AS NORTH AMERICANS TRAVEL CLOSER TO HOME, A NEW PLANNING TOOL GENERATES ITINERARIES, INCOME AND TIME SAVINGS FOR TRAVEL SELLERS

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. -– As more people are traveling closer to home, a new online tool by North American Journeys is helping travel agents and tour operators access a database of customizable North American itineraries while saving time and earning referral fees from attractions, retail stores, restaurants, lodging and sightseeing companies without contracting. The aid is available to all travel sellers at no cost at www.VisitNAJ.com.

“VisitNAJ.com puts the profit into and takes the effort out of selling North American vacations ,” says Jake Steinman, president of North American Journeys. “Now, travel sellers can easily create custom itineraries to some 300 cities across the U.S. and Canada and earn referral fees from easily printed savings coupons, called VAPs. The site’s research capabilities alone save the equivalent of a quarter of a person’s time. Before, travel sellers would have had to attend time-consuming sales shows or arrange individual contracts to get the same capabilities,” says Steinman.

The VisitNAJ.com site employs powerful software that allows travel sellers to create custom itineraries in under three minutes, print VAPs in as little as three seconds, and request net rates from dozens of travel companies by email with a single click. The site was designed to serve as a time-saving itinerary planning tool for travel arrangers, with royalty-free printable photographs among 35 other useful resources.

Presently, more than 100 VAPs – redeemable in about a dozen of the continent’s largest cities – are offered on VisitNAJ.com. Steinman says, “More VAPs are being added all the time. The itineraries and VAPs help travel sellers add value to what they sell with very little work and they don't cost a cent. VisitNAJ is underwritten by domestic attractions, accommodations and destinations at such low cost that they are able to offer the best prices available.”

North American Journeys (NAJ) is a twelve-year-old marketing company that specializes in the production of tourism promotional projects. NAJ has had long-standing relationships with Starwood Hotels and Resorts, Alamo Rent A Car, Cendant, MasterCard International and Northwest Airlines. In addition to VisitNAJ.com, NAJ publishes two subscription-based travel industry newsletters and organizes three travel development conferences each year. NAJ is a member of the Travel Industry Association, Receptive Services Association, and the National Tour Association. More about NAJ can be found at www.visitnaj.com within “about us.”