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Travelocity Partners with Eurovacations.com to Provide Custom-Designed European Vacations

Leading European Vacation Supplier Provides Travelocity with Industry's Top European Vacation Inventory and Customized Booking Capability

FORT WORTH, Texas and WHITE PLAINS, New York (November 15, 2000) - Travelocity (NASDAQ: TVLY), the leading travel Web site, and EuroVacations.com, the Web's premier one-stop distributor of fully-personalized, quality European vacations, today announced they will offer EuroVacations.com's intuitive vacation planning tools on the newly designed European Destination section of Travelocity.com.

"By partnering with EuroVacations.com, we are giving Travelocity members the best tools for custom-building their own dream vacation to Europe," said Chris McAndrews, senior vice president of leisure travel and media for Travelocity. "This is yet another way Travelocity is changing how people shop and buy their vacation travel on the Web. Travelocity is committed to giving members the most intuitive products and features available for European vacation research, planning and booking. EuroVacations.com adds a valuable new resource for our customers."

This partnership provides Travelocity members with the most up-to-date destination information and content including a unique, pan-European, one stop shopping opportunity offering an array of travel components, selected from the best service providers in each category, from air and land carriers to hotels and other ancillary services. Additionally, members will receive around-the-clock online booking capabilities with immediate confirmation of reservations with continuous access to all services through a combination of Web-based and traditional customer service. EuroVactions.com utilizes a dynamic packaging engine allowing customers to build their own packages online-- an unmatched commitment to quality in service and product delivery. "With the established buying power and reputation of the, Rail Europe Group, Avanti Destinations, and Accor Group we've crafted EuroVacations.com into the most qualified destination authority, providing quality inventory distribution via the Web. For Travelocity.com, we're giving their members the highest possible quality, value, reliability and unmatched customer service available," said Bernard Frelat, president and chief executive officer of EuroVacations.com "Our alliances within the travel community are the backbone of our offline and online strategies. We're pleased to team with Travelocity, the leader in online travel booking, to afford their members the best method for custom-designing their next - or first - European vacation." Under the multi-year agreement, EuroVacations.com will be the preferred vacation provider for the Travelocity.com European Destinations section. The European vacation planning tools will launch on Travelocity.com later this year.

About EuroVacations.com

The joint venture of Rail Europe Group, Avanti Destinations and the Accor Group - the world's largest hotel operator - EuroVacations.com (www.eurovacations.com) brings fully personalized, itinerary-based European vacation planning and booking to travelers looking to experience Europe in style. EuroVacations offers a unique "dynamic packaging" functionality developed on proprietary technology, offering endless options to EuroVacations.com customers, by allowing them to create online their own, fully customized vacation plans and itineraries. This option is available with or without the usage of the recommended (or profiling) system used to suggest hundreds of relevant vacation ideas to EuroVacations.com customers, based on their preferences and profile. EuroVacations.com draws from a combined 85 years of European travel experience. Founded in early 2000, privately held EuroVacations.com currently employs 110 people in its White Plains, NY and Portland, OR, offices.