Travelocity

Travelocity was one of the pioneering companies allowing consumers to buy their airline tickets via the Internet instead of directly through the airline or via a travel agent.

In 1996, Travelocity was created by Sabre Holdings, a company "retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry." By allowing customers to utilize this system, customers were given full transparency into the schedules and fares travel agents and others had been seeing for decades.

One of Travelocity's lasting images was its marketing campaign in 2004 featuring a traveler looking for his garden gnome. The gnome, now known as "The Roaming Gnome: Denouncer of Travel Myths" still exists on their site, promoting Travelocity's "Customer Bill of Rights."

Travelocity also offers consumers business travel and "last minute trip" sites. Travelocity is located in Southlake, Texas, a suburb of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

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• How does Travelocity determine what makes a ‘green’ hotel?

  
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  How does Travelocity , one of the most popular online travel sites around, decipher which hotels are “green” and, if so, just how green? Turns out, it doesn’t. Instead, the web-giant has teamed up with Green Key Global, creators of the Green Key Eco-Rating Program (’Green Key’), to recognize and rate ...
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• Perspective Magazine’s Timeshare & Fractional Twitter Updates for 2009-12-17

  
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• Travelocity Discount Code

  
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• Travelocity Recognizes Green Key Global Membership in Green Hotel Directory

  
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  Green Key Global, the exclusive provider of the Green Key Eco-Rating Program (” Green Key ”), and Travelocity have partnered to recognize “green” hotels and resorts. Travelocity , the popular online travel website, will include Green Key members in its Green Hotel Directory; likewise, those hotels ...
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• Travelocity’s Green Hotel Directory Highlights Earth-Friendly Properties

  
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  Travelocity is getting serious about sustainable travel.  Besides offering free carbon offsets for the 2009 holiday season, the online travel agency also provides a convenient and simple Green Hotel Directory as part of its Travel for Good Program.Alison Presley, manager of  Travelocity’s Travel for Good Program, ...
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• Orbitz.com launches (another) agency review and hires (another) new marketing exec

  
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• Nice “savings”: Travelocity package FAIL

  
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• $100 off on 3-night hotel booking

  
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• Travelocity Uses Facebook to Promote Travel Carbon Offsetting

  
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• Travelocity Offers Free Carbon Offsets for the Holidays

  
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• Zagat Survey Says More People Booking Flights Directly

  
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• Keep up on Thanksgiving airport traffic with Travelocitys Task Force

  
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  Filed under: Transportation , Internet Tools , Travel Deals Nobody is looking forward to venturing into battle tomorrow. Wednesday is the years biggest travel day, a congested, high stress day when airports are packed, tempers are high and any small hiccup can make an entire airport turn upside down. We all ...
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• Newly Enhanced Orbitz Lowest Price $50 Guarantee

  
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• Winged Victory of Inmyface

  
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• $25 off New York Hotels with coupon code

  
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