Vodacom World Online, (a Tiscali S.p.A company), is offering its online customers efficient online booking capabilities on their Travel Channel.
The World Online Travel Channel assists online users with holiday travel arrangements, business trips or booking conference venues online. These capabilities are easy to use and very functional to make the entire experience as simple as possible.
Through simple functionalities, the travel channel offers travellers over a thousand destinations to choose from and book throughout Southern Africa and overseas. Fantastic online discounts are also on offer on flights, hotels and car-rentals.
Says Natalie Pienaar, portal manager of World Online: "We wanted to offer customers the ultimate in online travelling offerings. Our travel channel includes some of SA`s most impressive online travelling companies offering Net users convenient travel bookings at the best prices and the best locations around SA."
World Online travelling partners include Flights.com, where South African travellers are able to book tickets directly on the Internet. The company offers passengers savings of up to 70% on published airfares. Flights.com claims the lowest airfares covering 24 countries.
Travel.co.za provides World Online`s package deals, flight reservations and specialist travel requirements. Internet users can search for packages according to destination and interests with the added benefit of booking in real-time. An itinerary confirmation e-mail is immediately sent to them after the booking has been completed.
SafariNow.com connects you directly with the Travel Operator and allows you to communicate directly with any tour operator. All one needs to do is use SafariNow.com`s search engine to find the desired holiday destination and then book by paying a deposit online. This is where users can get up to 50% off on accommodation throughout SafariNow.com`s extensive database.
Reservations Hotline is the authoritative reference on over 2 000 accommodations, conference and leisure venues. It has an advanced venue search engine that can assist in finding the conference or leisure venue of choice. In addition, one can now book and pay for some 1 500 selected establishments on-line in real-time. Search by date or by rate in any province and users can make reservations directly with the establishment of their choice, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The World Online travel channel can be accessed at: www.worldonline.co.za
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World Online International, acquired by Tiscali S.p.A. in December 2000 (Nuovo Mercato: TIS), is part of one of the largest and fastest-growing Internet network companies in Europe, and, in conjunction with Tiscali, provides access, content, applications and services to 6.8 million registered subscribers as of 30 September 2000. With local operations in 15 countries, the company has the largest geographical footprint of any European Internet provider.
World Online was officially listed on Euronext (formerly the stock exchange of Amsterdam Exchanges) on 17 March 2000. On 7 November 2000, Tiscali launched an offer to combine the two companies that was accepted by shareholders representing 96.1% of World Online`s outstanding share capital on 6 December 2000. Tiscali honoured its offer on 7 December 2000, creating the leading pan-European Internet network company.
WOL`s corporate Web site: www.worldonline.com
Tiscali`s corporate Web site: www.tiscali.com
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