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SOUTHLAKE, Texas – March 2, 2010 – Travelocity Business(R) today announced an agreement to work with Certify, a provider of online expense management services to small and medium-sized businesses. The growing travel management company will integrate with Certify to deliver a seamless travel and expense solution for its small business clients. Additionally, Certify will offer its clients direct access to Travelocity Business from within the product for quick and easy travel scheduling.

Travelocity Business ranks among the top 10 travel management companies in North America, offering corporations a compelling combination of best-in-class automation and traditional travel management services. Certify’s solutions eliminate the hassles of expense reporting and speed up the reimbursement process by making it easy for Travelocity Business travelers to visually capture receipt information and create reports that can be printed, submitted online or channeled through any expense reporting tool for fast approval and reimbursement.

The Certify Wallet allows travelers to capture expense receipt data through nine separate methods, including the iPhone, Blackberry and other mobile devices. The solution supports more than 130 foreign currencies with real time currency conversion, and also includes support for tracking value added tax (VAT) payments. These tools will allow Travelocity Business to expand the reach of its offering internationally, allowing small to mid-sized businesses around the globe to leverage Travelocity Business’ platform.

“Certify provides our customers with an integrated method for quickly generating an expense report directly from Travelocity Business,” said Blake Goodwin, vice president of product development for Travelocity Business. “By automatically sending the travel expense data into an online expense report, Travelocity Business helps our clients’ travelers better track and manage their expenses, while giving the company greater control and enforcement over travel policy.”

“We are extremely pleased to work with Travelocity Business to provide our expense management tools to their clients and their travel tools to our customers,” said Robert Neveu, founder and president of Certify. “Bringing the benefits of Travelocity Business together with Certify is a winning combination for travelers.”

About Travelocity Business

Southlake, Texas-based Travelocity Business is a full-service corporate travel management company. Travelocity Business is one of the business travel industry’s fastest-growing TMCs, ranking among the top 10 travel management companies in North America. Travelocity Business combines the expertise, service and travel choices of Travelocity(R) with corporate experience gained from serving more than half of the Fortune 200 companies. For more information, companies can visit http://www.travelocitybusiness.com.

About Certify

Certify, LLC, is an online expense management company that provides expense report services to corporations and individuals. The company provides the only SaaS expense management solution for capturing receipts via smart phone, camera phone, SMS message, email, scan, fax and image upload. Founded in 2008, Certify is financed by the founding team and a group of angel investors. Headquartered are located in Portland, Maine. For more information, call 207-773-6100 or visit http://www.Certify.com.

Travelocity Business ranks among the top 15 travel agencies in North America, offering corporations a compelling combination of best-in-class automation and traditional travel management services.  Meetings & Incentives (M&I), a full-service meetings management company, is ranked in the Top 25 by Corporate Meetings & Incentives and is responsible for more than $40 million in spend and more than 500 events annually. 

M&I’s collection of primary services, now available to all Travelocity Business clients, includes:

• Strategic meetings management;
• Domestic and international sourcing, with services in Latin America and Europe;
• Planning and registration;
• On-site services and production; and
• Event marketing.

M&I also provides detailed reporting designed to ensure that customers’ cost-avoidance, audit compliance, savings and event goals are exceeded.

“Corporations are increasingly aggressive about looking into their meeting management spend, with managers under the gun to deliver measured value and savings from this historically unmanaged spend category,” said Tina Madden, chief financial officer for M&I. “Travelocity Business and its clients, with their proven appetite for automated solutions, represent an ideal fit for our cost-effective solutions.  We look forward to collaborating with Travelocity Business’ clients and account managers to streamline and optimize meetings programs.”

“M&I shares our passion for delivering top-notch customer service via creative technologies and established expertise,” said Blake Goodwin, vice president of product development and marketing for Travelocity Business.  “Together we will deliver a comprehensive, turn-key solution to help customers effectively manage spend across the transient and group categories.” 

About Travelocity Business

Southlake, Texas-based Travelocity Business is a full-service corporate travel management company. Travelocity Business is one of the business travel industry’s fastest-growing TMCs, ranking among the top 15 agencies in North America. Travelocity Business combines the expertise, service and travel choices of Travelocity(R) with corporate experience gained from serving more than half of the Fortune 200 companies. For more information, companies can visit http:/www.travelocitybusiness.com.

About Meetings & Incentives

Meetings and Incentives is dedicated to the business of meetings and events. As a full service Meeting Management Company, we are focused entirely on the needs of our clients. Our primary service options include: SMMP, Sourcing, Registration / Event Marketing, Group Air, Planning, On-Site Services, Incentives and eMeetings. Every department, from venue sourcing through on-site operations, is comprised of dedicated, seasoned professionals with in-depth experience servicing all industries and types of meetings and events. Experts specializing in industry segments, such as our pharmaceutical and manufacturing teams, are able to address more unique industry-related requirements.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – August 25, 2009 – Travelocity Business(R)’ consulting team, established in 2006 to help corporate programs gain maximum value from supplier relationships, achieved a milestone this year by cumulatively saving nearly $100 million for its ten participating clients. Deploying proprietary techniques and leveraging Sabre Travel Network(R) and GetThere(R) resources, TBiz anticipates even greater savings in the next year as best practices are refined and the agency takes advantage of Sabre’s new Contract Optimization Services to build its Airline Contract Management Tool.

Travelocity Business, a full-service corporate travel management company, offers multi-national companies a compelling combination of best-in-class automation with a complete array of traditional travel management services. Members of the TBiz consulting team are demonstrating the capabilities of the new Airline Contract Management Tool at booth number 427 at this week’s National Business Travel Association Conference & Exhibition in San Diego.

Travelocity Business’ Consulting Services is particularly effective at driving meaningful savings for corporations that seize automation’s advantages in the booking process. With the analytical reporting as a foundation, TBiz’s veteran consulting team can guide programs to savings via:

• Improved use of messaging to arrangers and travelers at the point-of-sale;
• Integration of point of-sale-preferencing both in the online and telephonic booking process via proprietary TBiz technologies;
• Isolating of preferred suppliers;
• Ordering of preferred suppliers on screen displays; and
• Educational programs for road warriors, etc.

In each case, the mix of online and offline tactics fit neatly with the company’s strategic travel program goals and corporate culture. TBiz’ existing stable of air consulting clients recorded a net effective discount of 17.8 percent over the past year, saving millions on both domestic and international travel.

“CFOs at companies big and small are putting unprecedented pressure on travel procurement staff to get the most out of every travel dollar,” said DeAnne Dale, vice president of sales and consulting services for Travelocity Business. “Our analytical processes have delivered measureable savings for clients with less than two million in air spend to larger corporations on the BTN 100 list. In each case, companies are traveling smarter, maximizing preferred supplier relationships on a market-by-market basis, and tracking their spend to ensure access to quality data for the next round of supplier negotiations.”

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