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by advertising sales and sponsorships, the Away Network provides a blend of professionally-edited and
consumer-driven reviews, articles, features and micro-sites. These websites also provide search capabilities for
users who want to find travel choices online as well as contact information for a number of leading tour
operators.
Orbitz for Business
Our OrbitzforBusiness.com website (http://www.orbitzforbusiness.com) offers international corporate
travel services and call center support to a broad array of organizations, ranging from small businesses to
Fortune 500 companies. For individuals and smaller companies, our Orbitz for Business self-managed product
offers savings through lower transaction fees and negotiated business hotel rates. For larger companies with
many travelers, our Orbitz for Business product offers full-service online corporate travel as well as managed
travel program management services.
ebookers
ebookers offers customers the ability to book an array of travel products and services through our U.K.-
based website, ebookers.com (http://www.ebookers.com), as well as through our websites in Austria, Belgium,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
Customers can book travel products and services on a stand-alone basis or as part of a dynamic vacation
package, including airline tickets, hotel rooms, car rentals and travel insurance. In addition to the ebookers
websites, customers may also book travel through our call centers.
HotelClub and RatesToGo
HotelClub.com (http://www.hotelclub.com), Accomline.com (http://www.accomline.com) and
Asia-hotels.com (http://www.asiahotels.com) are hotel-only websites that offer customers the opportunity to
book hotel reservations in over 120 countries. Our RatesToGo.com website (http://www.ratestogo.com) offers
customers the opportunity to book hotel reservations at last-minute discounts up to four weeks in advance. On
this website, customers can book reservations for hotels in over 80 countries. HotelClub, Accomline and
RatesToGo offer services on their websites in fifteen languages, including Simplified Chinese, Traditional
Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish,
Swedish and Thai.
Other Businesses
White Label and Hosting Businesses
We license our technology and business services to third-party partners and offer them access to our
travel content through our white label business. Using our technology platform, these partners are able to
operate websites under their own brands. Our white label business helps power the dynamic package products
available on websites such as Yahoo!»and MSN.com, as well as a number of airline and hotel websites. We
earn revenue from our white label business through revenue sharing arrangements for the travel booked on
these third-party websites.
We also host and manage websites on behalf of third-party partners through our hosting products. We
manage portions of American Airlines’ and Northwest Airlines’ websites. We earn revenue from our hosting
business through license or fee arrangements.
Partner Marketing
Through our partner marketing programs, we generate advertising revenue by providing our partners
direct access to our customer base through a combination of display advertising, performance-based advertis-
ing and other marketing programs. Our advertising partners include travel companies, convention and visitor
bureaus, credit card partners, media, packaged goods and other non-travel advertisers.
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