Travel Messenger(TM) Creates Powerful New Bond With Travelers and Their Agents -...

Travel Messenger(TM) Creates Powerful New Bond With Travelers and Their Agents
- Covering 200 Countries Around the Globe

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Travel Messenger(TM), the
latest breakthrough in travel information technology designed to build
powerful bonds between travelers and their on and off-line travel agents
domestically and around the world, is being launched at the AlwaysOn & STVP
Summit at Stanford, CA [July 22 - 24, 2008].
The company, Loop9, is headed by leading travel evangelists including
Steve Hibbard, Former CEO Lonely Planet and, Michael Baldwin, former VP Sabre
Holdings.
The patent pending technology, which covers 200 countries and 3000 cities
around the globe, enables travel agents to automatically provide
up-to-the-minute personalized services delivered to customers' mobile phones
via proven SMS technology.
Mark McCormack, CEO of Loop9 said agents and airlines now have an
opportunity to enhance their current offerings and develop an unprecedented
level of client loyalty in the competitive and price sensitive travel space.
Loop9's Travel Messenger(TM) keeps travelers informed every step of the
way by providing regularly updated personal travel information by SMS/Text.
"Flight times, departure gates, hotel reservations, exchange rates,
weather and even travel warnings are all constantly updated by SMS. The
traveler just needs to check their text messages to see where they are going
next and the information they need to get there," said McCormack.
"For the sake of getting to a meeting on time to close a deal, or simply
to keep your valued staff feeling valued on the road Travel Messenger(TM),
will pay for itself on the first SMS."
Gap year students and young travelers, through to mature and seasoned
travelers can also all benefit from services like 24/7 country security
alerts, delay advisories, and even translation and entertainment advice at the
tap of a phone.
McCormack says Travel Messenger was an ideal solution for corporate
business travel units, providing a simple and easily deployed travel
information service that could be used throughout a company to keep road
warriors in touch and most importantly safe.
"Travel Messenger -- Don't take off without it" (TM)
Loop9 is presenting at the AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford as part of
the BSI USA program [http://www.bsiamericas.com].
For more information contact your local travel agent.

http://www.loop9.com

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