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LastMinuteTravel adds cruise lines

Hotel Booking LastMinuteTravel.com is launching speed-enhancing, user-friendly performance upgrades to its Web site, along with the addition of six cruise lines.

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 Agency The additional cruise liners nclude Royal Caribbean International, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Celebrity Cruises, Holland America, Costa & WindStar to its growing portfolio of travel suppliers.

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.

Cheap Hotel The high-performance software multiplies the speed of the LastMinuteTravel.com Web site by ten-fold, reducing search times from eight to 10 seconds to less than one second.

Groople In the News Groople Introduces First Online Booking Engine For Group Cruises Denver, August 17, Groople, the leading online group travel resource, rolls out the first online group cruise booking engine, allowing cruisers to research, book and manage their group bookings online with six of the world top cruise lines. Through Groople.com, groups requesting eight or more staterooms can also tap into special group rates and amenities, which sometimes include a free stateroom.

Flight Booking Other upgrades make the site more user-friendly. For example, visitors now have the option of viewing hotel locations via an illustrated map or a satellite image of the area.

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.

Travel Agent Using the "Hotel Map View," visitors can scroll up and down or shift left and right to widen their search of properties in a given geographical area.

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.

Hotel Chicago In what amounts to a technological first, visitors can now check room availability and book accommodations directly from the map or satellite image. No other travel Web site offers this advanced map feature.

Online Booking "With the introduction of these powerful software enhancements, we are one of the fastest web sites in the travel industry," said Nathan Van Prooyen, LastMinuteTravel.com's director of e-commerce. "When you are marketing to last-minute travelers, they don't want to use precious time waiting for a travel search. By making it much easier and faster for visitors to shop for and book their travel, we are giving them more time to pack for their vacation."

Travel Health Insurance Along with the system upgrades, LastMinuteTravel.com recently added six new cruise lines to its portfolio of travel suppliers. Besides its existing relationship with Carnival Cruise Lines, the company now has agreements with Royal Caribbean International, Costa, Celebrity Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Lines & NCL America, Holland America and WindStar Cruises.

Hotel Reservation The upgrades to LastMinuteTravel.com have been more than a year in the making. Designed by Travel Global Systems (TGS), the technology subsidiary of Travel Holdings, the web site currently has a patent pending for the revolutionary inventory management system.

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