The new travel service powered by Insites, the fastest growing travel network in the Middle East, will enable arabia.com users to view various travel opportunities, choose their favorite holiday packages with the lowest fare available on the Internet and deal directly with travel agents. Moreover, users can make all relevant payments online through Insites' secure electronic transactions arrangements.
"This agreement brings together Insites' large travel suppliers and 10,000 hotel properties database with arabia's wide database of users and regional reach," said Najeeb Al Bassam, General Manager of Insites. "We seek through our partnership with arabia.com to revolutionize the Arab travel industry by using the Internet to the maximum and provide more online choices and traveling facilities to Arab users."
By simply logging in to www.arabia.insitesonline.com or visiting the 'Travel Corner' at arabia.com, users will be able to plan their holidays and accomplish all travel-related procedures and payments without moving from their PCs. The value added features Insites has made available through this site are its multiple and complex itineraries, including non-air bookings along with easy to use self-booking tools. It offers the best deals in hotels, car rental, tours and discounted packages as well as detailed Destination Guides.
"Adding a travel service powered by Insites with its large industry database to our multi-channel/service portal again confirms the strong position of arabia.com as the Arab World users' favorite destination," said Ramzi Zeine, Chief Executive Office of arabia.com. "Our portal now combines a diversified range of channels and services that meet the expectation of our target audience. Maintaining an excellent level of service and constantly introducing new services is key to maintaining our leadership in the region."
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arabia.com & Insites partner to offer full-fledged travel service to internet users
- United Arab Emirates: Saturday, March 09 - 2002 at 09:46
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Users in the Arab World will continue to enjoy new services being introduced by arabia.com, and this time it is a unique travel service which was announced last Wednesday.
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About InsitesInsites is a product launched by SIMA International, one of the leaders of the Middle East Internet Industry. SIMA also owns and operates GoDubai.com, Dubai's first Community website with over 80,000 registered members.
Anticipating the requirements of travel professionals in today's Internet era and tapping into the $27 billion worth GCC travel industry, SIMA launched its path-breaking Travel Management Product, INSITES, in September 2001.
Insites is a travel portal for travel professionals. It is the first such portal in the Middle East, offering complete Travel Management solutions with both B2B and B2C features. It brings together Travel Agents, Travel Suppliers and the Traveler (Corporate/Individual) on a single e-commerce enabled platform.
Insites sources travel products across the world; it handles price negotiations, addresses customer queries and handles fulfillment for customers on arabia.com's travel channel. The Insites model is a time saving, cost efficient tool which can turn around the way business is conducted in the travel industry. Insites is thus a unique travel platform as it combines the resources of travel professionals (over 250 travel agents) with that of Internet experts, in a secure E-commerce environment.
About arabia.com
arabia.com was the first portal to be launched in the Arab world in 1995. With its headquarters in Dubai Internet City, UAE the company offers services targeted at the Arab world and the broader international community interested in the Arab world. arabia.com employs more than 75 people in its two offices in Dubai Internet City and in Amman, Jordan.
The arabia.com portal combines communities, news, communication and search services and is recognized as the leading Arab world Internet site. arabia.com's extensive bilingual Arabic and English services and strategic content and distribution partnerships strongly differentiate it from other local or international Internet services catering to the Arab world.
arabia.com is owned by Arabia Online, the Internet centric technology group.
Issued on behalf of arabia.com by Gulf Hill & Knowlton. For further information, please contact Osama A. Osman at Tel: (9714) 3344930, Fax: (9714) 3344923
Posted by Anne-Birte Stensgaard, News EditorSaturday, March 09 - 2002 at 09:46 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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This article was updated on Mon Sep 18 2006.
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