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To: Cheeseburger who started this subject7/14/2000 11:54:50 AM
From: ROY SENDELE  Read Replies (2) of 60
 
Travel site's final answer: We're
getting Regis
By Troy Wolverton
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
July 12, 2000, 5:00 p.m. PT

Who wants to be affiliated with a dot-com? Regis Philbin does.

ByeByeNow.com will announce Monday that the host of ABC's "Who Wants to be a
Millionaire?" will become a virtual host on the travel site. Philbin will welcome guests and give
virtual tours via streaming video clips interspersed throughout the company's Web pages.

Philbin is just the latest celebrity to link up with an online
company. William Shatner and Avery Brooks of "Star Trek" are
spokesmen for Priceline.com and IBM, respectively. Sports greats
John Elway, Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky serve on the
board of online sporting goods retailer MVP.com.

Launched last year, Pompano Beach, Fla.-based ByeByeNow
connects customers with offline travel agents. Customers can
either call a toll-free number or talk to agents on the Internet via an
online chat.

ByeByeNow focuses on packages such as cruises, ski trips and
golf vacations. These types of packages are typically more
profitable than sales of airline tickets or hotel rooms, which make
up the bulk of sales for online travel leaders Expedia and
Travelocity.
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