's Small Business Resource Center will offer TRIP.com's comprehensive travel resources including the ability to:
- Make reservations for airline tickets, hotels and car rentals;
- Obtain travel destination guides for restaurants and entertainment in major cities;
- View flightTracker, the first online tracking system that monitors all commercial domestic flights, offering visual updates of the plane's progress, actual speed, altitude and arrival time.
- Query multiple airline's Web sites for Internet-only fares in one quick search with IntelliTRIP(TM).
"Our alliance with helps us to extend our reach to the growing audience of business travelers online," said Jill Wente, Director of Strategic Alliances, TRIP.com. "'s vibrant community environment is the perfect venue in which to showcase our sophisticated travel planning resources."
"With companies in the United States spending close to $185 billion on business travel last year,* is poised to capitalize on this growing market through this alliance," said Ira Silberstein, Director of Business Development, . "Our partnership with TRIP.com will empower our business travel community with the essential tools to aid them in their traveling plans."
will exclusively feature TRIP.com's travel services in the "Travel Services" area of its Small Business Resource Center () at WebJump, its small business hosting service. TRIP.com's content will also be accessible through links at 's flagship site ().
* According to the Institute of Business Travel Management, as cited in
the New York Times, September 13, 2000.
About Network
is a network of communities that specializes in bringing people together around shared topics of interest. The Company delivers "community" through customized community solutions to major web properties with our best of breed community products (e-mail clubs and web site building tools). The Company also owns the highly targeted leading games information community, , comprised of Happy Puppy, Kids Domain, Games Domain, Console Domain, Chips & Bits (e-commerce site), Computer Games Online and Computer Games Magazine. distributes community services and games content to , CBS , Time Warner's Road Runner, , , AOL UK, Excite UK, Electronics Boutique UK, Netscape UK, , and others. Advertisers include Disney, Sesame Street, Polaroid, Hewlett Packard, Oxy, Sega USA, Nintendo, Fox, Intel, Office Max and Sprint.
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About TRIP.com
TRIP.com (www.TRIP.com), a subsidiary of Galileo International, Inc. GLC, a global travel distribution leader, is the premier one-stop online travel service and technology provider devoted to the mobile professional market, whether traveling for business or pleasure.
The company employs more than 200 employees who provide more than four million registered users with a host of tools and services including round-the-clock reservation capabilities, city, restaurant and hotel information and 24-hour personalized customer service.
In its five-year history, TRIP.com has established relationships with technology leaders and travel partners that have helped the company achieve ongoing increases in site visits and customer profiles, while maintaining its reputation as an online travel industry pioneer.
From the small-business owner or remote-office to the schedule-weary "road warrior" who travels all too often, TRIP.com continues to meet and redefine the needs of this influential audience.
Contact: Esther Loewy Katz, Director of Communications of , 212-894-3604, or [email protected]
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