Four Days. Two Events. One Conference.
NEW FOR 2007! NETWORK EXCHANGE
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Networking is a top priority for most attendees at any conference. With over 1,000 people to meet at The PhoCusWright Conference, the Network Exchange helps you get to the right people in an efficient manner. The Network Exchange provides a “home base” to conduct critical business meetings and the tools you’ll need to make your appointments with other attendees. Don’t miss your chance to make the key connections you are looking for.
Maximize your time at the Network Exchange:
- Book your table: A table will be reserved for you in the pavilion where your meetings will take place and lunch will be served.
- Strategize your day: You receive access to the exceptional attendee list in plenty of time to strategize for the Network Exchange.
- Schedule your appointments: PhoCusWright will provide you with a tool to directly contact those you want to meet and keep track of all those important appointments.
- Get down to business!
For registered attendees: Tables are available on a stand-alone basis for $2,000 (cost of registration is not included).
To reserve your table, or for more information, contact Cathy Plummer at +1 860 350-4084 x260.
Add The PhoCusWright Conference dates to your calendar.
Network Exchange Sponsors
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| AMADEUS |
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Pierre-Louis Chouette
Marketing, Multinational/Online Customer Groups
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Amadeus is the chosen technology partner for providers, sellers, and buyers of travel. The company provides distribution, IT and point-of-sale solutions to help its customers adapt, grow and succeed in the fast changing travel industry. Customers include travel providers (airlines, hotels, car rental companies, railway companies, ferry lines, cruise lines, insurance companies and tour operators), travel sellers (travel agencies) and travel buyers (corporations and travelers). Solutions are available for Distribution & Content, Sales & e-Commerce, Business Management and Services & Consulting.
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| PHOCUSWRIGHT CONFERENCES |
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5 reasons why you need to sign up NOW to attend, exhibit or sponsor at The PhoCusWright Conference in 2008
1) Save Time - You know you need to be there, sign up now and save time later.
2) Save Money - Lock in on the lowest prices
3) Room Reservations guaranteed - Pre-registered attendees and sponsors/exhibitors are guaranteed a hotel room in the host hotel.
4) Right of first refusal - Claim your right of first refusal on the exhibit and sponsorship opportunity you want for 2008.
5) Best location- be one of the first to select your location on the exhibit floor.
Meet with Cathy Plummer to register and/or create a stellar sponsorship/exhibition package for your company at The PhoCusWright Conference being held in Hollywood, CA on November 17-20, 2008. Together, you can strategize the best possible exposure for your company at THE Travel Industry Event of 2008.
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| PHOCUSWRIGHT RESEARCH |
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PhoCusWright is the travel industry research authority on the evolving dynamics that influence how travelers, suppliers and intermediaries connect. Independent, rigorous and unbiased, PhoCusWright enables companies to make smart, profitable decisions. PhoCusWright provides global marketplace intelligence, offering an array of qualitative and quantitative research through subscription services, individual reports and sponsored assignments. Areas of emphasis include consumer travel planning behavior as well as industry segmentation, sizing, forecasting, trends and analysis. Clients represent all facets of the industry value chain from around the world.
Meet with Cees Bosselaar to learn more about PhoCusWright’s research services and how they will provide you with the competitive advantage you need in today's dynamic marketplace.
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| ACCESS AMERICA |
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Access America provides travel insurance and assistance to millions of travelers each year and is a brand of World Access Service Corp. A leader in travel insurance and emergency assistance in the U.S., Access America uses cutting-edge technology to deliver customized solutions to enhance value for resorts, airlines, travel agents, credit card companies and more. Among other accomplishments, Access America was the first travel insurance company to offer online claims filing and tracking, and the only to offer real-time policy modification. World Access is a company of the worldwide Mondial Assistance Group and part of the Allianz family of companies.
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| ACXIOM |
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At Acxiom, we make information intelligent. As the global leader in customer information management, we transform data into actionable business insight – and we do it better than anyone else. Acxiom’s enterprise information solutions help the world’s largest and most successful companies increase revenue, reduce cost, improve profit and lower risk. Powered by superior data, technology, services and industry expertise, these multi-channel, client-centric solutions enable better business and marketing decisions that enhance customer acquisition, retention and value. Our lines of business include: Customer Data Integration (CDI), Data Products, IT Services, Digital, Risk Mitigation, Direct Marketing and Consulting.
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| BERKELYCARE |
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Alastair MacMillan-Bell
Senior Vice President, National Accounts
www.berkely.net |
BerkelyCare is a market leader in developing and administering customized travel protection plans in conjunction with travel company partners, including large retailers, cruise lines and tour operators, who offer Berkely plans to over 10,000,000 of their travelers annually.
BerkelyCare uses a consultative approach in developing customized travel insurance solutions for our travel partners to best meet their profitability and service goals while providing appropriate levels of coverage to their distinct customer bases.
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| BLIZZARD INTERNET MARKETING |
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Blizzard Internet Marketing, Inc offers comprehensive marketing, design and hosting solutions to travel, tourism and hospitality clients across the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, and South America. In business since 1996, Blizzard has been delivering effective ROI to their clients for over a decade by packaging search engine friendly design, hosting and optimization techniques.
Voted one of the top 50 Family Friendly businesses in Colorado and consistently in the top 20 SEO firms as ranked by TopSEOs.com, Blizzard is committed to excellent customer service and providing the best possible products for clients at every level.
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| BLUE STAR INFOTECH |
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Rahul Garg
Sr. Manager, Travel & Hospitality Practice
www.bsil.com |
Fusing Travel 2.0 with state-of-the-art technology and industry standards, Blue Star Infotech enables travel and hospitality companies to reach out to their customers more effectively and comprehensively.
Unlock your potential by leveraging our 23 years of IT experience, 7 Global Development and Test Centers compliant with international quality standards. Our Travel R&D Lab, techno-functional experts, and more importantly, our rich expertise built through our relationships with over 25 travel companies across the globe such as AAA Clubs, Costco Travels, Virgin Holidays, Expedia, Hypertech, Blue Sky Travel Systems and Trisept Solutions can provide you that extra edge you require to become a leading player.
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| DATALEX |
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Datalex is a leading provider of travel distribution software and solutions that enable global travel industry suppliers and distributors to deliver increased content and choice to their customers across multiple sales channels, while ensuring lowest cost distribution. Datalex supports millions of travel transactions for each of its customers which include major airlines, travel distributors and hotel and resort groups. Datalex has a worldwide presence across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
The Datalex Travel Distribution PlatformTM suite of applications enables interoperability with central reservations systems; advanced shopping, pricing and packaging capability across multiple distribution channels; direct content procurement from multiple sources; sophisticated air fares and land rates pricing and availability management ensuring competitive customer service and system performance.
For more information visit www.datalex.com
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| EVENTECTIVE |
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With over 100,000 venues featuring 63 facility types, Eventective is the industry leader for online venue selection. More than one million occasional and professional planners visit Eventective every month to find a venue for their next event. Planners generate 25,000 RFP’s per month. When combined with Web site clicks and contact information, Eventective will yield more than 2.2 million leads in 2007.
Meet with us to discover how your business can leverage Eventective’s Content and Lead Generation engine to make an impact in the meetings and events industry today!
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| EVERYSCAPE |
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EveryScape, Inc. is creating the world’s first interactive eye-level search that enables Web users to engage in a totally immersive, photo-realistic world on the Internet. EveryScape is creating a virtual experience of all metropolitan, suburban and rural areas in which users can share their stories and opinions about real-life daily experiences against a backdrop ranging from streets and cities, communities, restaurants, schools, real estate and the like. Leveraging its patented HyperMedia Technology Platform™, EveryScape is using a simple, highly scalable approach that allows the company to tap into local communities and users in building out the online world.
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| GENEXT TRAVELER |
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Dave Pritchett, Senior VP, YPartnership
Gene Quinn, Chairman, PhoCusWright Inc.
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A groundbreaking research study by PhoCusWright, Inc. and Y P A R T N E R S H I P
Most travel service marketers agree that the "next generation" of travelers will differ dramatically from the Baby Boomers and Matures to whom they have catered for the last 15 years. In fact, there is mounting evidence that the "next generation" of travelers will be defined more by their attitudes toward technology than their demographics. Many industry observers view the arrival of this "next generation" of customers with some trepidation, as they don't fully understand their social values, travel habits, brand preferences, loyalties, media habits or intentions. The implications for both new product development and future marketing strategy are profound. Visit with PhoCusWright and Y Partnership to discuss sponsorship opportunities of this ground breaking study that will profile the lifestyles, travel habits and travel intentions of this emerging group of travelers.
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| HITWISE |
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Hitwise is the leading online competitive intelligence service. Only Hitwise provides its 1,400 clients around the world with daily insights on how their customers interact with a broad range of competitive websites, and how their competitors use different tactics to attract online customers.
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| LIBRA SECURITIES |
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Libra Securities, LLC is a full service investment bank serving the financing and advisory needs of the middle market. The Travel Services industry group at Libra has extensive experience selling companies, financing growth plans and advising on acquisitions and turnarounds. Recent assignments include domestic and international projects for offline and online distributors, tour operators, wholesalers, representation companies, travel management companies, specialty travel operators, meta-search firms and travel technology companies. Libra prides itself on its ability to successfully present complex stories to the marketplace and provide clients with multiple financing and strategic options.
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| LUXURY RETREATS |
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Luxury Retreats International is the leader in the luxury villa rental industry, offering over 1600 luxury villas in 70 destinations across the globe through its brands Luxury Retreats, CaribbeanWay and Villa Escapes. Focused on creating a luxury experience with the comforts of home in exotic locations, Luxury Retreats' product caters to the growing desire for customized, authentic travel.
Luxury Retreats is poised at the forefront of its industry, providing personalized service from an international staff of over 100 employees, who speak 12 languages between them in four offices – Montreal, Maui, Barbados and Shanghai. The travel expertise of its villa and concierge specialists is the hallmark of the business. Luxury Retreats is also a full-circle operation that touches on every aspect of the industry—from sales to owner programs to real estate brokerage—to streamline the vacation rental process with innovative tools and new ideas.
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| REARDEN COMMERCE |
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Rearden Commerce, Inc. provides the first online personal assistant that helps people quickly find, purchase, and manage the services they need, based on personal preferences and company policies. The Rearden Commerce Personal Assistant provides easy access to the world's largest marketplace for services, instantly connecting people to more than 137,000 merchants. Whether it's booking a flight or a hotel, making a restaurant reservation, finding event tickets, scheduling a conference call or shipping a package, the Rearden Commerce Personal Assistant simplifies the complex services landscape into one user-friendly experience. With Rearden Commerce, the power of the intelligent Web is finally realized. Rearden Commerce is headquartered in Foster City, CA. For more information, visit www.reardencommerce.com.
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| SITEL |
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Sitel is a global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) leader. The company meets clients’ customer care and transaction processing needs through 67,000 associates in 27 countries. Sitel provides world-class solutions from on-shore, nearshore and offshore locations across 155+ facilities throughout North America, South America, EMEA and Asia Pacific. The company’s award-winning services provide clients with the strategic insight, scale and diversity of offerings to ensure the best return on their customer investment. The company is privately held and majority owned by Canadian diversified company, Onex Corporation. For more information, please visit www.sitel.com.
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| TRAVELPORT |
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Travelport has a nearly 30-year track record operating one of the world’s largest networks of travel brands, content and service offerings. We operate one of the largest GDS businesses in the world through our Worldspan and Galileo brands and provide wholesale travel content through our brand GTA. In addition, Travelport owns a majority share of Orbitz Worldwide, a leading global online travel company. Our team of approximately 7,500 local professionals open new travel possibilities and deliver great value through our 10 travel brands in 145 countries.
From leading distribution technology and wholesale content to corporate solutions and award-winning consumer travel Web sites, Travelport is one of the largest and most geographically diverse travel companies, dedicated to creating the exceptional travel experiences the world demands.
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| TRAVOLUTION |
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Travolution is the only media brand dedicated to the online travel market. Travolution targets the ‘new breed’ of travel companies – online travel agents, travel portals and travel search engines, plus traditional travel agents for whom online is a major part of their business. Travolution also targets a wide range of suppliers – hotels, airlines, tourist boards and ancillary providers, for whom online distribution is key.
Travolution provides essential insight into the changing nature of distribution, technology and marketing in the new world of travel. It combines business intelligence and strategic thinking, with practical implementation of technology and marketing initiatives.
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| TRIPADVISOR |
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TripAdvisor® is the largest travel community in the world, with more than 25 million monthly visitors, five million registered members and 10 million reviews and opinions. Featuring real advice from real travelers, TripAdvisor-branded sites cover 270,000+ hotels and attractions and operate in the U.S. (http://www.tripadvisor.com), the U.K. (http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk), France (http://www.tripadvisor.fr) and Germany (http://www.tripadvisor.de). TripAdvisor provides travel suppliers with graphical advertising opportunities and a cost-per-click marketing platform. TripAdvisor has won hundreds of awards and accolades from press and industry, worldwide.
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| TRIPLIFE |
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TripLife is the most comprehensive networking tool for business travelers who want to meet other professionals during any point of a planned trip. You can search and connect with people on your flight, at the airport, in your hotel, at your event, and in your destination city. TripLife is so comprehensive you can even narrow your search by industry, activities and common interests. TripLife simply makes frequent travel more productive and enjoyable. What’s more, you can build and manage a TripLife Network so you can share your travel plans with contacts and keep up with their travels as well. With TripLife, you’ll never miss a chance to connect with someone important again.
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| TV TRIP |
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How many times have you asked yourself “I wish I could have seen my room before booking it?” Well, in simple terms, that’s exactly what we do at TVtrip: we help people check-out their room, before they check-in!
How we do it is even simpler.
TVtrip is a search engine for hotels providing unbiased videos to help you make the right choice when booking your hotel. TVtrip displays videos of all hotel facilities including room categories, as well as detailed information on the surrounding area. All of the hotel videos available on the site have been shot by a team of TVtrip professionals.
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| UNITED MOBILE |
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United Mobile is a Mobile Network Operator and provides worldwide mobile communications services with its own network infrastructure. These allow customers to make outgoing calls at worldwide low rates (from 0.40 $ per minute) and receive free incoming calls in over 80 countries. Among these are the EU countries, Australia, Hong Kong, Israel, South Africa or the United Arab Emirates – countries where an incoming call with other operators can cost up to three or four Dollars per minute.
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| WEBLOYALTY |
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Webloyalty.com is a leading online technology-based marketing services company that enables e-commerce, e-travel and e-subscription sites to further monetize online transactions by offering reward, discount and protection programs to their customers. Through a range of innovative services, Webloyalty benefits its more than 140 clients by offering them the potential to increase revenue, site visits and mindshare with customers.
Webloyalty provides more than 2 million memberships to customers of e-commerce sites who benefit from valuable programs and services that match their needs and interests
For example, Reservation Rewards subscribers receive up to 50 percent off top attractions, dining in popular restaurants and hotel stays. Shopper Discounts and Rewards provides subscribers with cash-back rebates and instant discounts at more than 500 online sites.
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| XYKA |
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XYKA (pronounced Zaaika) is a technology solution provider and business process consulting firm for the travel industry. XYKA partners with its customers to solve business problems and bring solutions to market quickly. The XYKA Travel Platform - XYKA’s enterprise product suite for tour operators, travel suppliers and travel agencies is a feature rich product encompassing internet booking engine, Travel 2.0, CRM, call center, site management, negotiated contract and inventory management, GDS and travel supplier interfaces, dynamic and pre-packaged tours, back-office and multi-channel distribution. The Travel Platform supports B2B users as well as consumers.
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| YOU GET IT BACK |
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YouGetItBack.com is a global lost & found service that combines security tagging with modern communications technology, to create a system that makes it easy for people to return lost items to their rightful owners.
YouGetItBack.com have developed solutions for the Travel Industry in Ireland, the UK and the US, for a range of marketing purposes including customer loyalty, data collection, brand awareness and brand positioning.
Based in Cork, Ireland we currently have offices in Dubai, London, Madrid, San Francisco and Sydney.
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| ZONDER |
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Zonder’s highly-scalable inventory management and distribution platform enables consumers to instantly find and reserve vacation homes, cabins, condos and villas across the Caribbean, Central and North America, through a variety of channels. Zonder consolidates thousands of vacation rentals into a searchable database with real-time availability and online booking capabilities. Through an advanced search API, this inventory is made available to consumers through Zonder.com, traditional travel agencies, online travel sellers and aggregators.
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