GTP Travel Group Taps REBEL Travel Corporation for Strategic Growth

Cleveland, OH, February 07, 2009 --(PR.com)-- GTP Travel Group, the group travel solutions company, announced today its selection of REBEL Travel Corporation to provide business development, marketing and technology services to further its mission to revolutionize leisure group travel distribution for suppliers, meeting planners, distributors and consumers. The companies have signed a comprehensive consulting agreement.

REBEL Travel Corporation, a next-generation travel distribution services company, is leading the re-launch of GTP Travel Group’s corporate identity, website redesign, marketing and public relations campaigns REBEL Travel Corporation will also work to position GTP Travel Group’s consumer brand, www.GroupTravelPlanet.com, as the leading online destination for any group travel planner. The redesigned websites are slated to be launched Spring 2009.

“REBEL will breath life into our products and ideas and is creating a comprehensive marketing plan for us to execute upon,” said John Vojtush, President and COO of GTP Travel Group. “We will leverage REBEL's depth of resources and industry expertise to uncover new opportunities and deliver superior solutions to our customers and strengthen our marketing vision.”

Additionally, REBEL Travel Corporation is providing GTP strategic direction and business development services including hospitality industry relations, the growth of GTP’s distribution network, and strategic partnership opportunity development. REBEL’s Technology Service support includes streamlining the legacy group booking process, which hoteliers and other suppliers currently experience when servicing a group.

“GTP has created a smarter way for hoteliers to manage leisure group bookings online and we are proud to be working with them to pass along those advantages,” said Fred Bean, CEO of REBEL Travel Corporation. “We enable our partners to think differently about travel distribution by optimizing their distribution programs with a focus on increased revenue and customer value.”

About REBEL Travel Corporation
REBEL Travel Corporation is a next generation travel distribution, lifestyle entertainment, and media company that provides consulting, technology, travel-based events, and media production services for the travel and entertainment industries. Born of an industry need for smarter, more cost-effective, and truly supplier-friendly travel distribution solutions, REBEL provides innovative turn-key and customizable products and services which enable hoteliers and other travel partners to increase revenue to their own websites while also decreasing onward distribution costs. To join the REBELution, log onto www.rebel-travel.com or contact 888-593-7774.

About GTP Travel Group
GTP Travel Group is the group travel solutions company. Started in March 2000, GTP Travel Group automates the leisure group booking process and provides opportunity for growth through GTP Reach, the company’s burgeoning distribution network which includes sites such as Groups @ Orbitz (OWW) and www.coachquote.com. GTPs products include GTP BookIt!, a direct hotel booking engine with negotiated rates for groups, hotel & bus RFP, the GTP PlanIt! Itinerary builder, collaboration tools and deep content that fully utilizes the power of the search engines in targeting both shoppers and buyers. Through its flagship website, www.GroupTravelPlanet.com, it provides SMERF (Sports, Military, Educational, Religious and Fraternal) groups with better ways to plan, book and manage all aspects of their group trips online, saving them valuable time and money. For more information on GTP on GTP Travel Group, contact: 866.597.7960 or log onto: www.gtptravelgroup.com.

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