Biztravel.com Unveils Affiliate Program; Web Site Owners To Earn Commissions For Travel Bookings.

Business/Travel Editors

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2001

Biztravel.com, a Rosenbluth Interactive company, today announced the launch of the Biztravel Affiliate program.

Powered by LinkShare Corporation, a provider of performance marketing technology and services, the Biztravel Affiliate program enables Web site owners to provide access to biztravel's travel booking services directly from their Web sites and receive commissions for completed transactions.

"Today's business community requires travel management that is less sales oriented and more partnership based," said Justin Shaw, vice president and general manager, biztravel.com. "Through the Biztravel Affiliate program, we are able to act as a facilitator, allowing our affiliate partners to offer our superior travel planning technology and outstanding customer service to their Web site visitors. It's a real win-win proposition. The Web site wins by offering services that build user loyalty while receiving a transaction fee, and we win by getting access to new customers who may not be familiar with our unique service and the 2001 Biztravel Guarantee."

Affiliates in the program will earn $2.00 for each air ticket purchased, as well as $1.00 for each hotel reserved in conjunction with an air ticket. Affiliate accounts are credited upon booking rather than trip completion, providing site owners with a faster way to earn commissions.

Affiliates who log more than 10 transactions in a single month will be invited to join the Gold program, through which they will receive increased benefits. Gold program members will be paid commissions of $2.50 per air ticket and $1.25 per hotel room (a 25% increase over standard terms). Affiliates logging more than 50 sales will be invited to join the Platinum program, receiving benefits of $3.00 per air ticket and $1.50 per hotel room (a 50% increase).

Interested parties can sign up for the program by visiting http://misc.biztravel.com/affiliate.htm and completing the application. Once the application is completed, affiliates are sent a confirmation e-mail with links to all the banners and text needed to begin booking travel from their sites.

About biztravel.com

Biztravel.com is the foremost full service travel Web site for business travelers, recognized for its world-class customer service, the revolutionary Biztravel Guarantee, and cutting-edge technological applications. These include FareGuardSM, a patented technology that searches the airlines' systems for lower fares up until the date of departure - allowing biztravel customers to benefit from a price reduction announced by the airlines after they have planned or purchased a trip. Other innovative features on the site include calendar synchronization, automatic upgrading, personalized frequent traveler point tracking, and real time wireless messaging alerts - informing the traveler of timely flight information one hour prior to take-off. Biztravel.com and its personalized reservation process has been lauded by such prestigious publications as PC Computing, PC Magazine and The Peppers & Rogers Group, and also received the Webby Award for the Best Travel Site of the Year. Most recently, Biztravel.com was named one of the top 100 best sites for 2000 by Yahoo! Internet Life, was featured in Forbes Magazine "Best of the Web 2000" sites, and received a CIO 100 award for customer service excellence. Biztravel.com is on the Web at http://www.biztravel.com.