Published in Leisure Travel News

April 19, 1999

Agent Contest

CHICAGO -- Positivespace.com, a major on-line resource for travel agents, is running an agent sweepstakes whose prize is an all-inclusive vacation on River Barge Excursion Lines, which cruises the Mississippi River and Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.

PositiveSpace.com is a Web site that provides on-line consulting and marketing services, Internet connectivity and GDS interfaces.

The site was designed as an on-line business resource that agents can use to get information about nearly any aspect of their business, including current suppliers, new suppliers, bookings, industry statistics, trade association contact information, technology vendors, educational resources and more.

Free to qualified travel agents, PositiveSpace gives travel suppliers the means to use the Internet to reach the agents who have registered with PositiveSpace.

The sweepstakes runs through May 19. The winning agent receives a cruise aboard the 198-guest River Explorer. To enter, agents need to fill out a short form on PositiveSpace.com's Web site.

The number of registered PositiveSpace users was 4,000 after a contest earlier this winter that gave the winner two round trip tickets to anywhere in the Continental U.S.

"We keep growing because we provide valuable services that our subscribers and our sponsoring vendors can't find anywhere else," said Greg Merkley, president of Travel Technology & Magic, the owner and operator of PositiveSpace. "Beyond the daily e-mail news flashes and the bimonthly industry newsletters, we provide an on-line directory that agents use to learn about more than 1,000 suppliers."

The winner was Cindy Plott, assistant travel manager at a Worldwide Travel corporate site in Little Rock, Ark. Plott said that she had been using PositiveSpace.com for about four months to get up-to-the-minute airline information for her clients.