Travel Rebates: Adventure Tracker makes direct booking pay off for Affinity Travel Rewards programs.

(Del Mar, CA - 8/14/01) Affinity groups, long plagued by unwieldy, inconvenient rewards programs, can kiss membership cards and paperwork goodbye. Adventure Tracker’s exclusive licensing agreement of PayTrax commission-splitting technology improves on Amazon.com’s wildly successful online affiliate program, enabling credit card issuers, affinity groups and even corporate travel programs to generate revenue from direct travel purchases by members both on- and off-line. Until now tracking has only existed if the person purchased ONLINE.

Affinity groups, like credit card issuers for example, simply place a link on their website that lead cardholders to a private labeled directory of preferred merchants. Although the cardholder views the promotion online, purchases can be made at the retail location, on the phone or online. For the first time, the Affinity Group seamlessly receives a commission for offline purchases. The consumer receives a guaranteed discount without having to ask for it, every time, on travel services such as ski resorts, golf resorts, hotels, cruises, theme parks, tour companies and car rentals.
Adventure Tracker Travel Rebates:
When consumers book and purchase travel service with Adventure Tracker preferred vendors using their registered credit card on- or off-line, the PayTrax credit card transaction reconciliation system automatically tracks and distributes commissions, rebating the consumer a fixed percentage on all goods and services purchased, while affiliates receive a commission on each sale.

No more membership cards to show or coupons to carry, and the Adventure Tracker System seamlessly tracks each transaction regardless of whether the point of purchase is face-to-face, on the phone, via fax or over the Internet. The PayTrax system allows easy monitoring of promotion effectiveness and the Adventure Tracker Rewards Network helps drive repeat business to affiliate merchants and affinity groups.

“When we travel, we use our credit cards at a dozen points of purchase. If we’re lucky, we’ve received a discount somewhere along the line. The Adventure Tracker Rewards Network takes the guesswork out of travel rewards programs and turns them into profit centers.” -- Grant Mohr, CEO

Affinity groups gain increased credit card usage and customer brand loyalty, merchants enjoy a new marketing channel providing audiences in the tens of millions without any direct marketing expenses, and consumers pocket a rebate (Generally 10% or more) on all travel services purchased through the Adventure Tracker travel merchant network.


Travel Rebates:
Tracking referral revenue as customers researched travel options online and purchased offline has posed a difficult problem for the travel industry until now. The Adventure Tracker Rewards Network delivers rebates and referral commissions, no matter the sales channel.
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Contact: Melodee Meyer VP Sales & Marketing
Email: Melodee@adventuretracker.com
Phone: 858.456.7277

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Adventure Tracker's mission is to be the premier provider of travel rewards programs using seamless, invisible transaction solutions merging online and offline commerce. The Adventure Tracker management team brings over 30 years experience in the travel and credit card
transaction marketplaces.