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Avis and Traveldoo Announce Partnership

Hotel Booking Traveldoo Technologies has joined forces with Avis, Europe`s leading car rental company, to provide business travellers with quick and direct online car rental.

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.

Travel Agency Joint customers can take advantage of online direct access to their negotiated rates with Avis. The solution also supports online quotation, cancellation and modification. It will enable accurate billing into back-end ERP systems and procurement systems, removing manual activity. Traveldoo solutions connect to Avis reservation system using Web Services technology and travel industry standard "Open Travel Alliance" (OTA) XML messages.

"Groople and Avis Budget Group continue to lead innovation in the industry with the launch of our group rental car product. The rapid growth in booking travel online and the size of the group travel segment is driving demand for group based travel tools, " said Mike Stacy, chief executive officer of Groople. "We have demonstrated our leadership in group hotels, breaking tool for cars, which will make their travel planning and booking much easier."

Cheap Hotel "This direct connection to Avis will help us deliver richer content and a more reliable online reservation process to our customers" said Olivier Mindren, Vice-President Marketing, Traveldoo. "Collaboration with Avis is part of our strategic program to enable a direct-to-enterprise channel for products which are not efficiently distributed by Global Distribution Systems (GDS)."

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.

Flight Booking Catherine Rawson, Director of Distribution at Avis Europe said: "We`re delighted to be part of this Traveldoo development. Our technology is undergoing continuous improvement, and the opportunity to develop an even more efficient service to corporate customers is compelling."

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In addition to more than 60, 000 hotels and six top cruise lines, Groople offers group bookings for air, car, bus and rail. In February, Groople partnered with Travelocity, allowing broader distribution of Groople group rates and inventory on Travelocity.com when users select more than 5 hotel rooms. The past year has also brought partnerships with Choice Hotels International, Cendant Hotels, Best Western and La Quinta Hotels, increasing Groople inventory and thus providing even more hotel options for groups booking through the Groople website and call center.

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