TravelStoreMaker.com's Internet Booking Engine Sharpens Worldspan EMEAA Competitiveness

TravelStoreMaker.com's Internet Booking Engine Sharpens Worldspan EMEAA Competitiveness

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- TravelStoreMaker.com, a leading Internet travel technology and Travel Business Process Outsourcing provider, is positioned to increase its market position in Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa (EMEAA). TravelStoreMaker.com and Worldspan, one of the world's largest global distribution system (GDS) companies have signed a licensing agreement under which Worldspan will market TravelStoreMaker.com's IBE to travel agencies in more than 30 countries throughout EMEAA.

At the moment TravelStoreMaker.com provides its services to a number of US and Canadian customers such as TravelCUTS Canada and to numerous travel agencies in Europe.

TravelStoreMaker.com's chief executive officer John Hazlewood says: "Travel agencies require a simple-to-use and cost-effective online solution. Worldspan's decision to market our product and services shows their confidence in our capabilities, and promotes the fact that we have created a state-of-the-art solution for the travel industry."

The TravelStoreMaker.com IBE enables real-time air, car and hotel bookings through a direct link to Worldspan's GDS inventory of over 200 million fares, 465 airlines, more than 62,000 hotels and over 25,000 car rental locations.

TravelStoreMaker.com's IBE supports 16 languages. Travel agencies worldwide wanting to enhance their web site with state-of-the-art travel content can use TravelStoreMaker.com's IBE that will enable the agency to receive bookings 24 hours a day from around the world.

The key benefits for the agency using the TravelStoreMaker.com IBE include the ability to automatically create online travel storefronts with the look and feel of the travel agency's web site, flexible date and time formats and multiple flight search types including searching for flights by availability, fare or schedule. This tool can be used to manage both leisure and corporate travel and is applicable for use by both IATA and home based or other non-IATA agencies.

The technology also offers a dynamic packaging capability to maximize the revenues of travel agencies and tour operators. Capable of accessing published, negotiated, consolidator, and market-specific fares, TravelStoreMaker.com provides a powerful and multifunctional travel solution for both travel agencies and consolidators.

Paolo Pezzoli, President of Wireless SpA, an Italian travel agency that provides the TravelStoreMaker.com IBE as the desktop booking solution for more than 3,000 non-IATA travel agencies in Italy described the IBE as an easy-to-use, adaptable and cost-efficient solution for his business model.

Pezzoli states, "Wireless can rely on TravelStoreMaker.com's dynamic approach for customising the solution to satisfy customer expectations. We're very happy with their customer service, rapid response times and quick implementation of new system requirements."

Wireless is also a provider of the TravelStoreMaker.com IBE to numerous Italian portals as travel sites with the look and feel of the portal.

Note To Editors / Key agency benefits of the TravelStoreMaker.com IBE include:

* Automatically create online travel storefronts with the look and feel
of the travel agency's Web site.

* Multiple language, currency, payment type and delivery options for
multi-country operations

* Flexible date and time formats

* Multiple search options by availability, fare or schedule

* Multiple ticketing locations

* Passenger type options

* Dynamic packaging capability to maximise revenues

* Access to published, negotiated and consolidator fares, as well as
market-specific fares

* Distinguishes GDS published fares from CAT 35 ATPCO-loaded net and Web
fares

* Ability to create a single PNR with flights, hotel reservations and
car bookings

About TravelStoreMaker.com


TravelStoreMaker.com is a leading Internet Travel Technology and BPO services provider established in 2000 by private investors as a US Delaware Corporation with primary operation located in Sofia, Bulgaria. TravelStoreMaker.com's multilingual Internet Booking Engine powers thousands of travel websites, including the sites of airlines, travel agencies and web portals. The technology enables customers to plan, schedule and book flights, hotel rooms and rental cars via the Web. The reservation system offered by the company utilizes a highly functional search and booking platform offered by Worldspan. TravelStoreMaker.com also offers Business Process Outsourcing services such as air fares loading and management, call centre services, after hour customer support and outbound telemarketing. TravelStoreMaker.com has signed corporate, leisure and student travel agencies, consolidators and airline companies in 20 countries. For information visit http://www.travelstoremaker.com/

MEDIA CONTACT:

Ralitza Mario, PR Executive, TravelStoreMaker.com, Tel toll free 1 877-878-6731, +359 (2) 933 3841, Email: ralitza.mario@travelstoremaker.com


Source: TravelStoreMaker.com

CONTACT: Ralitza Mario, PR Executive of TravelStoreMaker.com,
+1-877-878-6731, or +359 (2) 933 3841, ralitza.mario@travelstoremaker.com

Web site: http://www.travelstoremaker.com/


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