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News
Release
UNIGLOBE Travel Expands
Partnership with Passport Online To Access Leisure Product for its
Total Access Websites
BEAVERTON, OR- (Oct. 21, 2002) Uniglobe
Travel (USA) LLC announced it has renewed its VacationPORTTM
contract with Passport Online Inc. offering online vacation shopping
and marketing capabilities to UNIGLOBE agencies in the U.S.
"We have had enthusiastic response from our UNIGLOBE agencies for
the VacationPORT product and the capabilities it provides us to
promote leisure travel to our clients through our agency website
program," said Malcolm Read, President of UNIGLOBE Travel USA. "It
provides our agencies with an e-marketing edge that can't be found
elsewhere. The continuous support from Passport resulted in our
desire to have Passport enhance our UNIGLOBE Cruise Navigator agency
sales tool as well."
Passport provides full service implementation and integration to
all UNIGLOBE agencies in the U.S. including UNIGLOBE CruiseCenters
and UNIGLOBE InHouse Travel franchisees. In addition, the UNIGLOBE
Cruise Navigator agency tool with over 100 exclusive cruise groups
will now be managed and enhanced by Passport's technology. UNIGLOBE
will continue to maintain the supplier relations and content strategy
of the Cruise Navigator tool.
"We at Passport are thrilled to be extending our partnership with
Uniglobe and look forward to providing an enhanced Cruise Navigator
product. Our focus this year will be to work with UNIGLOBE to engage
the participating agencies in pro-active e-marketing campaigns to
their customers," said Greg Kott, President and CEO of Passport.
VacationPORT is a comprehensive web-marketing program that connects
leisure suppliers to travel agencies, corporations, and consumers.
Agencies manage the VacationPORT system and content, leveraging
their preferred supplier relationships. In addition, VacationPORT
includes easy-to-use tools like supplier offer emails and offer
newsletter templates to help agencies proactively market leisure
travel to their customers.
About Uniglobe Travel (USA) LLC.
Uniglobe Travel (USA) LLC is a region within The UNIGLOBE Group,
a worldwide full-service travel franchise organization. UNIGLOBE
Travel Professionals provide highly personalized business travel
management services to mid-sized corporate clients and offer specialized
vacation planning to cruise and leisure travelers. The 900 UNIGLOBE
locations in more than 20 countries generate $1.9 billion in gross
sales annually. UNIGLOBE was founded by U. Gary Charlwood in 1980
and has its world headquarters in Vancouver, Canada, and its U.S.
regional headquarters in Irvine, California.
About Passport Online
Passport Online connects travel
industry suppliers and retailers to a broad range of travel buyers.
VacationPORT is a sophisticated marketing system to actively promote
and influence the flow of travel offers throughout the sales cycle
in a highly customizable manner. VacationPORT has been selected
by top U.S. travel companies as a comprehensive web marketing program
to build leisure travel sales, as well as many of the top cruise,
tour, and hotel companies in the world to distribute and market
their latest product and pricing information. For more information
about Passport Online, see the web site at www.passportonlineinc.com.
For More Information, Contact:
Passport Online, Inc.
Greg Kott, President/CEO, 503-626-7766 ext. 3020
email: gregk@passportonlineinc.com
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