Fairways Golf Announces Strategic Alliances with Avis/Budget, InfoTree, and TravelGuard

Birmingham, AL, April 16, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Fairways Golf Vacations announced today that the tour wholesaler had formed three new and important strategic alliances to strengthen its reservations process and broaden its product offerings to its customers. These alliances included Avis and Budget for tour car rentals, InfoTree’s ProTourSQL tour operations software, and TravelGuard for travel insurance. Alan B. Hale, CTC, Fairways’ President and CEO, said, “Our team is moving forward quickly with our plans to broaden our product line to include more quality components to the golf vacations booked with Fairways. We feel that each of these alliances brings our agent partners, and Fairways, a competitive edge of quality products with long standing reputations for superior service. From TravelGuard, to AVIS/Budget and with InfoTree, we feel that we can deliver ultimate customer service to our agency channel and to our customers.”

Fairways’ world-wide golf tour packages will now include vehicle rentals with Avis/Budget and will be an option for all FIT bookings. In addition, Fairways completed an extensive evaluation of tour operator software and selected InfoTree as its new platform for all tour reservations. Finally, TravelGuard was selected to provide comprehensive golf vacation package insurance for all sales effective immediately.

About Fairways Golf Vacations: Founded in 1990, Fairways has grown to be one of the largest golf tour operators in the nation. With principal operations in Birmingham and Mobile, Alabama, Fairways has more than 300,000 current and past customers. Fairways Golf is the longest tenured wholesaler for the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail and is the official golf packaging company for the Natural State Golf Trail of Arkansas and the Audubon Golf Trail of Louisiana. Serving five Southeastern states, the company will expand its portfolio in 2009 to more U.S. and international destinations while still creating unique golf packages tailored to the individual or group traveler. More information can be found at: http://www.FairwaysGolfVacations.com

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