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Traveldoo Brings Online Rail Reservation to Businesses

Hotel Booking Traveldoo today announced that it is the first software provider to have successfully completed SNCF certification. Thanks to this certification, companies can now book directly train tickets over the Internet.

Groople In the News Groople Selected by Bizbash as Provider for Group Travel Bookings June 1, BiZBash, the preeminent resource for the event planning industry, today announces a partnership with Groople.com, making Groople the exclusive online group travel partner for BiZBash's thousands of event professionals. BiZBash users now have Groople's group travel tools, with the unique ability to research and make group travel arrangements online. While most travel booking sites don't allow for group reservations at all, through BiZBash, hotel bookings for 5 rooms or hundreds of rooms are now simple to book and include special group rates. With an initial offering of hotels, the service will expand to offer airfare, cruise, car and rail bookings online. free number ( 4316) is available for arranging air, cruise, car and rail, as well as more complicated hotel requests.

Travel Agency SNCF mandatory certification demonstrates the ability of technology partners to effectively deliver rail reservation capabilities to companies.

Groople is the leader in online group travel, stop group booking on hotel, cruise, air, bus, and rail, and is backed by partnerships with the largest travel suppliers worldwide. Groople is group travel made easy, offering discounted rates, individual payment options and a single point of contact. With more than 60, 000 hotel choices worldwide and six top cruise lines brought together in an online group booking website, Groople offers unrivaled benefits for the group travel consumer. Groople customer sales center provides personal attention and offers group travel experts to advise leisure group travelers on weddings, family reunions, religious groups, sports teams, and more. Created by twenty travel industry veterans, Groople pioneered the online group travel space and continues to lead the group travel industry in technology, inventory and convenience.

Cheap Hotel Providing business travellers with the ability to book train tickets online with SNCF, Eurostar and Thalys marks a key step towards electronic travel management in Europe. The solution enables to do comparison shopping for transportation services (airlines and railways) in a single click, on a single page. Tickets can be issued and sent by company`s travel agency. In addition, Traveldoo enables to book simultaneously flights, trains, hotel rooms and rental cars from multiple reservation sources. A business traveller leaving from Lyon, France can benefit from a "one-stop-shop" to quickly book a train for Paris, then a flight to New York, rent a car at the airport and reserve a hotel room, all within company`s travel policy.

Groople (www.groople.com), the leader in group travel planning, has partnered with Go10000, a travel focused development and hosting firm, to bring to market a new group collaboration site for the travel space. GroopVine will provide the solution to the complex communication and booking problems group travel planning can create. Enhancing the online travel space by combining the key elements of social networking such as invitations, forums, messaging, photos and video posting, with the best in online travel booking, GroopVine is the only place for group travelers to shop, plan and book together online.

Flight Booking "We are very pleased to be the first to bring the long-awaited online corporate booking solution for both French domestic rail services and international rail travel with Eurostar and Thalys", said Nabih El Aroussi, CEO, Traveldoo. "This new development further illustrates our ability to deliver on our promises".

8mong many firsts for the group market, the new technology platform enables consumers to do something that other sites haven k allowed to book travel and accommodations for more than five rooms in a single online session. Featuring more than 56, 000 hotels, including 7, time group rates, Groople is primed to become the industry largest automated solution for unmanaged group leisure travel, a market estimated at $18 billion to $24 billion. Under its hosted inventory and commission models, Groople generates group bookings niche by niche for hotels and plans to add air, car, cruise, bus and rail later this year.

Travel Agent "SNCF is committed to give corporate customers ever easier access to its products. Selling tickets online to business travellers, now available through our partnership with Traveldoo, is a major step in this direction", said Ccile Queille, Deputy Director, SNCF.

As the premier online booking resource for the $20+ billion leisure group travel market, Groople provides group rates and inventory, allowing consumers to easily plan, book and manage all group travel needs in a single setting. In addition to more than 60, 000 hotels and six major cruise lines, Groople also offers group bookings for air, car, bus and rail.

Hotel Chicago Rail booking functionality is available to large organisations through Traveldoo ShopSite(tm), and can be accessed by SME through online travel agencies using Traveldoo Portal(tm).

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