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GALILEO INTERNATIONAL TEAMS WITH VIATOR TO EXPAND CONTENT AND OFFERINGS OF GALILEO e-AGENT™

Travel News Asia Date: 14 March 2001

Bookable Global Destination Activities Delivered Via Viewpoint™ Portal

Galileo International, Inc. (NYSE: GLC), a leading provider of electronic global distribution services for the travel industry, and Viator, Inc., a global provider of destination products and information, today announced an agreement that expands the service offerings and content of the Galileo e-Agent™ Internet portal. The agreement establishes a direct channel to Galileo’s network of travel agencies to market the inventory of the thousands of tour operators and recreation suppliers from around the world contained in Viator’s extensive database.

Viator is the latest addition to the Galileo e-Agent Internet suite of service offerings. Galileo e-Agent is the exclusive Web-based infrastructure for travel agents that integrates Internet travel-related information and content for convenient and efficient bookings on the Viewpoint™ platform. Through Viator, travel agents now will have direct access to destination activities ranging from sightseeing tours to local events and attractions in more than 25 countries within Europe, Asia Pacific and North America.

“Traditionally, researching and booking destination activities has been a time-consuming process for many travel agents,” said Galileo’s Terry Vaughn, director, Leisure and Rail Sales and Marketing. “With Galileo e-Agent and Viator’s content, travel agents can offer a value-added, commission-based service at the same time as providing a world of options to their customers.”

A sampling of Viator’s products and services available through the point-and-click environment of Galileo e-Agent include Broadway theatre tickets, Paris and London day tours, cruises on Sydney Harbor, scuba tours in Fiji, and bear-watching tours in Canada. Viator bookings through Galileo e-Agent will soon be viewable as part of the primary traveler’s Viewpoint itinerary along with air, hotel and other bookings, providing travel agents with a single source of information.

“Viator’s technology enables travel content from an assortment of global vendors to be aggregated into an efficient and useful database,” said Viator’s Rod Cuthbert, president and CEO. “By our joint marketing agreement with Galileo, we are placing destination content, via the Galileo e-Agent portal, into the hands of the most important people in the travel equation – travel agents.”

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