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Travelocity today announced the launch of a specializedSan Diego "super-site," creating a one-stop shopping experience fortravelers headed to the nation's seventh largest city. Whether lookingfor miles upon miles of pristine beaches, thousands of greatrestaurants or world-class entertainment, travelers shopping for tripsto San Diego can now locate their dream vacation within a few simpleclicks at Travelocity.

The new site, featured at www.travelocity.com/sandiego, is theresult of a marketing collaboration forged between Travelocity and theSan Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau intended to provide expandedtravel information, increased booking options and exclusive travelpromotions for fall and winter 2005.

"Relationships such as this allow us to focus on key destinations,providing customers with comprehensive travel information andexclusive money saving deals," said Ross Mantione, vice president ofpartner marketing for Travelocity. "We make it a priority to be ourcustomers' champion by providing industry-leading deals, focusing ourcorporate culture on being a leader in customer service and developingtraveler-centric relationships such as this one. We want to be theagent that travelers know they can rely on from the start of thebooking process to when they return home."

"Tourism is San Diego's third largest industry, drawing in morethan 27 million visitors last year alone," said Reint Reinders,president and CEO of the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau."Through this relationship we will better serve these millions oftravelers by raising awareness of San Diego's attractions andproviding exclusive travel deals to get them here. This is a greatopportunity for us and we look forward to growing our relationshipwith Travelocity moving forward."

Travelocity is committed to being the traveler's champion -before, during and after the trip and works hand-in-hand with theworld's most reputable travel providers so that everything about acustomer's booking will be right. And if it's not, Travelocityguarantees that it will work with its partners to make it right, rightaway. This customer-driven focus, backed by live 24/7 phone support,great prices and powerful shopping technology has made Travelocity thefifth largest travel agency in the U.S. - booking $4.9 billion intravel in 2004. Based in Southlake, Texas, Travelocity also owns andoperates Travelocity Business(SM), Travelocity Europe andlastminute.com, making it the leader in online travel in Europe.Travelocity is owned by Sabre Holdings Corporation (NYSE:TSG), a worldleader in travel commerce.

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