Travel agency and distributors now compete with each other at a functional level in order to meet an increasing appetite for choice, control and convenience in planning and purchasing travel. Revelex provides travel agencies with the ability to do business with the world's travelers as they move increasingly to the Internet to fulfill their needs for information and reservations. Revelex is a full-featured Internet booking engine that enables consumers to make travel reservations via the Internet. Using a standard Web browser, users can:

• Search flights by availability or best-fare.
• Select cruises, tours, dynamics vacation packages, flights, rental cars, and hotel rooms that fit their requirements.
• Price and purchase a full itinerary.
• Deposit personal information, loyalty programs, and travel preferences in a user-profile database.

Revelex uses the functions of a host system, such as a Global Distribution System (GDS) or a Central Reservation System (CRS). Revelex incorporates data stored in multiple database management systems that may contain private/opaque/negotiated airline fares, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruise lines, tour companies, and user-profile information.

RTN is configured for use with GoGo World Wide Vacations, Hotels.com, CNG Hotels, Pegasus, Sabre, Travel Impressions, and direct to many other non-GDS and GDS connected travel vendors. Revelex® constantly adds new direct connect vendors.

Features
• GDS full function.
• Travel options for air, car, hotel, cruise, tour, insurance, shore excursions, and client profiles
• Ability to mark up net fares or discount base fares for leisure products
• Complete transaction reporting for booking, sales, and commission
• Ability to search for hotels using a map of the city
• Spell-checking for all manual-entry fields(e.g. "Atlnta" is converted to "Atlanta")
• Translation of city and airline codes
• Customer relationship management (CRM) exporting features
• Ability to build and export lists to direct mail or e-mail programs
• Links to information services for weather, airport information, etc.
• Access to standard support services provided by Revelex®

Provides the capability for a user who is not trained on a professional travel reservations system to reserve travel components. This process is accomplished by providing user-friendly help screens and by converting plain-language input into the syntax understood by the reservations systems. Departure City, Arrival City and Date Form appear on the first travel page. Then the computer presents the user with Hotel, Car, Airline, Cruise, and Tour Options/Suggestions. A dynamic "Please Wait" logo with rotating text messages will appear to assure the client that searches are being created.

This function allows the user to register with the service and includes the allocation of a unique user ID and password for each user. At time of registration, the user specifies his or her personal details and billing information. Multiple credit cards can be entered for later use when making a booking. The user profile also supports the addition of passenger information and preferences for seating, meals, and frequent-flyer numbers for up to nine passengers per itinerary. At the time of booking, the user can sign in to retrieve details that will be added automatically to the itinerary. The user also can retrieve, display, update, and save profile information at any time. The system gives users the option to be notified for special fares, newsletters, etc.

When the user fills out the profile, a currency preference can be selected for the presentation of the booking engine.

Upon the completion of an input form (which lists departure and destination cities, along with the preferred travel dates and times, carrier, and class of service), the user is presented with available flights. A flight can be added to the itinerary or a booking can be requested.

After the user selects his or her desired flights by moving from each flight availability screen, the system tracks selections and builds an itinerary.

The user can enter city and airport names normally. The system provides name-to-code conversions via data in its local database and will prompt with a choice if more than one city has the same or a similar name. The user can press on hyperlinked airport codes that, when clicked, display the full city name. The system also repairs any misspelled city reference and provides the user with a selection of all airports within an 80-mile radius of the city.

After completion of flight selection, the user can ask the system to price the itinerary. The system builds a PNR on the reservation system, requests pricing, and displays the price and a full copy of the itinerary. After receiving the price, the host system ignores the PNR. The pricing function recognizes the point of sale involved and the currency in which to quote the fare.

The system uses the capabilities of the host system to seek out the lowest priced fare and seat availability for the itinerary, based on the class within the cabin selected. Net, contracted, and opaque fares also can be displayed and booked by the consumer.

The user can keep a record of the itinerary without making any reservation or holding inventory on the host system. This function stores the itinerary on the system server for later retrieval, when the itinerary must be re-priced against the host system.

The user can log in with his or her user ID and password at any time to retrieve reservations, and can cancel or book the itinerary.

A priced itinerary or a retrieved reservation can be booked by selecting this option. At this point, the billing and frequent-flyer information will be entered or retrieved from the user's profile and the credit-card authorization will be run. The PNR is then queued for processing depending on the fulfillment option selected. The "My Itinerary" feature allows you to store and view flights, hotels, cruises, tours, and car rentals you have booked and those that you have searched for but not booked.

This page displays a list of all the flights, hotels rooms, cruises, tours, and car rentals you have booked and all the products you have searched for and added to your itinerary.

By using the individual book links, you can select any flight, hotel room, car rental, cruise, tour, or a group of flights to book individual items in an itinerary.

You then have the option to delete your selection by using the delete link.

You can also delete a flight, hotel room, or car rental using the delete link.

This page displays the details of your selected flights from which you can then:

• Review details;
• Book a flight, a hotel room, cruise, tour package, or car rental; and
• Review or change passenger billing address.

The Personal Itinerary Page also shows you the booking reference number for booked flights.

You have the option to add a flight, hotel room, cruise, tour, or car rental to your itinerary by clicking the "add to itinerary" button when it is displayed.

When something is booked, it is added automatically to the itinerary you've created.

All Availability and Itinerary display screens include a hyperlink that, when clicked, will retrieve and display the flight, hotel, cruise, or car rental details, such as duration, amenities, activities, stopover times, and meals.

All priced itineraries include hyperlinks that, when clicked, display the fare rules associated with the itinerary.

The system can support multiple currencies by relying on the use of terminal addresses allocated on the host reservations system being set up with pseudo-city codes (office ID) and required associated currencies. If it is determined that the user should be quoted in, for example UK£, from either the user's home currency, departure point, or other determining factor, the requests to the host access server will be made with a terminal address pool. This terminal address pool would have agent assembly areas assigned to a specific office ID with a default currency of UK£. The system also will support the euro. Any consumer entering the site from a country that has an assigned currency will be set automatically to that currency.

The system validates credit cards and checks the card name against address, using the functionality provided by the host reservation system.

The system supports non-published fares through the private-fares database capabilities provided by the host (e.g., Pegasus special pricing codes or Sabre® Net Fare Mark-Up tool.). This allows travel companies to publish fares in an online database for which an agreement number assigns access. Fares may include percentage discount, flat rate, and net-net fares. The presentation of fares can be conditioned by the system, and the system would automatically select the appropriate fare for that location. Where a special fare is not available, the system is programmed to default to published fares.

The system supports e-ticketing as it is supported by the host GDS and individual airline CRS. Functions can include a special notice to the purchaser to highlight the availability of e-ticketing where applicable, and to offer the choice between e-ticketing and regular paper ticketing.

The system allows the traveler to construct an itinerary using point-to-point, open-jaw, and round-the-world ticketing, and will price the complete journey.

The system provides your clients with direct access to cruise vacations and pricing 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They can book and pay for their cruise right from your Web site. If desired, your customers also have the ability to request that an agent from your office contact them for more information about a cruise they have found on your site. The engine offers one of the most extensive content databases, with over 2,000 ship, cabin, and deck plan images, plus a detailed, informative Port Guide. The host agency can manage and display to consumers special cruise fares using the integrated cruise specials engine.

• Access to 22 cruise lines — 12 electronically and 3 more in the next few months
• Real-time cabin category availability
• Best available cabin displays
• Deck plan layouts, cabin configurations, photos, and dining/seating options
• Port-of-call information
• Immediate confirmation from the cruise line

The system provides your clients with direct access to tour vacations and pricing through GoGo World Wide Vacations and Travel Impressions. New tour companies are being added and the system provides a function for your agency to add any tour product into the database to be searched and requested by consumers.

• Access to 72 popular vacation destinations and over 1000 properties
• Real-time availability
• Immediate confirmation from the tour company

The system provides reservations capability for cars using the inventory hosted by the major global distribution systems, and it can provide a seamless interface directly to car-rental reservations systems. When car reservations are made after an airline reservation, the system automatically "picks up" the arrival and departure dates in the airline itinerary.

The system provides hotel reservations capability using the inventory hosted by the major global distribution systems (Amadeus, Galileo, Worldspan, Sabre), CNG Hotels, Hotels.com (IAN), Pegasus, and Travelweb (under certification). It can provide a seamless interface directly to hotel reservations systems. When a hotel reservation is made after an airline reservation, the system automatically "picks up" the arrival and departure dates in the airline itinerary. The search engine is based on a proprietary worldwide database of latitude and longitude for all cities and points of interest that can be drilled down with the use of an interactive map, city center, ZIP Code, or airport.

The system also provides a gateway to inventory maintained on a private database that is not distributed via the GDS/CRS system. Such inventory could include other travel components such as tours, car rentals, a private hotel inventory and price structure, and event tickets. On Web sites for which direct inventory access has been established, the system can provide a seamless gateway into airline and other components not included in the company's internal inventory.

Destination information is available throughout the site.

An administration center enables remote administration and monitoring of the agency site.

Administrators use their standard Web browser to:
• Query and browse the booking log;
• View the overall system statistics, including total sales by day and month; and
• Make content changes, including color, text, articles, and layout.

The administration center is where the color settings and e-mail defaults are located.

Administrators can allow reservations for all airlines to be made over a GDS, or limit the reservations capability to one airline or several, and can turn on or off the engine's ability to make car, hotel, and air reservations.

Web site leads and calls can be entered into a sales tool that allows the agent to book on behalf of a client through our companion product, Power Agent® 4.0.

Client data and preferences can be stored in a database for maintaining account information such as address, telephone, fax number, passenger list, billing data, seating preferences, frequent-flyer numbers, special meal requirements, credit-card number, email address, and much more. A Passenger Name Record (PNR) item lets the user transfer stored data to a PNR, edit information, add remarks, and complete the process in standard GDS/CRS language. Client itineraries are stored forever and are accessible for marketing programs in the future. Client data, stored on the server, are available wherever and whenever the user accesses the system. Profile information is encrypted for security.

• RTN uses the Data Encryption Standard (DES) for encrypting all user and agent information.
• All RTN servers are firewall-protected.

The RTN Command Center provides complete control over user authentication and access privileges. It maintains a subscriber database and can require (by agency request) users to supply a user ID and password before access is granted. Administrators can manage user accounts from anywhere on the Internet.

With RTN, you can manage all of your group contracts for cruises and hotel in one easy-to-use interface that allows all consumers to book into those groups as if they were live inventory.

With RTN, we can customize non-GDS and alternate GDS booking to create passive PNR's in your primary GDS so you can import them into your financial or back-office software. We can also create exportable files that you can import directly into your back-office software.

RTN can be set up to prioritize travel vendors for your Web sites. Using this feature allows the agency to generate more revenue by booking with vendors that pay the agency higher overrides and/or commissions. RTN also informs the agency of popular travel products requested by consumers so additional commissions can be negotiated.