• NTL Business (Travel Division) to offer agents web reservations with 20 ferry operators
• Traveleye strengthens position as most comprehensive selling system
• Aferry.to creates connectivity to all major UK and Mediterranean operators

NTL Business (Travel Division), the travel industry’s leading provider of integrated selling and communications solutions, announces the creation of a new solution on Traveleye allowing agents to make commissionable online bookings with over 20 ferry operators.

The agreement with web reservations provider Entee Global Services will see Aferry.to, Entee’s leading online ferry booking gateway available on Traveleye. AFerry.to is the world’s largest real-time ferry booking gateway, providing connectivity to all major UK and Mediterranean ferry operators and offering e-ticketing functionality. The service is due to go live in February.

Aferry.to will become the latest high-profile arrival on Traveleye’s e-marketplace, which offers agents online commissionable bookings across web technology with some of the industry’s leading travel providers. Following recent partnership agreements with Ramesys and Voyager, introducing multi tour operator search and booking solutions on Traveleye, this announcement reflects NTL Business (Travel Division)’s commitment to work with industry players to ensure Traveleye is the most comprehensive agency selling system available.

Other companies available on Traveleye’s e-marketplace include Gold Medal’s Farebank and Hotelbank systems, leading car rental companies Hertz and Holiday Autos, top short breaks operator Superbreak and the UK’s top conference venue finder BMCV (British Meeting & Conference Venues).

Howard Tinker, NTL Business (Travel Division)’s Product Portfolio Manager, said: “This agreement further underlines Traveleye’s position as the complete bookings platform for agents. By developing Traveleye’s web-booking proposition through partnerships with companies such as Entee, NTL Business (Travel Division) is providing agents with the ability to reach leading industry brands across the most advanced technology available, ensuring they can meet customer demands for quick and efficient bookings, through a dynamic and attractive interface.”

Nick Rowley, Entee’s Commercial Director, said: “Joining Traveleye will further increase the profile of Aferry.to with agents and help develop our fast-growing business. We’re delighted to have created this agreement with NTL Business (Travel Division).”

Aferry.to provides web-bookings with the following ferry operators: Hoverspeed, SeaFrance, Eurotunnel, P&O Ferries, Red Funnel, Brittany Ferries, Condor Ferries, Isle of Man Steam Packet, Stena Line, P&O Irish Sea Ferries, Irish Ferries, Pentland Ferries, Anek Line, Anen Line, Dane, Lane, HML, Grand Navi, Scandlines and Northlink Ferries.
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More about NTL Business (Travel Division):
NTL Business (Travel Division) is the travel industry’s leading provider of integrated selling and communications solutions. It operates the industry’s leading reservations network - accounting for 65% of agency-made electronic reservations and £3.6bn of tour operator revenue each year. NTL Business (Travel Division) delivers four product portfolios: Traveleye, the industry’s foremost selling system used by almost 6000 agents, and Traveltalk, Travelconnect and Travelcontact, which deliver voice, telephony and call centre solutions respectively.

More about NTL Business:
NTL Business is a leading provider of integrated business communications. Customers include Virgin.net, Next and HSS. NTL Business offers a broad range of technologies and resources to provide complete multi-service solutions for businesses from large corporations to local companies.

More about Entee Global Services:
Entee Global Services is a leading web technology provider to the travel industry, made up of IT professionals with more than 200 man years experience in the design, development, implementation and management of core IT business systems. The company works with travel providers provide internet reservations technology and distribution channels.

Entee Global Services’s online ferry gateway Aferry.to allows customers to book and pay for any ferry route in real time. The gateway features multi-operator quotation and booking capability all major UK and Europan ferry operators, online timetables, e-ticketing and booking retrieval.

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Jasvir Sandhu
NTL Business (Travel Division)
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