TripRewards® Program Offers Points for Travel Packages

Using the new TripFinder feature on TripRewards.com, members can plan and book entire trips that include flight arrangements, hotel rooms and car rentals and earn six points per dollar spent on the entire package. Booking an average-priced package on TripRewards.com – approximately $800 – yields more than enough points to redeem for a free magazine subscription, movie tickets or admission to an amusement park.

In a first for the program, TripRewards members now can redeem points for free stays at Sol Melia Hotels & Resorts around the world. As of Nov. 23, members can redeem points for free stays at Days and Wingate hotels in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Previously, TripRewards members could redeem points for hotel stays only in United States and Canada.

Peter Strebel, Cendant’s Hotel Group senior vice president of sales and marketing, said the new features add value and convenience to the TripRewards program. “We continue to enhance TripRewards to the benefit of members, who now have another great way to earn points, for international hotel stays.”

Featuring points-earning opportunities with more than 6,000 hotels and 46 partners as well as 140-plus point-redemption options, TripRewards is the world’s largest loyalty program, based on the number of participating hotels.

The program’s “open earn” structure allows members faster access to point earning by staying in Cendant-franchised hotels, renting Avis® and Budget® rental cars and purchasing everyday products and services from earning partners.

Likewise, TripRewards members can redeem their points for either hotel stays – with no blackout dates – or partner rewards including airline tickets, resort vacations, electronics, home appliances, sporting goods, movie and theme park tickets and gift certificates from 46 retailers and restaurants.

TripRewards members may elect to earn either TripRewards points, airline miles or rail points for their hotel stays. A hassle-free online system allows members to check points and redeem for rewards 24 hours a day.

With approximately 90,000 employees, New York City-based Cendant Corporation (NYSE:CD) is primarily a provider of travel and residential real estate services to businesses and consumers in more than 100 countries. Cendant’s Hotel Group, based in Parsippany, N.J., is the world’s largest lodging franchisor with 6,331 hotels representing 507,603 rooms on five continents under the Super 8®, Days Inn®, Ramada®, Travelodge®, Howard Johnson®, Knights Inn®, Wingate Inn® and AmeriHost Inn® brands. Cendant’s franchised hotels sell nearly one out of every five economy and midpriced room-nights in the United States, and Cendant franchises 10.4 percent of the entire U.S. hotel room supply, according to Smith Travel Research and Cendant financial data. All hotels are individually owned and operated under franchise agreements with Cendant subsidiaries.