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BIGGEST HOST AGENCY IN USA SIGNS WITH PLACESTOSTAY
(London, May 30, 2006) The biggest home-based, part time travel agency business in the USA, InteleTravel.com, has signed a deal with online hotel reservation programme PlacesToStay.com (www.placestostay.com).
Under the terms of the deal, announced today by InteleTravel.com and PlacesToStay owner FEXCO AllTravel, thousands of part-time independent agents worldwide will be supplied with its hotel accommodation inventory of over 25,000 properties offering attractive rates and commission payments.
Based in Florida and established in 1998 as the online successor to InteleTravel International, the originator of the home-based travel agent concept, InteleTravel.com is a licensed online travel agency with a worldwide network of tens of thousands of independent travel agents who use InteleTravel.com's booking systems.
Through exclusive relationships with preferred travel suppliers such as Carnival Cruise Lines, Avis, British Airways, Royal Caribbean, Club Med and many others, InteleTravel.com agents can book all major travel products at market-leading prices and earn commissions of up to 15 percent.
Enrolling as an InteleTravel.com agent costs $199, plus a monthly fee of $9.95. In return, agents get a tutorial on using the cutting edge and largely intuitive InteleTravel.com booking engine and linked processes, plus an industry-recognized travel agent ID card that earns discounts and other privileges from travel suppliers.
Many InteleTravel.com agents use the system to cut travel costs for their own businesses while also receiving commissions on travel customers from among their families, friends, co-workers etc.
FEXCO AllTravel comprises PlacesToStay.com, Gulliver Ireland, NovaCarHire.com and TeeTimes.ie. Gulliver is Ireland's leading provider of tourist information and reservation services, and owns the GoIreland.com portal, the leading online consumer shop window for Irish tourism products and services. Novacarhire.com is an online car rental broker that combines the best rates in almost 5,000 destinations worldwide with old-fashioned customer service. TeeTimes.ie features discounted rates and online availability at over 40 Irish golf clubs and is Europe's first real-time online golf booking network.
Tim Wright, FEXCO AllTravel's head of distribution and business development, said: "This is a great deal with InteleTravel.com as it puts PlacesToStay on the desktops of many thousands of active agents in the US and abroad. InteleTravel.com is a seriously big business achieving many millions of dollars of sales through its home-based and other independent travel agents. I expect good booking volumes through the InteleTravel.com network as our hotel inventory extends its product range."
"Homeworker agents are a growing force here in the UK too, and I see good opportunities for online-based product suppliers like PlacesToStay. Quick, secure, always available and with a great range of hotels, PlacesToStay should be a natural supply partner for the homeworking community."
According to James Ferrara, Senior Vice President of Marketing for InteleTravel.com, "InteleTravel.com promises our independent agents and their customers the best value and selection in the online travel world. Preferred agreements like this one with PlacesToStay allow us to deliver on that promise."
"Thanks to cutting edge technology, with a click, our agents can now access 25,000 more hotel properties at the best rates - moving market share to PlacesToStay.com suppliers through the power of personal relationships and endorsements to their circles of influence," he added.