To: TLindt who wrote (2 ) 1/22/1998 11:11:00 AM From: chirodoc Respond to of 4761
ITN Facts........here is the link....could not cut and paste it--don't know why....hard to find out stock info about this company......recent ipo--check out this link. URL: itn.net Overview: Internet Travel Network (ITN) provides complete travel reservation capabilities to corporate and leisure travelers via the Internet. ITN connects to the major travel reservation systems for free up-to-date travel information, including real-time flight availability, vacation tours, hotel and car rental information for worldwide destinations, 24 hours a day and seven days a week. ITN is the only unbiased travel technology company offering online travel solutions for the corporate travel manager, the travel agency, and the independent traveler. Members: More than 3 million registered users and 3,000 member travel agencies; rapidly expanding corporate client base. C.E.O.: Ken Swanton Headquarters: Palo Alto, California Tel: (650) 614-6300 Fax: (650) 614-6390 E-mail: redcarpet@itn.net Established: 1995 Ownership: Private Funding: $10.7 million in private financing from venture partners The Contrarian Group, Brentwood Venture Capital, Norwest Venture Capital, Bayview Investors, Ltd. of Robertson Stephens & Company, US Venture Partners, and Charter Ventures. Products/Services: PUBLIC WEB SITE ITN's public site on the World Wide Web (http://www.itn.net) enables registered users to book real-time air, car, hotel and vacation tour reservations. Registration on ITN's public web site is fast and free, as are all services on www.itn.net. INTERNET TRAVEL MANAGER ITN's corporate service offers full-service booking and corporate travel management functionality via the Internet or corporate Intranets. Internet Travel Manager meets the specific needs of corporate travel departments with customized functionality to display preferred suppliers and negotiated rates via an easy-to-use booking product for employees, and supports its technology with the best client service in the business. ITN's expanding corporate client base includes the World Bank, Texas Instruments, VeriFone and more. PRIVATE LABEL services deploy ITN technology to create fully branded and customized reservation systems for corporations and travel agencies. This service enables the organization to "private label" the ITN booking interface under the organization's own WWW site, with their own custom look and feel. Private Labels provide a unique Internet address with the travel reservations functionality of ITN's public site, plus many additional features. PARTNER SITE PROGRAM Similar to ITN's Private Label service, ITN's Partner Site Program enables corporations, organizations, travel-related companies and others with established WWW sites to offer the added value of online travel reservations to their visitors at little cost. TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY ITN technology, featuring its pioneering booking engine, runs the travel reservations function for dozens of major travel web sites. In this way, ITN is to the online travel industry what Intel is to the personal computer industry - the technology behind the product. Sales/ Support: ITN markets its Private Label, Partner Site and Internet Travel Manager services directly and oversees site development from its Palo Alto, Dallas, Portland, Chicago and New York sales offices. Member agencies join the public network by signing on to the public site. Travel Agencies or companies wishing to add booking capabilities to their web site can contact ITN via email: power@itn.net.