Friday, 27 April 2007
BlueTie has announce a service in partnership with Orbitz that will allow business travellers to search and book travel from their BlueTie e-mail calendars. New York based BlueTie hosts e-mail services for small businesses and states it has 3.5 million subscribers.Orbitz is BlueTie’s exclusive travel planning partner and compensates BlueTie when users make bookings. From their BlueTie e-mail calendars, business travellers will be able to enter keywords and Orbitz will retrieve search results that match the inquiries. BlueTie will have Orbitz’ global access to flights from more than 400 airlines, rooms at more than 65,000 hotels and 13 rental car companies. The e-mail provider then overlays the flight or lodging options within the customers calendars.
Orbitz is BlueTie’s exclusive travel planning partner and compensates BlueTie when users make bookings. BlueTie plans to add a travel booking facility to its site for small and medium sized businesses. In the future, BlueTie plans to also offer dinner reservation and entertainment ticket booking options.
Orbitz is a brand of Travelport, Inc. Orbitz is a leading online travel company offering leisure and business travellers a wide selection of low airfares, as well as deals on lodging, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages and other travel.
