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BCD Travel, TripIt Team Up to Bring Consumer Convenience to Corporate Travel

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ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwire - August 18, 2009) - With an eye on helping business travelers
manage life on the road, BCD Travel today announced it would soon offer
clients an integrated set of services from TripIt, an online itinerary
platform widely hailed by road warriors for its ability to help them easily
organize and share travel plans with colleagues, assistants and family.

Under the agreement, BCD Travel, the world's third-largest travel
management company, will offer corporate clients TripIt-powered services
that meet the evolving needs of travelers and the business goals of travel
programs. TripIt allows travelers to share itineraries online with anyone
in their professional or social networks. TripIt enables corporate travel
managers to meet traveler-satisfaction objectives while squeezing more
value out of travel spend. BCD Travel plans to begin offering TripIt
services in early 2010.

"TripIt has been rapidly adopted by business travelers at small, medium and
large companies alike, including travelers from all of the 100 top
traveling corporations," said Scott Hintz, co-founder and vice president of
business development for TripIt. "With this move, BCD Travel is the first
TMC to truly embrace the power of openness to satisfy the needs of their
business travelers, within the context of a company's managed travel
program."

As part of the BCD Travel-TripIt offering, BCD Travel will transfer a
traveler's booking to TripIt, which delivers a master itinerary to the
traveler's personal TripIt account. Travelers access the itinerary online,
via mobile device or through professional networking sites. What they see
is a rich itinerary packed with weather forecasts, maps, directions and
other important details related to the trip.

In addition, travelers can use TripIt's "Itinerator" to combine information
about restaurants, event tickets and even personal travel -- elements
typically not booked by a travel agency. The traveler integrates this
information simply by forwarding confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com.

TripIt travelers, like users of the popular iPhone from Apple, have access
to a growing and evolving ecosystem of applications developed by third
parties. Using these apps, BCD Travel clients and travelers will be able to
meet a variety of business needs using mobile utilities, expense solutions,
corporate social networks and more.

As part of the agreement, BCD Travel will provide its clients with
preferred access to TripIt Pro, a new premium service for frequent
travelers. TripIt Pro offers itinerary monitoring with mobile alerts,
alternate flight options, frequent-traveler point tracking and other tools
aimed at road warriors.

"Because our travelers are living increasingly mobile and socially
networked lifestyles, we're building ways to harmonize those needs within a
corporate travel program," said April Bridgeman, BCD Travel's senior vice
president of strategic marketing and technology planning. "TripIt fits
perfectly within our vision for providing the best post-booking traveler
experience available and embracing practical social features that add value
to clients and travelers. This is an important first step in our journey to
offer our clients the best resources to enhance the traveler experience."

About BCD Travel

As a leading provider of global corporate travel management, BCD Travel
simplifies and streamlines the business of travel. This benefits our
client's organization on every level: from the bottom-line to the business
traveler. BCD Travel operates in more than 90 countries on six continents,
with US$14 billion in total sales and a combined worldwide work force in
excess of 13,000. BCD Travel is a BCD Holdings N.V. company. For more
information, visit www.bcdtravel.com.

About TripIt

TripIt, the trip management company, helps people organize their travel
plans no matter where they book. Travelers simply forward their travel
confirmation emails from over 500 sites to plans@tripit.com. TripIt
automatically creates a master itinerary that combines all their travel
plans plus weather, maps, restaurants and more. With TripIt it's easy to
share and collaborate on trips with friends and colleagues in social
networks. TripIt itineraries can be accessed via online, mobile device,
iPhone app, personal calendars and social networking sites. TripIt is an
open itinerary platform that works across hundreds of travel sites and with
a growing ecosystem of travel and mobile partners. The new TripIt Pro
premium service for frequent travelers automatically monitors travel
itineraries, providing mobile alerts, alternate flight options, frequent
traveler point tracking and automated trip sharing. More at www.tripit.com.

 

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