Since 1995, Passport Online has been distributing leisure travel product offers to retail agencies and consortia who use Passport Online’s VacationPort system to promote leisure travel to their clients.

Working closely with the leading leisure travel suppliers, Passport Online aggregates the latest product information and pricing into the central VacationPort database. Each product offer is formatted to be displayed within any web site or email promotion. Each offer is also given attributes identifying the destination, type of travel, effective dates (auto purge), interests and supplier information, so that consumers can quickly search and find specific types of travel offers.

There are three different interfaces of VacationPort:

• Site Administration — allows agency or consortia to manage their version(s) of VacationPort, select and preference suppliers, and view online activity reports.
• AgentPort — the extranet view for agents to use as both a research tool for clients and as an email marketing portal (as seen in example below, right).
• Consumer view — is the most widely accessed view of offers and provides the consumer with information and pricing for specific offers, with an opportunity to shop before contacting the agent.
  

The VacationPort Network is a consumer promotional network for suppliers. Over 90% of all activity is created by consumers, so the primary emphasis of the VacationPort is to promote the latest leisure travel offers to the clients of the members of the Network. Click here to see a graphic on how the process works (graphic opens in new window).

• Major consortia clients: AAA, American Express, Carlson Leisure Group (CWT, Cruise Holidays, Results, Trip Force), Cruise Shoppes, Ensemble Travel Group, Jurni, Navigant/SATO, Uniglobe USA and Vacation.com.
  
  
• Independent agent groups: Agenta, Global Travel Intl, Joystar, Prestige Travel, Travel Service Network and many other agencies who have large outside agent networks.)
  

Suppliers participating in the VacationPort Network are provided an extranet (PromotionPort) where they can view live reports on Network activity.