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Site59 Reveals That Travellers Making Plans Later Now

Hotel Booking Site59 reports more people are buying travel closer to the time of departure.

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.

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Cheap Hotel Site59`s industry data shows that 20% of purchases are being made one day before departure, 55% buy 3 days before departure and 80% within 7 days based on sales of its last minute packages sold through Travelocity, Orbitz, Yahoo!Travel, American Express, American Airlines Vacations, LowestFare.com, BestFares.com, Site59.com, travel agents and a variety of other distribution partners and affiliates.

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 According to a PhocusWright survey this month, 21 million Americans "usually" buy their travel online, up 75% from 2000, and nearly 27 million Americans have now bought travel online at least once, up from 21 million last year, representing 13% of the American population.

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.

Travel Agent For the week of November 2nd, Dallas was the most popular domestic destination and Puerto Rico the most popular international destination, with New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, London and Cancun in close contention for that time period. For the week prior, San Francisco, London and Dallas were in the top three. Site59`s worldwide network of supplier partners is growing and includes recently signed Hyatt Hotels, SRS-World Hotels, Indecorp, and Carlson brands, as well as more than 2100 other partners.

Groople, the leading online group travel planning and booking site, announces the launch of an exciting travel and social networking tool, offering an integrated solution for the challenges of planning and booking group travel. GroopVine will allow users to create their own personalized trip page to plan, create, share, shop and buy travel with their entire group's input every step of the way. Providing helpful tools from event schedules and suggested itineraries to RSS feeds and online surveys, GroopVine makes group travel planning fun, collaborative and easy.

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