News Release

Carlson Leisure Group Expands VacationPORT Agreement

BEAVERTON, OR - (Sept. 15, 2003) — Passport Online today announced that Carlson Leisure Group (CLG) has renewed its VacationPORT contract to continue providing valuable online content and special offers for the Carlson travel agencies as well as expand the operation to more retail locations and enhance the Carlson redemption program for its clients.

Passport Online provides content and special product offers for both CLG's franchise units—including Carlson Wagonlit Travel Associates and Cruise Holidays—and its Carlson Leisure Travel Services division. Under the terms of the new contract, CLG plans to expand the electronic marketing program to even more Carlson Wagonlit Travel Associates and Cruise Holidays units via their respective CarlsonTravel.com and CruiseHolidays.com Web sites.

The contract also calls for enhancing the VacationPORT shopping tool that Carlson Leisure Travel Services incorporated into its redemption program capabilities designed specifically for its clients, including leading credit card companies and financial institutions.

"We are striving to provide our franchisees' customers with quality experiences in online shopping for cruise and vacation product while giving our Carlson Wagonlit Travel and Cruise Holiday agencies a consistent, valuable electronic marketing package," said Roger Block Executive Vice President, Carlson Travel Franchise Group. "We believe VacationPORT gives us the capability and flexibility to do both."

To date, thousands of new leads have been generated from CLG's franchise sites using VacationPORT. These leads have gone to Carlson Wagonlit Travel and Cruise Holidays agencies nationwide. Additionally, over 600 exclusive Carlson-specific offers have been loaded into VacationPORT that are available only to its travel agency locations.

Presently, over 160 Carlson Wagonlit Travel Associates and Cruise Holiday agencies have VacationPORT on their individual consumer Web sites. According to Carlson Leisure Group, they have enthusiastically embraced the email marketing tools and are successfully sending product offers out to their respective customer bases.

In addition, Carlson Leisure Travel Services—which has become one of today's top service providers for credit card companies, financial institutions and others in travel fulfillment loyalty programs—not only uses VacationPORT content on its own TripForce Web site, but will now also enabling its roster of clients to include this content on their own specific travel redemption sites.

"VacationPORT provides us with another excellent tool filled with additional travel options for our clients to offer their customers," noted Eric Burdon, executive vice president of Carlson Leisure Travel Services. "We've been very pleased with the wide variety of content—ranging from short weekend getaways to luxury travel—that we've been able to provide via TripForce. In addition to those travel packages that we offer exclusively, VacationPORT has helped us to further maximize the potential of our overall capabilities by neatly bundling packages we can't get anywhere else."

Passport's President/CEO Greg Kott stated: "We are thrilled to have Carlson as such a valued customer and are working closely with them to enhance the VacationPORT product to meet the needs of their web hosting initiatives. Carlson's agency network are among the best travel agents in the nation and we are helping them provide their clients with the best travel opportunities at the best prices."

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 and pricing. 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 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.