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ON-LINE Travel Agents/Specialists

Again this month we have updated our listing of Travel Agents that do business on the Net. Some have Web sites others are available only by e-mail. This listing is not an endorsement of these firms, and the text below is provided by the companies themselves. If you're in "the biz", and would like to be considered for this free listing, send a description of your services and specialty to
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• Asia
• Australia/New Zealand
• Caribbean
• Cruising
• Discount Airlines
• Europe
• Full Service
• Germany
• Great Britain
• Hawaii
• Himalaya
• Luxury Services
• Scuba Diving
• Russia
• VAT Tax Refund Service

• Barbara Hua Ye, Amcan Travel Incorporated
  E-Mail:amcan@goamcan.com
  URL: www.goamcan.com
  A full service travel agency with offices in Seattle and San Francisco. Amcan specializes in providing superior services in the following fields:
  1. Tours for groups or individuals visiting China and other Asian destinations.
  2. Best prices for air tickets anywhere.
  3. World wide hotel reservations and car rentals.
  4. Developing and conducting tours for Chinese groups or individuals visiting the USA and Canada.
  Amcan is a member of the International Association of Travel Agents (IATA) and of the Airline Reporting Corporation (ARC). We provide efficient and knowledgable service, and we are happy to help arrange last-minute reservations for your urgent needs. For further information, Contact Ms. Barbara Hua Ye at our Seattle office:

  Amcan Travel - Box 31700 - Seattle, WA 98103
  Tel/Fax: 206-781-1886

• Time to Travel
  E-Mail: ctnttt@ix.netcom.com
  URL: http://www.ultranet.com/amvatrav/agency/timeto.htm
  Aussie Specialist, Certified by the Australian Tourist Commission - Elaine Newnham, President, CTC
  A full service travel agency with two "Certified Aussie Specialists" ready to meet your Australian and New Zeland travel needs, and any other travel requirement. If you are listed in our database we can keep you informed on travel opportunites meeting your own individual profile.

  Time to Travel
  7512 Dr. Phillips Blvd - Orlando, FL 31819
  Phone (407) 345-1181 - Fax (407) 351-6897

• David Morris Travel
  E-Mail: mortrav@ihug.co.nz
  URL: http://ihug.co.nz/kiwimall/travel/cybrgyde.html
  David Morris is a travel author and broadcaster who operates a wholesale travel agency specialising in New Zealand packages. Based in Auckland, his firm is able to give accurate, up-to-the minute advice to travellers and travel agents on NZ travel arrangements.

• Australia/New Zealand Down Under Travel
  E-Mail: staff@anztravel.com
  Brings the South Pacific a little closer to their clients. The Owner, Mary Lou Serr CTC, and her two Australian and New Zealand staff members offer the perfect compliment of experience and local knowledge to their customers. Their "Down Under" niche has quickly risen to the fastest growing tourist region in the world. This boutique company specializes in customized itineraries for adventurous individuals and groups. Based in Los Altos, California, their professional staff can make your "dream trip" come true.

  Serr, in her tenth year of business, has visited the South Pacific 30 times. These business trips are where she seeks out the unique and unusual, non-commercial and people-to-people type situations for her clients. Echoeing the accolades of the company's customers, the New Zealand Tourism board recently awarded Serr's office with a "Preferred Agency" title, in recognition of their outstanding knowledge of tourism in New Zealand.

• Betsy Myers - Cruise Connections
  E-Mail: aj558@lafn.org
  Ahoy! Cruise Connections posts cruise deals periodically on rec.travel.marketplace. A free Top Tips brochures for planning Group, Business and Incentive Trips is available by calling, faxing or emailing name, company, address and phone #. Cruise Connections monitors rec.travel.cruises regularly and answers posts or individual email queries"Many cruisers have responded to our on-line service with very satisfactory results," says Betsy. "It is an easy way for serious cruisers to find out the information and price they seek." Contact Betsy or Mike.

  Cruise Connections - A Cruise Only Agency
  Voice: 800.248.SHIP 310.275.4608 Fax: 310.275.3914

• Airhitch Online Staff
  E-Mail: airhitch@isicom.fr
  We are not exactly a "travel agent"...we are a student-founded organization which for the past 25 years has (very quietly) helped members of the academic community (altho the service is now open to anyone) get cheaply (like, $169 from the east coast!) to Europe on more or less a demand basis by making themselves available to fill up airplanes at the last possible moment before departure when the seats are about to perish valueless and thus command a lower price than they can command when prior reservations are possible.

  Airhitch Online Staff

• Sun Travel of San Diego
  E-Mail: netravel@ix.netcom.com
  URL: http://www.itn.net/cgi/get?itn/index*,itn/agencies/804186155
  Sun Travel specializes in travel to Europe (Portugal & Spain especially) and the entire continent. We are an official wholesaler for the romantic Pousadas (Portugal) and Paradores (Spain) of the Iberian Peninsula. Our tailored packages use these historic manor houses, mansions and castles. The travel trade is welcome to call for wholesale rates. Consumers will be offered special rates in addition to discounts on car rentals and rail passes.

  Aside from offering: cruise discounts, and expert assistance in planning travel to Asia & the South Pacific, we have some other areas of expertise.

  Having recent, first-hand knowledge of the beautiful country of Costa Rica, we can tailor everything from a surf-safari to a jungle expedition to one of the several national parks across the country.

  Our Gay & Lesbian Travel division: Man 2 Man ~ Woman 2 Woman Vacations is a member of IGTA, The International Gay Travel Association. A decade of experience goes into planning your perfect getaway. From popular products like RSVP for men, and Olivia Cruises & Vacations for women to a private island escape, we have the knowledge to make your dream a reality!

• Helmut W. Geissler, Online Travel
  E-Mail: online@eurorail.com
  URL: http://www.EuroRail.com
  OnlineTravel specializes in providing the highest quality European Travel products with premier service at discount prices. In addition to guaranteed airfares, OnlineTravel provides competitive train travel, and auto rental products.

  At http://www.EuroRail.com, OnlineTravel provides European travel options, planning tips and various railpass plans. Americans, generally unfamiliar with train travel, will discover information helpful for considering European Train travel vs. Driving through Europe, distances and travel times, suggestions for saving time and money, and more. Many free offers and discounts on European hotels, cruise lines, ferries, sightseeing motorcoaches, scenic and historic railways are available to railpass holders.

  OnlineTravel's Discount Airfare Guarantee: If after having purchased tickets from OnlineTravel, within 30 days a cheaper fare for identical arrangements can be found and booked, OnlineTravel will refund 125% of the fare difference. These fares are on internationally recognized scheduled carriers, not cancelable charter flights!

  Visit the OnlineTravel web site or call (800) 660-5300.

• Carol Jo Bays, President - Travel & Cruise Professionals International
  E-Mail: travelpro@travelpro.com
  URL: http://www.webcom.com/~odyssey1/travel/home.html
  We are a full service travel agency based in Portland, Oregon. We are on the Internet every day looking for people to help with free information, and of course, for business. We have a web page of our own and a section on it for booking requests. We also have a section for requesting free destination information to major vacation destinations. We offer travel of all kinds, but our staff includes a specialist on scuba diving, two on cruising, one on the Caribbean, one on India and that area of the world, one on Israel and Egypt, one on Las Vegas and Reno packages, and one on Hawaii and Mexico. We also do group tours, conventions and incentive travel.

  Travel & Cruise Professionals International
  Voice: 800.695.6953 - 503.624.9406 Fax: 503.624.9394

• SEATOP Reisen
  E-Mail: info@reise.de
  URL: http://www.reise.de/
  A german travel agency based in Munich, Bavaria. We are offering flights and tours from german tour operators, including cheap flights and last minute trips. Our staff has experience in tour operating and we can arrange individual trips as well as business tours. One of our speciality are catamerans (Privilege/Jeantot) which you can charter with or without skipper and crew in the Mediterranean sea and in the Caribbean sea.

• Swanton Travel
  E-Mail: swanton@fast.net
  An agency specializing in travel to Great Britain with emphasis on Wales and Scotland. Katharine Lancy CTC is an industry veteran of 17 years and has been a Certified Travel Counselor for 10 years. She is the first U.S. agent to be named Wise Wales Master by the Wales Tourist Board and is the first US agent to achieve both Wise Wales Master and scotsmaster designations. She publishes a free brochure travel guide called "One Stop Shopping for the UK" which is applicable to leisure, business or VFR travel.

• Ben Wallace - World Adventures /Himalayan Travel
  E-Mail: worldadv@netaxis.com
  URL: http://www.gorp.com/himtravel.html
  Since 1978 Himalayan Travel has operated adventure travel programs that specialize in trekking, camping safaris, rafting, customized private touring arrangements and cycling in Asia, Europe, Africa, The Middle East and South & Central America. We offer both group travel and independent programs. Perhpas our premier destinations are Nepal, Tibet, India, Thailand & Bhutan. No company knows this area better or can offer more options to the traveler. We have the widest range of trekking and mountaineering tips available through any U.S. operator.

  World Adventures /Himalayan Travel
  Voice: 800.225.2380 - 203.359.3711 Fax 203.359.3669

• Andrew Stanley-Jones, President, Canadian Business Advertising Network
  E-Mail: asj@cban.com
  URL: http://www.cban.com/its/
  We will convert your ideas to a detailed plan or design a personal program as structured or as flexible as you wish. Spend a few days in London. (we know it well) then perhaps a week in a lovely 18th. century house with a Range Rover or luxury van at your beck and call, and a driver selected for his knowledge of your special interests. Visit places that the ordinary tourist never sees.

  Enjoy candlelight dinners back at the house and perhaps take a leisurely trip on the beautiful Kennet and Avon Canal that meanders though some of the loveliest countryside in England. Go trout fishing in Ireland or play some golf on some of the fine but little known west country courses. Then there are the off-the-beaten-track wonders of France. the choices are endless and intriguing. You owe it to yourself to check. It costs nothing and we love to talk travel.

• Robert Keeney, Director, Sales & Marketing Focus On Travel / Soft Scuba
  E-Mail: focusnow@ix.netcom.com
  We are more dive travel consultants than just a travel agency. Even if we have not personally dived with some operators, we have up-to-date information on them. Additionally, if we need to learn about other operators not included in our current data-base, we have the research facilities.

  We seek out the divers and operators who are interested in safety, fun, and no-stress diving.

  We may be one of the few, or perhaps only, travel/meeting planning organization to have both a certified diver and active status scuba instructor on staff. We have found that many divers avoid travel personnel because of their glaring lack of knowledge of the diver's special requirements. Likewise, because it is far beyond the scope of a dive shop to have worldwide expertise of matching the individual diver to the right dive destination, there is very little customization offered by them. Consider---their scope of expertise is selling the right equipment to you and being sure you are properly trained to be both a knowledgeable and safe diver.

  Focus On Travel / Soft Scuba Miami, FL
  Voice: 800.364.0620 - 305.557.1006 Fax: 305.557.8007

• Steve Caron, Sindbad Travel
  E-Mail: sindbad@ryh.spb.su
  URL: http://www.spb.su/ryh/
  Sindbad Travel is Russia's first full-service student and youth budget travel agency. It's products include discounted student and youth air tickets, train tickets including the famous Trans-Siberian routes, booking center for Hostelling International (HI) hostels worldwide, HI Guestcards, international student identity cards, visa processing, group packages as well as incoming services to Russia. It is also a service center for clients carrying student air tickets issued by STA and Kilroy travels. Sindbad works together with and is located in the same building as HI's St. Petersburg International Hostel. Both Sindbad and the hostel maintain a major web site on the Internet with extensive information about budget travel to Russia.

  Sindbad's Location:
  St. Petersburg International Hostel
  3rd Sovetskaya Ulitsa, 28 - St. Petersburg, 193036
  Tel: +7 (812) 327-8384 - Fax: + 7 (812) 329-8019

  Sindbad International Postal Address: (to Russia via Finnish post)
  Sindbad Travel - PO Box 8, SF-53501 - Lappeenranta, Finland
  

• Shawn Neece CPA Co.
  E-Mail: neececpa@ix.netcom.com
  We provide VAT tax refund services for European travelers. We are presently working on our WWW page. We reply to all E-Mail requests for infromation and services within one business day. An average of 20% of all hotel,transportation, meals and other travel charges is the VAT tax component and is refundable to European business travelers by the respective European Gov'ts. We provide all our services on a contingentcy fee basis.