Travelong chooses FAREPORTAL as its Corporate Booking Engine.

Oct 23rd, 2003

New York, -- Travelong, which built its reputation as the the largest independently owned corporate travel agency of New Jersey, and has recently moved its headquarters to New York City, today selected FAREPORTAL to provide it with a corporate travel booking engine.

Peter Elmstrom, CEO of Travelong said after looking at several online booking solutions, they settled on FAREPORTAL, "because of its ability to handle the types of complex itineraries which no other engine can presently handle, such as multi-airline, multi-connection fares and stopover bookings." Corporations are demanding fares from every available source, and until now it required a highly skilled travel agent to research and construct such complex itineraries from available contracts. FAREPORTAL combines published, contract and Web fares on a single screen, and can handle highly customized itineraries with up to 14 legs. This versality and power makes the booking engine a real tool which increases productivity and profit, and provides a competitive edge to corporate travel agencies using the system. FAREPORTAL combines the comprehensiveness of the GDS and the last minute appeal of the Web with private contract fares to create the first booking engine worthy of being called a PORTAL.

For corporate bookings, FAREPORTAL includes a complete three tiered profile system which can handle account or corporation specific information as well as individual memberships and preferences. The Quick Profile feature allows immediate profile saving for a new traveler, in line with the productivity enhancing design of the entire system.

"The corporate agency will find that this is the easiest and most effective search and booking engine for air fares available," said Avik Chopra, CIO of FAREPORTAL. "Not only is FAREPORTAL easier for travel agents to use, it's completely tailored to the wants and needs of the corporate traveler, including every available airfare as well as the lowest hotel and car rental rates with optional travel insurance." FAREPORTAL is supported by a fully staffed call center located in the heart of New York City to ensure an immediate resolution to special requests and fulfillment issues from member agencies.

The Benefits to Corporate Travelers

With the available Private Label option, member agencies can offer their corporate travelers the ability to check flight availability to any city, anytime, anywhere in the world at their convenience. FAREPORTAL has been designed with the corporate traveler in mind, allowing complex search results in two easy steps and the booking with one additional step. Stopover itineraries, such complex international trips or road-shows and multi-city meetings, are booked in a simple step by step process. The corporate agency can enhance their value and brand while providing their travelers immediate access to the best value in air travel with the strength of FAREPORTAL's world wide buying power. Powered by FAREPORTAL, you can empower your clients with the ability to book flights on almost any and all airlines in the world, and complete their itinerary with the best value in hotels and car rentals, with optional travel insurance.

Patent Pending Software Powers Booking Engine

FAREPORTAL's IT department has developed in-house proprietary software, with several pending patents, to provide users with the most comprehensive selection of fares from multiple sources on the chosen dates and destination. Additionally, exclusively negotiated hotel rates, which are guaranteed to be the lowest, and the widest available selection of car rental rates and optional travel insurance are included in the system, making it the most complete corporate booking system available today.