NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- At a Press Conference at New York City's Flatotel, The Skylink Group President & CEO, Surjit Babra, and SkylinkUS General Director, Fernando Virgolino, met with key members of the consumer and travel press to debut the company's newest division, Skylink Holidays. Building on their more than twenty-five years of experience, expertise, and customer satisfaction in providing air travel opportunities for global travelers, the company's confidence in its ability to provide value for travelers seeking land programs to the highest demand destinations of the world prompted the launch of Skylink Holidays.
"The development of Skylink Holidays as the newest division of our company is an outgrowth of our identification of a need in the marketplace for travel programs that meet travelers' expectations of value, coupled with our unique knowledge and expertise in each area of the world we serve," explained Fernando Virgolino. "With more travelers having had more varied travel experiences, Skylink Holidays is focused on providing outstanding travel programs that reflect value through its buying power in a vast array of destinations worldwide," Virgolino continued. "Our reach is vast!"
Virgolino enumerated global destinations that are in greatest demand, pointed proudly to the quality of the hotels in their programs and pricing that clearly gets the attention of travel buyers. Using the more than 18,000 hotels in their negotiated hotel rate program and buying their air transportation from SkylinkUS in the same fashion that a travel agent would buy from Skylink's air consolidation program, Skylink Holidays creates high quality travel experiences at pricing which, Virgolino said, "can only be described as remarkable!"
"The Highest Demand Destinations," Virgolino explained, "include: every major region in Europe; the "triangle" of India; the Far East including China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Hong Kong; the South Pacific; Australia; New Zealand and Flying Safaris in Africa where tours of the deserts, the wine regions, the gardens and the animal kingdoms of South Africa abound."
"We've put energy into creating experiences for travelers, not just travel arrangements," Virgolino continued. "Once the traveler arrives at the destination, we provide unique opportunities for exploration. With Skylink Holidays, the traveler can experience destinations by plane, such as in the Flying Safari programs in Africa, lake tours by houseboat in Southern India, travel on luxurious trains like India's Palace on Wheels, or avail themselves of our special programs that include Europe's EuroStar. Literally, from Frankfort to Fiji and from the Costa del Sol to Sydney, Skylink Holidays has exactly what the experienced traveler expects from people with the expertise and relationships with travel suppliers to deliver programs that we believe will exceed the traveler's expectations for value," Virgolino stated proudly.
For information and reservations, Skylink Holidays recommends that travelers call their travel agents, visit Skylink Holidays website at: (www.skylinkholidays.com) or call 1-888-359-4339.