For Immediate Release
Contact: Holly Botsford
Public Relations Manager
414.934.1286, hbotsford@marktravel.com

Jurni Signs 12 of Mark Travel's Vacation Companies as Preferred Suppliers

MILWAUKEE, Sept. 2, 2004 - A dozen of the initial preferred suppliers named for Sabre's recently created leisure travel consortium, the Sabre Jurni Network, are vacation companies operated by The Mark Travel Corporation.

La Macchia is the founder of the Mark Travel Corporation, which includes 16 leading vacation companies and is recognized as one of the largest and most diversified leisure travel companies in the United States. The company has been in business for 30 years and, in addition to managing its own private label brands such as Funjet Vacations, prides itself on being the company that other leading airlines and hotels trust to manage their vacation brands.

These 12 popular, nationally-recognized vacation brands include: AeroMexico Vacations, ATA Vacations, Funjet Vacations, Midwest Airlines Vacations, MGM Mirage Vacations, Mountain Vacations, Southwest Airlines Vacations, TransGlobal Vacations, Travel Charter, United Vacations, US Airways Vacations and Vacations by Adventure Tours.

According to Mark Travel's Chief of Staff, Brian Robb, this is just the start of a more expansive business marketing relationship between Mark Travel and Jurni that will also benefit travel agents and consumers.

"This relationship brings together two strong marketing and technology organizations," said Robb. "For agents, this winning combination gives them the expertise to expand and target their customer base, the right technology platform with 24/7 web based access for any home or office agency, and access to some of the strongest vacation brands in the industry. Together, we are offering agents the best technology with the best products and services - in one desktop."

Travel agents in the Jurni Network also benefit from the new relationship with access to improved commission overrides for bookings made through VAX VacationAccess, the popular web-based, leisure travel booking and management portal.

VAX Vacation Access will soon be part of Jurni's integrated desk top as well as the Sabre® system desktop application as Sabre Vacations (a private label version of VAX VacationAccess offered by Trisept Solutions), which means that agents will not have to toggle back and forth to the Internet to access the vacation booking engine.