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.travel (A new exclusive industry space on the Internet) Overview

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.travel (A new exclusive industry space on the Internet) Overview

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  1. .travel (A new exclusive industry space on the Internet) Overview

  2. For your information: While the .travel application was filed with ICANN, on March 12th, 2004, there is no guarantee that the .travel sTLD will be awarded if it does not meet the criteria established in the sTLD RFP. Selections are anticipated on or before August 2004.

  3. .travel What is it going to mean for the travel industry? What is it going to mean for you?

  4. WHAT is.travel? .com .biz .info .co.uk* .travel TLDs (Top Level Domains) • Industry-sponsored • Industry-restricted • Authenticated domain names • “Trust” factor • No cyber-squatting • No defensive registrations • e-commerce facilitator • .travel Directory Distinguishing Elements NONE * other than being a country-code domain

  5. WHY is.travel necessary? GLOBALEMPLOYMENT Tourism Agriculture Mining Communications

  6. WHY is.travel necessary? WHAT is.travel? GLOBALEXPORTS Clothing / Textiles Tourism Steel Automobiles

  7. WHY is.travel necessary? Global impact: 5%oftotal global economic output… 10%of all international trade… 28.5%ofall online transactions…

  8. WHY is.travel necessary? INTERNET USER GROWTH 1996 2000 2003 2005 …this means there will beover one billion Internet usersas early as 2005…

  9. WHY is.travel necessary? …travel accounts for the most searches of all other industries with over168,000,000…. Overture / March 2003

  10. WHY is.travel necessary? INDUSTRY SECTOR Travel Books/Music/Movies/Tickets Retail IT / Computing Health / Beauty Financial Services Toys/Hobbies/Collectibles Automotive Apparel / Jewelry Electronics / Appliances NUMBER OF INTERNET SEARCHES

  11. WHY is.travel necessary? • Who is the traveler of tomorrow? • has“strategic control”of their own travel plans • 6 of 10use Internet for travel planning • 58%believebest rates are online • want to“personalize”their travel experience • Peter Yesawich, Yesawich Pepperdine Brown & Russel

  12. WHY is.travel necessary? GLOBAL ONLINE PURCHASES PhoCusWright 1991 2000 2003 2005 .travelgives all travel and tourism entities their enhanced share of the projected 2005 online travel purchases of $150,000,000,000

  13. WHAT are.travelBenefits? .travel Directory ...every .travel registrant will have a listing in the .travel Directory, which isdesigned to match buyers and sellersof travel, tourism, or travel-related products or services …the .travel Directory will be a global online source of travel data organized according to a travel and tourism taxonomy, supported by a world leader in cataloguing and directories

  14. WHAT are.travelBenefits? .travel Trust Factor …ALL .travel registrants will be authenticated, therefore ALL Internet users will be able to rely on .travel domain names as sites they canTRUSTthereby enhancing e-commerce transactions.

  15. WHO is behind.travel? • Travel Community • Businesses, organizations • and entities: • Registrants and Users • Policy Source and Focus • Tralliance Corporation • Authority over: • .travel Registry • .travel Directory • Service Providers: • NeuLevel • ChoicePoint • IATA • WAND .travel • TTPC • Membership open to all bona fide travel associations • 25 Board Directors representing all travel sectors • Policy Development • Informal Domain Name Dispute Resolution

  16. WHO is behind.travel? The Travel Partnership Corporation Board of Directors Jean-Claude Baumgarten (Chairman) WTTC Alain-Philippe Feutre / IH&RA Bill Maloney / ASTA Birger Backman / UFTAA Kevin Dobby / IATA Michael Crye / ICCL Michael Gehrisch / IACVB Peter de Jong / PATA Tom Jenkins / ETOA Tanya Abrahamse / TBCSA

  17. WHEN will.travel be available? ICANN Timeline March 2004: .travelapplication submitted to ICANN April: Public Comment Period July: Independent Evaluation Period Ends August: Contract Period (with ICANN) October: Start-up Period January 2005: Open Registration

  18. WHEN will.travel be available? [insert name of your association] Timeline for .travel Summer 2004: (1).travel Data Authentication Forms to be sent out to our association members to fill in (2) IH&RA will forward the authenticated data to Tralliance, at which time each .travel registrant will receive a Unique Identifying Number (UIN) Autumn 2004: (3) IH&RAwill notify our .travel registrants when the .travel Start-up Period begins

  19. Some useful sites for more information: .travel Application:www.icann.org (or: www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-19mar04.htm) The Travel Partnership Corporation:www.ttpc.org Tralliance Corporation:www.tralliance.info QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

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