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TravelNow.com forms Alliance with WorldTravelCenter.comSM
to Bring Global Travel Insurance Online
Alexandria, Virginia and Springfield, Missouri
It's about time a U.S.-based online travel agency figured out what international online travel agencies have known for years: Web savvy world travelers want top quality, affordable, and easy-to-understand travel insurance and protection.
In order to offer online, real-time sales of comprehensive, easily understood global travel protection plans designed to protect travelers of all nationalities, Springfield, Missouri-based TravelNow.com, a web-based travel agency specializing in worldwide hotel reservations, has formed an alliance with online travel insurance marketer, WorldTravelCenter.comSM, of Alexandria, Virginia.
"Most major travel sites based outside the United States already offer travel insurance...and many have integrated travel insurance options into their primary reservations offerings," said Hershel Kleinberg, division president of SMS Interactive, the company responsible for designing and managing WorldTravelCenter.com. SMS Interactive is the Internet and electronic commerce development and marketing division of Senior Market Sales, Inc., based in Omaha, Nebraska.
"Whereas most U.S.-based travel sites have just begun thinking about offering travel protection and are moving slowly on the matter, Jeff Wasson, [president of TravelNow.com], quickly saw the added value our selection of global travel protection plans could provide customers, and acted immediately to make it possible," explained Kleinberg.
"We'd been thinking about offering travel insurance for a while. It was really a question of the right kind of plans from the right kind of company... and then when WorldTravelCenter.comSM came along, I knew we had a winner. For one thing, their international emphasis works to our strengths; about 30 percent of our business is international," said TravelNow.com's President Wasson.
This isn't the first time Wasson has positioned TravelNow.com ahead of the Internet travel curve. His company has grown dramatically over the past two years, due largely to its wildly successful affiliate program. At last count, TravelNow boasted upwards of 4,000 affiliates worldwide, and according to Wasson, there's no end in sight. In a February 4th Interactive Travel Report interview, Wasson predicted TravelNow would process about 150,000 transactions in 1999. Today, that figure looks to be closer to 300,000.
WorldTravelCenter.comSM is more than just a place to buy comprehensive, easy-to-understand global travel protection plans. Visitors can browse and research detailed policy descriptions, get price quotes, receive guidance on selecting policies, and explore jetStream, WorldTravelCenter.comSM's companion travel magazine, with original travel articles and photos, news, weather, useful travel links, and more.
Although the majority of helpful information on WorldTravelCenter.comSM is unrestricted, certain enhanced features and services are available only to registered users. For example, only registered users can purchase plans online in real-time, update personal profiles, download forms, and access comprehensive policy purchase records and detailed coverage information.
Thanks to WorldTravelCenter.comSM, the world traveler's one-stop web shop for global travel protection, worry-free travel with TravelNow.com is now simple, affordable, and conveniently available online 24 hours a day, anywhere in the world.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brian Cook
Interactive, Inc./WorldTravelCenter.comSM
1630 Duke Street, 3rd Floor
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 1+703.299.6001
Fax: 1+703.299.1788
Email: brian@insuractive.com
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