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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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