“National Plan a Vacation Week” online BtoBtoC expo “booths” filling fast

MILWAUKEE, WI – Feb. 1, 2011 – As VAX VacationAccess gears up for its first-ever virtual vacation expo, it is pleased to announce it has secured travel suppliers for nearly half of its available “booths.”

“National Plan a Vacation Week: A Travel Agent-Powered Extravaganza” will take place March 15-21, 2011. Supplier slots are filling fast, with the most availability for Pacific destinations to participate in the event. For more information, visit www.VAXVacationAccess.com/VacationWeek.

National Plan a Vacation Week, a registered national event, is a one-of-a-kind virtual expo that brings amazing supplier offers and rich media, as well as consumer marketing tools to travel agents. The program then brings travel agents sales leads through a consumer website that promotes the value of travel agents and encourages consumers to “shop” and engage with participating travel agents through their micro-websites. Quality travel suppliers fill “booths” in the following six categories:

• Tropical Adventures
• Fun for Families
• Occasions for Amazement
• Viva Mexico
• Pacific Paradises
• American Discoveries

Participating travel suppliers have the opportunity to expose VAX VacationAccess’ community of over 100,000 travel agents to their products through photos, videos and Plan a Vacation Week offers. The photos and videos are delivered to consumers via travel agent micro-sites and marketing, and the offers are made available to travel agents through VAX’s Vacation Week “Agent Resource Center.” Travel agents consult with potential customers and deliver the offers exclusively through VAX.

“National Plan a Vacation Week is a great opportunity for SuperClubs to not only make travel agents aware of our Super-Inclusive® resorts, but also give them the rich media and offers they need to close sales,” said Zein Issa, vice president of marketing for SuperClubs Resorts & Spas. “The icing on the cake is that those travel agents are brought customer leads through the Vacation Week program. VAX VacationAccess is giving us something no other selling platform has – a way to both identify and equip qualified agents with our messages, as well as bring them potential customers!”

VAX VacationAccess is the largest online selling platform for leisure travel agents and gives vacation suppliers a variety of ways to reach qualified travel agents. VAX develops innovative technology to help travel agents and agencies become more productive and profitable business people.

SuperClubs is the parent company of a collection of Super-Inclusive resorts, including Breezes Resorts & Spas and Hedonism Resorts. SuperClubs is participating in the “Tropical Adventures” and “Occasions for Amazement” Vacation Week themes.

Suppliers interested in being a part of National Plan a Vacation Week should contact Beck Capper at VAX VacationAccess, 414-934-1289 or bcapper@vaxvacationaccess.com, or visit www.VAXVacationAccess.com/VacationWeek.

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VAX VacationAccess Worldwide brings together leisure travel professionals, suppliers and destinations in one easy-to-use online platform. Powerful booking engines for vacation packages, hotels, cruise vacations and air consolidator give travel professionals the flexibility to easily shop and sell custom vacations. Rich content and hundreds of timesaving reservation management, sales, and marketing tools allow travel professionals to succeed in today’s competitive leisure travel industry. Used by more than 100,000 leisure travel agents, VAX VacationAccess was voted “Best Technology Provider” by Agent@Home Readers’ Choice and “Best Supplier/Destination Website” by Recommend Readers’ Choice. Visit www.vaxvacationaccess.com for more information.