Galileo Canada has released its unique travel Web portal, TravelGalileo.com, an online travel booking solution that combines the best of e-commerce with the professional service from a customer`s preferred travel consultant.
TravelGalileo.com is a B2B2C solution, free to Galileo Canada subscribers, with the e-commerce needs of Canadian travel agencies front and centre. Signing up to TravelGalileo.com will give agencies their own travel agency branded, content-rich and personalised Web site that can be accessed directly by customers or through TravelGalileo.com`s home page. TravelGalileo.com will help travel agencies attract more of the $18 billion in worldwide online airline ticket sales expected by 2004.(x) TravelGalileo.com is designed to be an easy-to-implement additional point of presence on the Web for participating agencies, serving as a seamless extension to traditional agency `brick and mortar` offices and business processes. Registering for the portal is as easy as sending an e-mail. Once registered, Galileo will work with the agency to create a uniquely branded Web site and URL that travellers can access directly by typing the agency`s unique URL or through the TravelGalileo.com homepage. Currently, 900 US agencies have become registered participants in TravelGalileo.com since the site was launched in the US in September 2000.
Participating agencies can promote special packages on their unique sites, as well as promoting special offers they have negotiated with travel suppliers, incorporating PrivateFares and PrivateFares II. (x) U.S. Online Airline Ticket Sales: Market Forecast and Analysis, 1999-2004 (IDC No. B22662)
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