NEW YORK --
Travel Planners International, a host agency that supports outside
sales agents, independent contractors and retail travel agencies,
said Passport Online will power its consumer Web site at www.agenthub.net.
The deal offers
Travel Planners agents a custom version of the VacationPort
e-commerce marketing program, which is powered by Passport Online
and promotes preferred supplier programs to customers through
integrated e-mail and Web site applications.
Travel Planners
also added Worldspan to its GDS booking options.
Retailers can
learn more about Travel Planners on line at www.travelagentfromhome.com.
To contact
reporter Donna Tunney, send e-mail to dtunney@travelweekly.com.
NEST rolls out new tools at confab
The Network of Entrepreneurs Selling Travel (NEST) also rolled out an agreement with VacationPort and Passport Online during its Flying High conference in Las Vegas last week.
The VacationPort system, said NEST senior vice president Stuart Cohen, will serve as an extension of the existing NESTDirect direct mail program.
The marketing group for home-based retailers also will offer Passport Onlines NexCite Web site building tool to its members, said Cohen.