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Friday November 19, 8:30 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Uniglobe.com Inc.
Uniglobe.com Announces Charter Advertising Partnership with
Excite Canada
Leading Online Travel Retailer to be Featured on Major Canadian Portal in Travel Area
SEATTLE, Nov. 19 /CNW-PRN/ - Online travel leader and cruise specialist Uniglobe.com (VSE: UTO.B - news) today announced an advertising agreement
with Excite Canada, a new Internet portal catering to the Canadian market.
Under terms of the agreement, Excite Canada visitors will have access to the full range of products and services Uniglobe.com provides, including the most
extensive selection of cruise bookings and information on the Web as well as an upgraded Web site with enhanced customer service. Uniglobe.com
(www.uniglobe.com) will be promoted prominently on the Excite Canada site as a travel provider.
Excite.ca is the Canadian version of Excite.com, a leading U.S. portal. It is scheduled to launch in February 2000. It will feature advertising links to the
online travel leader's Web site through Uniglobe.com banner ads. The ads will appear when visitors to Excite.ca search with priority keywords. The deal will
also include Uniglobe.com marquee lines and highlight boxes on the new Web portal.
``This is the first step towards building a partnership with Excite Canada to increase Uniglobe.com's presence in a national market of increasingly Web-
savvy travelers,' said Martin H. Charlwood, President and Chief Executive Officer of Uniglobe.com.
Uniglobe.com has already forged strategic alliances with other Web sites, which have been successful in generating new site traffic and customer bookings.
Uniglobe.com is currently annualizing gross travel bookings at C$90 million compared with C$12 million this time last year.
About Uniglobe.com
Uniglobe.com Inc. provides products and services via the Internet to leisure and business travelers as well as operates an Internet travel fulfillment center for
home-based agents and online companies. Strategic partners include Yahoo!, Expedia.com, Galileo International, Lucent Technologies, Autobytel.com,
Avenue A, GetThere.com and Leisure Planet. Its largest shareholder, Uniglobe Travel (International) Inc., is the world's largest single brand travel franchise
organization with 1,100 locations recording US$2 billion annually in gross travel bookings. Visit the Company's Web site at www.uniglobe.com.
About Excite Canada
Excite Canada (Excite.ca) is a 50/50 partnership between Rogers Media Inc., and Excite Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT Home corporation, doing
business as Excite(at)Home. Excite(at)Home (Nasdaq: ATHM - news) is a global media company based in Redwood City, California. Rogers Media Inc., a
subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc. (TSE:RCI.A and RCI.B, NYSE:RG), is a leader in developing relevant and compelling online content for the
Canadian Internet market. Launching in the first quarter of 2000, Excite.ca, the newest member of the International Excite Network, promises to be Canada's
leading online destination. Excite.ca provides content areas such as travel information, Canadian news, financial information, entertainment and music, plus
advanced search technology, free Web-based email, voicemail, communities and online shopping. Excite Canada users can personalize their Excite.ca start
page and have control over any information they choose like stock portfolios, sports scores, news topics, weather, horoscopes, TV listings and much more.
SOURCE: Uniglobe.com Inc. |
