Company Profile

About e-Travel Blackboard

Agents Support Services Pty Ltd (Australia) operates a broad portfolio of original content news websites reaching travel professionals and consumers across the globe. Celebrating 25 years (2010), the flagship brand, e-Travel Blackboard provides news and industry specific information to travel enthusiasts via seven websites; e-Travel Blackboard; Australia, New Zealand, Asia, The Americas, etbMICE , etbTV and Travel Now.

Celebrating 10 years (2010) e-Travel Blackboard is the "must read" online travel news publication that travel professionals depend on.

e-Travel Blackboard's Reach

e-Travel Blackboard readers can choose to subscribe for free to our "Top Stories" email newsletters, delivered each weekday, or RSS feeds. The vast majority visit the various websites direct or via a search engine.

Early adopters that pride themselves on being the first to know follow e-Travel Blackboard on Twitter, Facebook, Blogs and thousands of linked websites.

e-Travel Blackboard is available to preferred travel agent groups via their intranet sites.

All the major search engines index e-Travel Blackboard's articles daily. Google, Yahoo and Bing consider e-Travel Blackboard a reliable news source.

Unique editorial style

e-Travel Blackboard's editorial team post hundreds of fresh news stories each week day.

Readers say they love e-Travel Blackboard's format with news on the homepage sorted by industry. Being able to scroll down finding news categories and articles relevant, or of interest, keeps them up-to-date and is an informative lunch-time read.

e-Travel Blackboard Australia edition is published at approx 1100 AEST.

Broad categories embrace News, Classifieds and Time-Out articles

e-Travel Blackboard's websites;

Australia www.etravelblackboard.com
New Zealand www.etravelblackboard.co.nz
Asia www.etravelblackboard.asia
Americas www.etravelblackboard.us
eTB MICE www.etbmice.com

Other services include;

Email Distribution - An outsourced email marketing service. Using Australia's most up-to-date list of travel industry contacts, we can deliver a standalone email message to the travel industry sorted by country, industry, state or agency group.
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Travel Now - A free weekly product email newsletter displaying current Cruise, Package, Accommodation, Car and Airfare deals aimed at drawing consumers to their local travel agent.
www.travelnow.com.au

Branded Newsletters - Travel agents can subscribe to their own Branded Newsletter service. Based on the Travel Now product, agents can add additional product specials and forward this weekly email to their database of clients to tempt new enquiries and new business.
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TravPress - A web-based tool where clients can upload email addresses, design or attach flyers and send out mass email blasts. It gives a solution for sending emails to multiple recipients effortlessly. Create, manage, deliver and track emails sent to a private subscriber database. Fantastic for product specials and newsletters
www.travpress.com

Website Design & Hosting - We build travel agent and wholesaler websites. We strive to make a web presence affordable to all industry sectors and to improve upon the technological aspects within the travel industry as a whole. Agents Support Systems also maintains travel agents' websites by offering website hosting, email hosting and expert IT support by trained and experienced employees.
www.agentssupport.com.au

Submit news stories editor@etbnews.com Contact our sales team for advertising sales@etbnews.com

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