Ramsey, NJ – (June 21, 2010) GOGO Worldwide Vacations, the leading wholesaler of value and amenity-packed vacation packages, exclusively serving travel agencies since 1951 is pleased to announce it has partnered with Passport Online.  This partnership will put GOGO’s extensive product line on the websites of Passport Onlines participating travel agent and consortia member subscribers.   

“GOGO’s only customer is the retail travel agent, and in the past few years we have really focused on innovative marketing programs to drive leads, and our partnership with Passport Online will certainly help us accomplish that”, said Michele Kish, President of GOGO.  “Displaying our extensive product and competitive pricing in front of millions of consumers on travel agent websites every month is sure to drive inquiries to agents who participate in Passport Online’s marketing solutions”, added Kish. 

“We are thrilled to now include the GOGO Worldwide Vacations portfolio of consumer product offerings for our vast travel agency network. Now our agency and consortia clients who work with GOGO can feature GOGO’s products and promotions on their consumer website, within emails and even in their Social Media and search engine marketing efforts,” said Randy Goodrich, Senior Vice President and co-founder of Passport Online. “Our agency clients are getting more aggressive in the area of online marketing, using our programs and with our new Social Media support. We fully expect many will feature GOGO in their blogs, Facebook messages and Tweets, as well as their website and email marketing.”

About GOGO:
Established in 1951, GOGO Worldwide Vacations is a leading wholesaler of value and amenity-packed vacation packages with more than 40 local sales offices, exclusively serving the United States travel agent community.  GOGO offers its 18,000+ travel agent customer’s competitive commissions, comprehensive marketing programs, co-op advertising opportunities and annual learning conferences.  Following its acquisition by Flight Centre Limited in January 2008, GOGO has significantly enhanced the depth and breadth of its product and destination offerings.  www.gogowwv.com 

About Passport Online Inc.
Passport Online Inc. is the emarketing and ecommerce solution provider for the leisure travel industry. Passport Online’s reach via travel agent extranets and travel agency consumer websites includes over 20,000 travel agents and over 4,000 unique consumer-facing travel agency websites. Passport also manages and executes email marketing for travel agencies, reaching an additional 7,500 participating travel agencies, and over 3 million travelers.

Because you have the control, in most cases, to turn on or off a supplier, we want to keep you in the know as we expand our portfolio of supplier options. Below is our most recent list. Review it and then go into your Site Administration tool and set them as an Included, Preferred, Highly Preferred or Excluded supplier. You can also build a Target Search or Offer Group to display the supplier’s products on any web page.

New suppliers for June:

• Gogo Worldwide Vacations (weekly specials now/full content by August)
  Wholesale packages Worldwide
• Blue Sky Tours (full content by August)
  Hawaii packages

Recently added suppliers:

• Adventures Abroad
  Worldwide tours and Soft Adventure tours for small groups
• Amtrak Vacations
  Packages to major Amtrak destinations in USA and Canada
• Companies du Ponant
  Small yacht and ship cruising
• GAP Adventures
  Adventure focused vacations
• Lindblad Expeditions
  Adventure, upscale cruising
• Ski.com
  Ski packages Worldwide
• Voyages to Antiquity
  Mediterranean cruises focused on history
• Yankee Holidays
  City packages in USA and Canada

New hotel and resort properties have also been added to our ResortPort program. You will see these in the Search Results for destinations where there is a ResortPort property. This is a very powerful new program for leisure agents and leisure focused properties. From your customer’s perspective, rich media content is available on your website, enhancing their vacation shopping experience. For our participating resorts, they now have the ability to control their property’s rich media presentation on your websites and also have this presentation automatically integrate with any wholesaler promotions available through your website.

If you have a supplier or resort that you believe could benefit from working with Passport Online, please have them contact Randy Goodrich, SVP, at 503-270-5853 or randyg@passportonlineinc.com