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Travelocity.com Named Most Popular Place to Purchase Travel Online

Hotel Booking Despite the growing competition in the online travel industry, online travelers continue to make Travelocity.com Inc. (Nasdaq: TVLY) the most popular place to purchase travel online by a two-to-one margin over any other travel site.

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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.

Cheap Hotel This is just one of the findings of the PhoCusWright Consumer Travel Trends Survey for 2001. Travelocity ranked first in the categories "most- visited online travel site," "most-used online travel site for buying travel online" and "favorite site to buy travel online".

Travel agents obtain some of their information from the same sources as online booking sites such as Orbitz and Travelocity. They also receive daily emails and faxes with new specials from resorts and hotels that may not be published on the internet. Travel agents can also call a place directly to see if they can work out other kinds of special deals for you, something an online site can’t do.

Flight Booking "PhoCusWright`s findings reaffirms Travelocity.com`s position as the leader in online travel," said Terrell B. Jones, president and chief executive officer of Travelocity. "Consumers view us as a trustworthy and reliable brand that gives them the best options when shopping for travel. Combined with our vast database of travel information, customer relationship management, and strong partnerships -- it`s no wonder our popularity continues to be strong. We look forward to the challenge of continuing in such a role."

- It's official; the Internet is the most popular place for consumers to book travel! This is according to a recent PhoCusWright study whose analysis shows 2007 will be the first time transactions on the Internet will account for more than half (54 percent) of all U.S. travel bookings. According to a separate PhoCusWright study, one of the key competitive areas for the online travel industry is in the groups and meetings market, which they say will represent $175 billion by 2008. based, Groople.com.

Travel Agent According to PhoCusWright, an independent travel intelligence company:
-- Twenty-five percent of online travelers have visited Travelocity
within the past year to purchase travel on the site. Twice as many survey respondents visited Travelocity.com, compared to 12 percent for the next closest competitor.
-- Nineteen percent surveyed said Travelocity is their favorite site to buy travel
-- nearly the total of its next two competitors combined.
-- Of those surveyed, Travelocity topped the list of Web sites they most often use when planning or buying travel online.

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 The PhoCusWright survey also concluded that 27 million Americans bought travel online last year, up from 21 million last year. Online travel buyers now represent 13 percent of the travel population.

Online Booking Conducted annually, the PhoCusWright survey takes an in-depth look at the customer experience of shopping for travel online. The survey was conducted by telephone among a random sample of Americans across the country. More than 10,000 individuals were contacted to obtain a sample of 501 "online travelers" -- Americans who`ve flown via commercial carrier in the last year and used the Internet in the last month.

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