Travel Agency Network IT Group Adopts OneLink Booking/Settlement Portal
PR Newswire - March 09, 2006 08:40
Network of Traditional and Home-Based Agencies to Benefit from Travel Industry's First-Ever e-Reservation Services with Upfront Commission Payment
SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- OneLink Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: OLKT), a provider of integrated global distribution and financial settlement services to the travel and tourism industry, today announced that IT Group, one of the largest combinations of affiliated agencies in the travel services industry, has adopted OneLink's booking/settlement portal, CCRAonelink, for use by its 1,200 members. Rollout of the portal will be taking place over the next three weeks.
IT Group, based in Ponte Vedra, Florida, is unique among agency networks due to its structure as well as its menu of services. Among the group's many members are several hundred home-based agents of Gould Travel Management, Inc. (GTM) who access a broad range of business and product support services via the Internet. GTM, an IT Group affiliate, offers a range of online services including a professional chat room that enables home-based agents to receive instant advice or answers to questions from other agents.
"IT Group is a leader in flexible, technology-based services that enable experienced travel agents to do their jobs as professionally as possible. OneLink meets this standard on a number of fronts," said Don Gould, president and CEO of IT Group. "As an e-service, the OneLink portal fits perfectly with our intranet service model. It also provides the best possible rooms and rates at over 80,000 top quality hotel properties worldwide. Best of all, however, OneLink is able to pay agency commissions upfront for many types of travel services-a true breakthrough for the independent agent."
Through its pioneering Internet technology and its partnerships with Amadeus, Sabre, Hotels.com and PayPal, CCRAonelink is the first booking service that combines exceptional reservations capability with guaranteed upfront settlement. OneLink's service is unique in the travel services industry outside of the airline segment.
"OneLink is excited to join with IT Group in offering its members a truly valuable business improvement," said Bill Guerin, chairman and CEO of OneLink. "We believe the CCRAonelink portal will become an integral part of those members' businesses through its competitive rate structure and its singular upfront commission payment."
CCRAonelink is presented to IT Group members in conjunction with OneLink's Computerized Corporate Rate Association (CCRA) hotel marketing service. The CCRA Preferred Rate Hotel Program has been a longtime offering of IT Group to its members.
About OneLink Corporation:
OneLink (OTC Bulletin Board: OLKT) is a provider of integrated global distribution and financial settlement services to the travel and tourism industry. The firm is the first of its kind to offer non-airline travel suppliers the ability to distribute a pre-paid product through travel agents worldwide, and to effect financial settlement through a single, online global distribution and financial settlement system. OneLink's mission is to increase the number and quality of online bookings made through global retail travel channels while improving cash flow and reducing distribution costs, ultimately resulting in lower prices for the consumer. Headquartered in San Francisco, OneLink is operated by an experienced team of travel distribution professionals, financial settlement experts and established global technology specialists. For more information, visit www.onelinkcorp.com.
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