THE SMART TRAVELERS' CORNERHow do smart travelers combine points, perks and privileges from airlines, hotels, car rental agencies and credit card companies and parlay these premiums into low-cost or free travel? 1travel.com and Bob Jones will tell you. 1travel.com announces the launch of its new editorial section, The Smart Travelers' Corner. Here veteran traveler Bob Jones shares his strategic and tactical approach to "opportunistic travel" - combining sound advice with a dose of folksy humor. He and his traveling family circle the globe putting his credo into action. It's hard to "keep up with the Joneses. Even his young children have high level membership in several frequent-flyer programs. "We met Bob via email. He frequently sent us messages asking us to tell others how they too could save money and travel more," says Michael Thomas, CEO and president of 1travel.com. "We researched all of his advice and found him to be one of the most knowledgeable and frugal travelers we have ever met. I hired him immediately." 1travel.com, the site that promises "low price and great advice," adds The Smart Travelers' Corner to its current collection of practical travel-advice features, which include Rules of the Air, The Airline Savings Toolkit, Alternate Airports, Drive & Fly Guide and Low Fare Airlines. Bob Jones will join resident 1travel.com experts Terry Trippler and Nancy Zebrick as part of the site's "Ask the Experts" page, where travelers' questions are answered by this premier panel of experts. The Smart Travelers' Corner will be continuously updated with new features. In addition, edited versions of Bob's latest advice will be emailed weekly to subscribers of 1travel.com's Savings ALERTs. Named PC Computing's "#1 Bargain Travel Site," and one of the "100 Hottest Companies on the Net" by Business 2.0, 1travel.com is the leading website for comprehensive discount travel. At www.1travel.com , consumers can directly purchase value-priced tickets from more than 400 airlines with the site's exclusive Farebeater technology; locate deals at more than 43,000 hotels worldwide with HotelWiz; rent a car from more than 50 companies; and save up to 70% on thousands of vacation packages. Edited by Dave Shultz |
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