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Stop Hoarding on your Home Page

Your home page is one ofΒ the most important pages on your website.Β  It is the great entryway to your business, the identity of your brand, andΒ the most compelling sales pitch to your customer.Β  Or at least it should be. Since the home page is valued so highly, it also tends to be the page that [...]

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Enhanced Search Results for AgentPort

In our ongoing effort to respond to agent requests and needs, we have expanded and upgraded the search and results display pages in AgentPort. We have expanded the search filter, added a date/calendar feature and are presenting the search results in a much more “agent friendly” manner. Here are a few of the changes to [...]

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Viking River Cruise Supplier Highlight Page

Take a look at the updated Viking River Cruise Supplier Highlight page!Β  The new highlight page is featuring 2-for-1 River Cruise fares to popular destinations like Europe, China, and Egypt. If you already subscribe to our Supplier Highlight Pages, this content has been updated for you automatically.Β  If not…

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Team Building at Old Market Pub

Typical reactions from the words “Team Building Event” usually include forced smiles, reluctant acceptance, and pressure to share your feelings.Β  Not with Passport Online.Β  We know that the true path of bonding starts with micro brews and pizza, then leads to some healthy competition in pool and shuffleboard.

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Canadian Exclusive Offer Groups

Good news for our Canadian NexCite and VacationPort users! We have been working hard to expand our selection of Canadian suppliers to offer our northerly neighbors equally compelling content. We are pleased to announce that we have created two new Global Offer Groups dedicated to cruises with Canadian pricing. Celebrity Exciting Deals Canada Royal Caribbean [...]

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Some Comments On Travel Professionals

We’re always curious to see what people (mainly consumers) were saying about travel professionals in the social and media world.

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2010: The Year Of The Travel Professional

We are all very excited about 2010. Yes, there have been myriad challenges in the industry. There have also been more changes than most of us can remember. Consumers are more confused than ever, and it appears that for more complex travel, the bloom is off the OTA rose. But as the professionals in this [...]

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The Value Of Travel

My wife, Kris, and I just returned from a two week vacation in Western Europe. I will get into the specifics of the trip in a later blog, however I wanted to spend a few minutes reflecting on the impressions that this trip, and others, have had on us. We often travel for just fun [...]

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Start your Blog with what you know β€” TRAVEL!

I recently gave a seminar at the Vacation.com conference on using the various types of social networks to drive business to your web site. Lots of folks were talking Socail Networking at the conference and they were doing live Twitter feeds every day. Now I don’t pretend to know a great deal about Facebook, Twitter [...]

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Travel is Hot Hot Hot

What a fun month June was for Passport Online. Not only did we get to see so many of you at the Vacation.com workshops, we also saw record sales for our NexCite and VacationPort products and we are looking forward to the month of July. We spoke with a lot of agencies last month and [...]

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