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World Travel Awards - Winners Special: Travelocity

Hotel Booking Following the success of the World Travel Awards 2003, Internet Travel News brings you a winners-week special edition, complete with live photography and post-show interviews.

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 They also receive daily emails and faxes with new specials from resorts and hotels that may not be published on the internet.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.

Travel Agency Today we speak to Tedd Evers, Director, Caribbean & Europe Partner Marketing, Travelocity - "World's Leading Travel Internet Site".

Groople In the News Travelocity Teams with Groople to Offer Group Hotel Bookings New shopping tools added to Travelocity's hotel booking engine let travelers book 5+ rooms in a single reservation SOUTHLAKE, Texas and DENVER (February 1, 2005) Planning this summer's faraway family reunion Or maybe you're a coach needing a bunch of rooms for that upcoming youth tournament If so, you'll want to check out new functionality on Travelocity that makes planning and booking group travel a snap. Today, Travelocity announced an agreement with Groople Inc., a leading provider of online group travel bookings that gives Travelocity customers a specialized groups section with discounted hotel rates, group content and new planning features that are unavailable on other travel sites.

Cheap Hotel Click here To see a complete list of travel technology winners.

Flight Booking 1. What does a World Travel Award mean to you?
It tells me that what were doing at Travelocity is resonating throughout the industry and that we have to stay motivated moving forward if we want to continue receiving such recognition.
2. Where did you put your trophy?
We have are fortunate enough to have a trophy case in the lobby of our Dallas office Im sure this award will end up sharing space there with our previous ones.
3. How important are awards in our industry?
Again, recognition from industry peers is a sign of success, but in our space there is no time for resting on laurels. Otherwise, you might not even be invited to next years awards show.
4. How did you achieve the worlds best in technology this year?
Its a testament to the teams we have in place throughout the company. They put in the long hours to make sure our technology is always serving the needs of our customers and is always looking for new ways to serve them even better. Theyre an amazing group.
5. How will you ensure you maintain your high standards in the coming year?
We know that if we dont our competitors will react accordingly and we cant afford to let that happen not just from a winning awards standpoint, but from an overall business perspective as well

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Travel Agent Tomorrow we will feature an exclusive interview with Barbara Helzlsouer, Regional Director NYC, Sabre Holdings, winners of the World's Leading CRS/GDS System.

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 World Travel Awards, division of World Travel Group, will be making their presence felt at this years World Travel Market (WTM), the travel industrys biggest international business to business event, which will take place on Monday 10th - Thursday 13th November at ExCeL, London.

Online Booking WTA will Take centre stage at the WTM for the re-enaction of the World Travel Awards ceremony to show the world who triumphed at last months award ceremony. WTA will also be hosting 10 internet cafes based at key locations around World Travel Market including the Asia, Africa, Latin America, Caribbean and UK areas with broadband wi-fi (wireless) access.

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