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| Welcome to Sliva Travel's Online Booking! (1/17/2008) |
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Welcome to Sliva Travel's online booking site! Here you'll find great deals on airfare, hotels, and cars. Enjoy the convenience and flexibility of making your own air, hotel, and car reservations, yet continue to rely on the expertise of the professionals at Sliva Travel for quality control and ticketing. Your itinerary will be reviewed by a professional agent with Sliva Travel prior to ticketing.
In order to guarantee your airfare, your itinerary must be submitted by 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time, and accompanied by a valid credit card payment. Airfare is not guaranteed until tickets are issued. Third party credit cards will not be accepted. The address and phone number in your record must match the billing address and phone number associated with the credit card that you use for payment.
Itineraries submitted after 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time will be reviewed and ticketed on the following business day. PLEASE NOTE: If your airfare has changed or expired overnight, your itinerary will have to be re-priced. Pay careful attention to advance purchase deadlines.
99% of tickets are eligible for electronic ticketing, and will be ticketed as such. If your itinerary does not comply, you will be contacted with other ticketing options.
At the time of ticketing, you will be notified by e-mail. If you would like to cancel your submitted itinerary, please contact us by telephone within 24 hours of ticketing, during regular business hours.
Your reservations may be viewed at any time from "My Profile."
We're here to help! Please contact us by telephone or e-mail with any questions, comments, or concerns related to this site.
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| Corporate Agencies Beat Web Air Fares! (1/16/2008) |
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Article by Jerry Limone.
The study concluded that agencies offered fares averaging $90 less than fares offered on consumer Web sites.
PORTLAND, Ore. - Corporate agencies do a better job finding the lowest fare than the traveler surfing consumer sites on the Internet, according to Topaz International, a company that audits air fares for large corporations. After a seven-month study that tracked the performance of Internet travel sites vs. the abilities of agents, Topaz concluded that agencies offered fares averaging $90 less than fares offered on consumer Web sites. Booking through the designated corporate agency still provides measurable value for the traveler and the corporation," said Valerie Estep, president of Topaz. Topaz said low Internet fares often require travelers to make connections, schedule flights six or more hours from the original requested departure time or use alternate airports. Even when a corporate traveler selected a fare on a consumer Web site, there was usually a fare on some other Web site that could beat it, said Estep, who added that researching fares on the Internet could come at the expense often of an employee's time and productivity.
"Internet Web sites are not always designed to factor traveler time and convenience when searching for the lowest possible fare," Estep said. "The fares returned might not be the most cost effective for the business traveler." Travelers booking through agencies were offered the lowest possible fare more than 95% of the time, and agencies of all sizes performed at the same level, Topaz found. Topaz said fare audits verify that an agency is following a corporation's travel policy, offering the lowest possible fares, and using negotiated rates. Topaz also uses data to benchmark an agency's performance relative to the national average.
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