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Howard
Lefkowitz
Founder & CEO, One Degree World
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Las
Vegas based
One
Degree World launched
the first of what they say will be hundreds
of revolutionary new travel and
entertainment partner websites today
and all of them are being
built on new gTLDs. One
Degree World (ODW) is a new company
founded by Howard Lefkowitz
(the well-known entrepreneur was
once President and CEO of Vegas.com)
who has put together a management
team that includes executives
who’ve worked for some of the
world’s biggest brands including Wal-Mart,
Google, Caesars, Amazon,
Travelport, American
Airlines and others.
Lefkowitz
said “One Degree World has reimagined
and reinvented travel as a
unique destination experience within
the sites powered by our platform,
taking travel beyond Point A to Point
B to include what happens after you
arrive,
No longer will customers have to
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search multiple websites to plan
their trips, or even their
entertainment and activities in
their home market for that matter.
We’ve developed patent-pending
capabilities for booking everything
from an airline ticket and hotel
room to VIP table service at a club,
restaurant reservations, or a ticket
to a college football game, all
self- contained for the consumer
within each of our partner sites.
It’s a game-changer for the travel
and entertainment industries and
this is just the beginning.”
All
of the ODW sites have corresponding Facebook,
Twitter and Pinterest
accounts. Links to the social sites
can be found on each website. The
company said that each of the
partner websites will include Guaranteed
Best Pricing, Certified
Rate Protector™
(Should
the rate drop post purchase, for the
same dates and terms, the
reservation will be rebooked at the
lower rate and the difference
refunded to the customer. This
is automatic and the customer will
receive an email about their newly
lowered rate and newfound cash) and Curated
Content and Reviews.
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In
addition the company said partner
websites operated by the One Degree
World e-commerce solution can
orchestrate reservations for:
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More
than 300 cities
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More
than 500,000 hotels
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Nearly
900 airlines
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26,000
tours and attractions
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Concert,
sports, theme parks and event
venues globally
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A
myriad of restaurants that
number in the thousands
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Accessibility
in 58 different languages and 93
currencies
It
is certainly an ambitious initiative
and having a proven entrepreneur
like Lefkowitz behind it makes the
One Degree World launch one that
people will be paying close
attention to. It will be a major
test of how well consumers will
receive new gTLD websites.
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