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Hotel Booking Dolores Milmoe of Solutions Not Sprawl showed a disregard for facts in her Sept. 21 letter accusing AAA of not supporting transit, pedestrian and bicycle projects.

Groople (www.groople.com), the leading online group travel booking and planning site, has partnered with Hotel Hotline (www.hotelhotline.com), an online hotel reservation site including the properties HotelHotline.com and HotelsCheap.org. Groople provides Hotel Hotline customers with the ability to search for and book group hotels that are appropriate for their group type. Groople's private label solution offers Hotel Hotline with a customized booking solution that satisfies the needs of their users. "Partnering with Groople gives Hotel Hotline access to dependable group booking technology and professional group travel customer service, " said Mike Stacy, CEO of Groople. "HotelsCheap knows the size and growth of the group market and sees Groople as the best way to tap into that market"

Travel Agency In the last year alone, AAA Mid-Atlantic has been on the record supporting the Corridor Cities Transitway, the Purple Line and the Georgetown trolley. We have served on the Montgomery County Blue Ribbon Panel on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety and on the advisory committee it spawned. When a cyclist was killed in a car crash in Sligo Creek Park, AAA called for safety improvements and additional speed enforcement on the parkway. And that's just in Ms. Milmoe's county.

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.

Cheap Hotel Across the region, AAA sponsors more than 35,000 school safety patrols. It also has joined an array of organizations -- including the Sierra Club and the Coalition for Smarter Growth, members of Solutions Not Sprawl -- in supporting the extension of Metrorail to Dulles International Airport. In both Richmond and Annapolis, AAA has lobbied for traffic safety measures that benefit pedestrians and cyclists.

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 Lon Anderson
Director
Public and Government Relations
AAA Mid-Atlantic
Chantilly, MD

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Travel Agent Washington Post - 10/2/2002

Topic: Sprawl

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