivity are the primary beneficiaries, with increased efficiencies and higher sales," he added.

Passport Online provides two options for agents to use its tools: VacationPORT can be deployed on any site, or NexCite provides a complete website solution including the VacationPORT content and e-marketing tools. Using the powerful VacationPORT tools, agents can easily create promotional e-mails and website displays to feature specific products, such as Pleasant Holidays offers. Consumers visiting an agency's site utilizing VacationPORT can then browse the offers in a comparison-shopping environment and click to check availability and pricing on that product

The Pleasant Holidays Partner Link booking engine provides agencies with dynamic packaging capabilities featuring Pleasant Holidays products in Hawaii, Mexico, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and selected cities in the continental United States. Agencies can offer clients commissionable self-booking options to any or all of Pleasant Holidays' destinations.

For more information on the Pleasant Holidays Online Partner Link Program, visit PleasantAgent.com or call 800-482-2865. For more on Passport Online's programs, visit www.PassportOnlineInc.com or call 503-626-7766, ext. 304. Agencies already using VacationPORT and wishing to establish the Pleasant Holidays/Passport Online linkage can reference the "Online Booking Engines" section of their VacationPORT Site Administration interface.

For More Information, Contact:

Passport Online, Inc.
Randy Goodrich, 503-626-7766 ext. 3030
email: randyg@passportonlineinc.com