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GO.com's Internet Travel Business Teams with The Mark Travel Corporation to Offer Premiere Vacation Packages.


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NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2000

GO.com (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
:GO), the Internet business of The Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966)
Disney, Walter Elias Disney
 Company, announced today that it has teamed up with The Mark Travel Corporation, a leader in leisure travel services, to provide vacation packages for GO.com's Internet travel businesses. This development further strengthens GO.com's strategy for the Internet travel segments of the business, to provide quality vacation offerings to a variety of travelers. Various types of unique vacation packages will be offered and created to meet the individual needs of vacationers. Together GO.com and The Mark Travel Corporation will provide flexible land-only, air-only, and air-inclusive vacation packages with value-added option like car rentals, tours and attraction tickets.

"We look forward to continue working and developing relationships with established travel leaders like The Mark Travel Corporation, that have the necessary experience and channels to provide superior vacation offerings," said Mark Koehler, vice president, Internet travel for GO.com. "We believe this is a critical step in our efforts to reinforce and expand GO.com's leadership and capabilities in the online travel business."

"We are honored to be selected by GO.com to provide private-label vacation offerings for their Internet travel businesses," said Tom Meier, executive vice president of The Mark Travel Corporation. "By combining the strengths of our companies, customers will receive a high quality product delivered through an efficient distribution channel. We look forward to partnering with Go.com and expanding our e-commerce options."

GO.com's Internet travel business currently includes all of the Disney travel businesses online and the travel section of the GO.com portal. The portal now offers an array of information and links to booking air, car, hotel, vacations, and finding travel bargains. In addition, guests can log onto message boards and travel-related chat rooms. Recently, GO.com's, Disneyland.com announced a new and enhanced site, where guests or their travel agents can book vacations packages to the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region,  destination online.

The Mark Travel Corporation, one of the largest vacation companies in the United States, is headquartered in Milwaukee. Founded in 1974, the company employs more than 2,800 individuals in 18 offices worldwide. It has been a member of the United States Tour Operator Association's $1 Million Consumer Protection Plan since 1978, and all of its companies are members of the American Society of Travel Agents ASTA, short for the American Society of Travel Agents, claims over 20,000 members in 140 countries. Its members include travel agents and companies who offer travel products, such as tours, cruises, hotels, car rentals, etc. .

About The Mark Travel Corporation

The Mark Travel Corporation owns or operates the following vacation brands: AeroMexico Vacations, Blue Sky Tours, Funjet Vacations, Funjet Vacations Pleasure Break, Mirage Resorts Vacations, Mountain Vacations, Southwest Airlines Vacations, Starwood Vacations, United Vacations, US Airways Vacations and Vacations by Sun Country.

About GO.com

GO.com (NYSE:GO) is the Internet business of The Walt Disney Company. GO.com manages some of the Internet's most popular Web sites, including the GO.com portal, ABC ABC
 in full American Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928.
.com, ABCNEWS.com, ABCSports.com, Disney.com, Disneystore.com, DisneyTravel.com, Family.com, ESPN.com, ESPNstore.com, EXPN EXPN Expand .com, Mr. Showbiz, NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla.  Online, NBA NBA
abbr.
1. National Basketball Association

2. National Boxing Association

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.com and NFL NFL
abbr.
National Football League

NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga
.com. Steven M. Bornstein is the chairman of GO.com, which is headquartered in North Hollywood, Calif., with operations in Sunnyvale, Calif., Seattle, New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, and London.
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