WORLDCHOICETRAVEL.COM FORMS INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE WITH
LEADING ONLINE UK TRAVEL COMPANY, NAMES NEW FORTUNE 500 CEO
Contact: Mark Hopkinson 561/ 750-9800 x14
Email: mhopkinson@TransMediagroup.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NORTH PALM BEACH, FL., APRIL 7, 2000 - WorldChoiceTravel.com
- the providers of private-labeled online travel reservation services
for Internet web sites in the US, announced today it has formed
an alliance with a leading online travel company in the UK, further
extending World Choices Global, its business-to-business Internet
affiliate program to the European market. The announcement follows
the appointment this week of William Snyder as the new Chief Executive
Officer of WorldChoiceTravel.com, Inc.
Snyder, a former CEO of two successful Fortune 500
companies, said the alliance with TelMe.com broadens WorldChoiceTravel.com's
European affiliate private-label program. "TelMe.com will provide
our European Internet affiliates with a private-labeled airline
reservation Internet engine and customer service support for our
state-of-the-art online hotel booking services," Snyder said.
"This is an exciting opportunity to gain new market share. By
combining our online hotel booking Internet engine which provides
instant access to the more than 35,000 hotels in 170 countries
with the TelMe Global Traveler online airline engine, we can now
offer a suite of services targeted to travelers using the Internet
on two continents. World Choices Global will deliver greater online
value to the web sites of our affiliates, who can add new revenue
to their bottom line while clearly retaining their own web site
identity," he added.
A member of the Board of Directors of World Choice
Travel since 1999, Snyder was president and chief executive officer
of American Olean Tile Company, a division of a National Gypsum
Company, from 1984 to 1992. He led the company to earning consistently
strong revenues and profitability, culminating in a highly profitable
sale to Armstrong World Industries in 1989.
From 1992 to 1997, Snyder was president and chief
executive officer of Rinker Materials, a division of CSR America,
a $1.5 billion Australian conglomerate and one of the nation's
largest producers of construction materials. Most recently, Snyder
was president of the distribution division, executive vice president
and a member of the Board of Directors of CSR America.
A resident of Tequesta, FL, Snyder chairs the Advisory
Board of the Palm Beach Atlantic School of Business. He earned
a bachelor's in business management from the Pennsylvania State
University in 1957 and an MBA from the University of Chicago in
1964.
WorldChoiceTravel.com Inc., operates the consumer
website USAHotelGuide.com which is rated # 1 by the E-commerce
authority, Gomez.com, as the easiest to use online hotel reservation
and travel website in the world. It also operates The Florida
Hotels and Discount Guide at www.flhotels.com
. Incorporated in 1983, it is one of the largest online hotel
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