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Release UNIGLOBE Travel Expands Agency Website Program that Offers Local Touch for Consumers Coupled with a Global Reach VANCOUVER, B.C. - (August 16, 2004) — UNIGLOBE Travel (International) Inc. today announced further expansion of the travel organization's Total Access 3 agency website program now operating in over ten countries worldwide. UNIGLOBE agencies in the United States, Western Canada, Great Britain and Ireland and throughout Southern Africa have adopted an innovative website program that benefits the agency and consumer alike. The Total Access 3 (TA3) agency website program was launched earlier this May and enables agencies worldwide to benefit from its unique template driven design for either corporate or leisure agencies or those with a corporate/leisure mix. TA3 brings together in one place the 3 vital players in any travel transaction/relationship ö agency, supplier, and consumer. This third version of the program has more features, easier to use functions, time-sensitive content and expanded training and support available to agents as just a few of the improved components. Two primary components for agencies include point-and-click editing and easy to use visual administration. These components allow agencies to make changes to their website within seconds, without requiring any knowledge of HTML; and to see what changes they are making right on screen. UNIGLOBE agencies utilizing the program have been enthusiastic about its ease of use and how it benefits their clients. Agencies have found the ease of developing a website from an existing template that is fully customizable for their local market a blessing for those without the resources or time needed to build a website from scratch. "With little web experience and effort, we are able to offer a professional website. All the tools I need are provided in user-friendly formats that can be customized to give a completely unique website that has up-to-date information for my customers," said Mitchell Hicks, Owner of UNIGLOBE McIntosh Travel in Newnan, Georgia. Clients searching for information or booking through the TA3 websites have also benefited greatly says Debbie Masters of UNIGLOBE VIP Travel in Centerville, Ohio. "So many features of the new and improved TA3 website have helped my customers with their travel planning," said Masters. "My clients have found the booking engine capabilities state of the art ö with the most popular booking engines incorporated. The quick and simple form builder that can be customized for online reservations, registrations and customer travel profile has also helped us and customers in making the information exchange easier and quicker." "Also our corporate account clients have been very responsive to the online reporting tools that assist with their travel fund management. Clients can track their bookings, registrations, travel funds all with current data to help them manage their accounts in an optimal manner, said Masters. TA3 is a "must" in order to remain competitive in the travel industry. As an owner who accepts change and embraces technology, TA3 is an imperative, if not the most imperative tool in my agency's current and continued success." TA3 differs from other web management products on the market in the fact that it is proprietary software, owned and developed for UNIGLOBE agencies by UNIGLOBE. The result has been a system that is very flexible in design and capabilities as well as overall use and responds directly to what agencies had been asking for in a web tool. The TA3 agency website program is also being expanded to independent USA agencies through the New Millennium Program menu of offerings. The New Millennium Program focuses on providing agencies with the tools and systems to grow their corporate business and to increase their leisure sales, as well by marketing leisure travel to corporate clients. Additionally, for the third year in a row, UNIGLOBE has renewed its partnership with Passport Online to offer Vacation Passport, a powerful e-marketing and travel search tool, as a part of the TA3 program. This tool allows agencies to offer exclusive travel deals to customers, both on their website and through email, thus enhancing customer service and marketing opportunities while offering UNIGLOBE clients the very best in travel offers. About The UNIGLOBE Group The UNIGLOBE Group is the world's largest single brand travel franchise organization with 750 locations in more than 24 countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Operating under a well-recognized brand name, UNIGLOBE travel agencies specialize in providing travel services to small-to-medium sized corporate accounts and to leisure travelers. The UNIGLOBE Group has its U. S. headquarters based in Irvine, CA and the world headquarters in Vancouver, B.C. About the UNIGLOBE Group For More Information, Contact: Passport Online, Inc. |
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