Airtreks.com Makes Multi-stop Airfares Even Easier: TripPlanner 5.0 Enables Simpler "one-click" Pricing for the Most Complex International Trips
(ContentDesk) June 6, 2005 -- An improved online tool from Airtreks.com (http://www.airtreks.com) makes planning and pricing multi-stop international airfares easier than ever before.Using the new version 5.0 of Airtreks.com's patent- pending "TripPlanner", visitors to the Airtreks.com Web site can now pick a list of destinations from a world map, get instant "one-click" airfare estimates and options for a trip including all of their destinations, and much more.Since TripPlanner 1.0 went live in 1998, Airtreks.com has been the only site on the Web that can price customized "around-the-world" and other complex international air itineraries, without restricting travelers to a limited menu of standard routes or a maximum number of destinations.TripPlanner 5.0 from Airtreks.com is the fastest, easiest to use, and most powerful tool ever available on the Web for pricing and planning complex, customized, international airline journeys.Improvements in TripPlanner 5.0 include the ability to pick destinations simply by clicking on a zoomable world map (or by city name or airport code), and improved features to store and modify the trips you are planning, view them on a world map, explore alternate routes, and share your plans with friends or traveling companions.TripPlanner 5.0 also suggests "more for your money" options including added-value stopovers you could add to your trip. When you are ready to finalize your plans, you can submit the trip you've built on the Web with TripPlanner to one of Airtreks.com's travel experts, who will work with you personally to optimize your flight arrangements.Prices from Airtreks.com for tickets around the world (beginning and ending in the USA) start from less than US$1500 -- less than half the price of the cheapest "RTW" fare published by any of the major airline alliances.Airtreks.com serves a global clientele of international travelers.
TripPlanner 5.0 can price trips starting and ending anywhere in the world -- not just from or to the USA."We've always said that a trip around the world is easier and more affordable than most people think", says Steve Johnson, Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Airtreks.com "Now, with TripPlanner 5.0, we've made our online tools for planning a complex trip just as easy as they are powerful."TripPlanner 5.0 is available now at http://www.airtreks.com.About AirtreksAirtreks.com is the worldwide leader in providing customized, efficient, and affordable air tickets and technology for complex international trips.Airtreks.com provides multi-stop international airfare services to individual leisure and business travelers, group travelers, corporate accounts, tour operators, and retail travel agencies, and powers the complex international airfare services of dozens of other travel Web sites.Airtreks.com enables travelers and travel agents to create customized itineraries -- with an unlimited number of destinations -- and receive instant price estimates. Airtreks' unique global sourcing strategy and proprietary technology make it possible for Airtreks.com to offer international air tickets at substantial discounts from the published fares offered by airlines, typical travel agencies, or other airfare Web sites. And Airtreks' staff of travel consultants, including leading experts on international travel, works with each client to optimize their choices of airlines, routes, and fares..
Cisco Systems Help Link African Internet Professionals Through Academy Program
In the pilot stage of the Project, partnerships and a collaborative education model will be established between Instructors and students using the Cisco Networking Academy Program*.The partnerships are envisaged as a two-way sharing process between all participants withparticular focus on cultural diversity. Launched in 1997, the Academy program has now impacted more than 10,000 Academies in over 151 countries, with curricula now taught in 11 languages. Over 400,000 students are active in Academies in high schools, colleges and universities, technical schools, community based organizations, and other educational programs around the world.The Academy's blended learning model integrates face-to-face teaching with a challenging web-based curriculum, hands-on lab exercises, and Internet-based assessment. Over one million students have successfully completed networking and other IT courses offered as a part of the diverse Academy curriculum.UK Project Manager, Mark Johnson initiated the partnership...
Cisco Systems Help Link African Internet Professionals Through Academy Program
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Discount Air Travel
The Internet is a great resource for finding the best air travel deals, and to find what people are actually paying for the advertised deal. A classic rule of thumb is not to settle for the first website that offers discount fares. Refer to several travel websites before deciding what you think is the best deal.
For flights within and originating from the U.S., Cheaptickets.com is one of the big players in the online airfare-shopping arena. You can use their price alerts tool, which lets you set your price for a particular trip and alerts you to closest matches. Other prominent websites for deals on domestic flights or flights originating from the states are Orbitz, Priceline.com and Hotwire.com.
For international fares, some of the popular sites are Expedia.com and Travelocity.
Internet Airfares is the online service of Destinations Unlimited, a travel agency that scours out low airfares. The site provides a list of 42 North American airports. Clicking...
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SportsGroupie.com: Travel Search for Spring Training and Bowl Games
(ContentDesk) December 8, 2005 -- SportsGroupie.com, an innovator in sports travel search, has added coverage for Major League Baseball 2006 spring training games in Florida and Arizona.
This comes just days after the site added travel search options for the Rose, Orange, Sugar, and Fiesta Bowls. We are committed to meeting the requests of our users, said Ronald Lohse of SportsGroupie.com. They have asked for the ability to build their own itinerary that allows them to attend a wide variety of sporting events. SportsGroupie is not another sports fantasy tour site; we offer real travel meta-search (searching many travel sites for the best deals) and complete flexibility for fans to build their trip. SportsGroupie.coms site allows users to select a sport and team, view the upcoming schedule, and then search for airfares, hotel rates, car rentals, and now tickets.
Sports fans now have all the tools they need to build a custom package for an unforgettable road trip.Travel...
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