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Biztravel.com Announces Partnership with Interact Commerce Corporation to Deliver Travel Services via Interact.com
Biztravel Becomes First Travel Provider for New Community Targeting Selling Professionals
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Biztravel.com -- the award-winning business travel Web site that made headlines with its money-back service guarantees -- today announced a partnership with Interact Commerce Corporation (Nasdaq: IACT), the leading provider of interactive selling solutions. As the first travel provider for Interact.com, biztravel will offer Interact.com users a travel booking experience that integrates seamlessly with the calendars and contacts stored in applications they use everyday such as ACT!, Outlook, PDAs and mobile phones.Interact.com is an online subscription service that delivers a host of powerful Web-based services into the applications and devices selling professionals use every day. When users are booking travel from within their contact management application, biztravel automatically recognizes their itinerary requests and accesses their stored travel preferences, creating a new level of ease for busy professionals and eliminating time spent re-creating personal profiles and researching travel options. Through biztravel, Interact.com users have access to FareGuard(SM), a service that allows users to benefit from airline price reductions after purchasing a ticket; automatic upgrades; frequent flyer point tracking; and bizAlerts(SM), real-time wireless alerts, which provide travelers with weather reports in destination cities, flight delays, and gate changes. In addition, Interact users can also take advantage of The Biztravel Guarantee, the first service promise in the travel industry offering refunds for late arrivals or cancellations of flights on five of the world's largest airline.
``Interact.com selected biztravel for a very simple reason: we're the best fit for selling professionals,'' said Justin Shaw, Vice President and General Manager of biztravel. ``Interact users demand the highest level of business services, convenience and competitive prices. Biztravel's existing features -- and its ongoing commitment to wireless technology -- are a natural fit for Interact.com's mobile professionals.''
``Selling professionals notoriously have hectic travel schedules,'' said Phil Myers, president Interact.com division, Interact Commerce Corporation. ``With biztravel, our customers can book their travel quickly and efficiently. Once travel is scheduled biztravel begins to work for our customers, letting them know if their flight is delayed, giving them weather reports and alerting them of gate changes to make their travel experience as simple and easy as possible.''
About Interact Commerce Corporation
Interact Commerce Corporation enables individuals and organizations worldwide to interact more, sell more and grow faster. The company's products include ACT!, the market-leading contact manager used by more than 3 million professionals, SalesLogix, the fastest growing customer relationship management platform used by more than 2700 companies, and the Interact.com business, the premier interactive selling network. Each of these solutions integrates all aspects of the selling process, from mobile sales professionals to support, marketing, accounting and eBusiness partners. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., Interact Commerce can be found on the World Wide Web at www.interactcommerce.com.
About biztravel.com
Biztravel.com is a division of Rosenbluth Interactive, an affiliate company of one of the world's largest corporate travel management companies, Rosenbluth International. Recognized both for its world-class customer service and its cutting edge technology applications, biztravel has been lauded by such prestigious organizations as Forbes Best of the Web, PC Computing, PC Magazine, and The Peppers and Rogers Group, Most recently, biztravel was named one of the top 100 Best Sites for 2000 by Yahoo Internet Life. Biztravel can be found on the web at www.biztravel.com.
Editorial Contact:
Kristina Ford
Interact Commerce Corp.
480/444-1317
mail to:kford@interactcommerce.com
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