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Corporate Social Responsibility
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12.04.2007 - 08:16am ET
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YELLOWPAGES.Travel Partners With CheapTickets.com and Donates 15% of Net Proceeds to Multiple Charities
(CSRwire) YELLOWPAGES.travel, a tool that enables users to search the top 12
travel websites with one click, has now partnered with CheapTickets.com
and donates 15% of net proceeds to multiple charities. Users of
CheapTickets.com can now search the site along with 11 other major travel
sites with one click and donate to multiple charities such as the American
Red Cross and the American Cancer Society amongst others.
LOS ANGELES, CA - December 4, 2007 - /PRNewswire/ - Yellow Pages
Corporation, operator of popular online YellowPages websites and telephone
books including travel website aggregator YELLOWPAGES.travel, today
announced it has partnered with CheapTickets.com. YELLOWPAGES.travel will
also be donating 15% of the net proceeds received from all airfare, hotel
and car rental bookings performed on the site to multiple charities. This
includes all revenue received from CheapTickets.com.
YELLOWPAGES.travel, the first tool to aggregate the top 12 travel
sites now offers airfare, hotels, and car rental bookings through a
partnership with CheapTickets.com. Unlike other travel sites which only
search the individual airline, hotel and car rental sites,
YELLOWPAGES.travel provides a tool where users can search all 12 travel
sites at one time.
Users of CheapTickets.com are urged to consider YELLOWPAGES.travel for
flight, hotel and car rental searches and search all 12 major travel and
hotel sites, instead of just searching one site. Also, YELLOWPAGES.travel
will donate 15% of all net proceeds received from CheapTickets.com and
other major travel sites to multiple charities.
According to company spokesperson, Matt Richards, "If someone is
willing to use CheapTickets.com, Expedia, or any individual travel
website, why not use YELLOWPAGES.travel instead and search the top 12
travel sites at the same time and donate 15% of any transactions performed
to multiple charities. This is a win-win for everyone."
YELLOWPAGES.travel and SearchBoth.com both recently announced that
they will donate 15% of their net proceeds to multiple charitable
organizations such as the American Red Cross, the American Cancer Society
and other non-profit organizations. Users of online search engines, online
travel websites and online YellowPages websites are urged to use
YELLOWPAGES.travel instead of going to the websites directly as this will
generate more revenue for the company and in result the company will
donate more to multiple charities. Users are able to recommend charities
of their choice to the company and vote on which charities should get a
portion of the 15% total donation by visiting
http://YELLOWPAGES.travel/Charity.
Mr. Richards further states, "Our overall revenues are high while our
overhead remains fairly low. Our company and our larger sister company can
afford to donate some of the profits to benefit good causes. We can
comfortably give away 15-20% of our profits while still remaining very
profitable for our shareholders. Major corporations need to take the lead
in times of lower economic growth and slowdown; the YellowPages being one
of the most respected is no different."
About YELLOWPAGES.travel
YELLOWPAGES.travel has found the solution for travelers that are tired
of searching over a dozen travel websites looking for bargains. A tool that
enables users to enter their travel and flight information once and have
the results pages of the major travel sites placed on one screen.
YELLOWPAGES.travel is owned by YellowPages Corporation and managed by
InternetLabz.com; an internet incubation company with popular websites
such as www.SearchBoth.com which places the
top search engines such as Google and Yahoo! and major travel sites such
as Expedia and Orbitz, side by side on one screen and also www.YellowPagesMessenger.com
which is a suite of services such as YellowPages and Dictionary over AOL
and MSN instant messenger using the screen names "FreeYellowPages" and
"MyDictionary."
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