GTREX Capital Announces First TOURCO Bookings Through Global Travel Exchange’s Voyager Network Travel Distribution Solution Issued Tuesday May 29, 11:11 am ET TEMECULA, Calif.--(MARKET WIRE)--May 29, 2007--GTREX Capital, Inc. (OTC BB: GRXI) a holding company with subsidiaries doing business in the travel industry, today announced that the company’s “direct connect” travel technology solution for TOURCO, a leading tour operator in the eastern United States and Canada, is now accepting bookings. Customers are now connecting into TOURCO’s XML inventory via Global Travel Exchange’s OTA (Open Travel Alliance) compliant Voyager Network travel distribution platform. Voyager Network is a more efficient and cost-effective connection between customers and the tour company, which includes packages and accommodations. Voyager Network’s direct connect solution offers vastly improved services while reducing distribution costs for the supplier. “TOURCO is Global Travel Exchange’s first completed direct connect tour company customer, and we are pleased to have reached the point where bookings now are being accepted through the system,” stated Ron Lindsay, president of GTREX Capital and Global Travel Exchange. “Global Travel Exchange receives transaction fees for each booking made through the Voyager Network, so this milestone is particularly important as part of GTREX Capital’s plan to increase the revenues of Global Travel Exchange and build value for GTREX Capital shareholders.” For 27 years, TOURCO has been the specialist in travel to the eastern United States and Canada, providing fly/drive tours, coach tours, hotels, inns, bed and breakfasts and services. TOURCO’s service spectrum includes scheduled-departure motor coach tours from Boston, New York, Washington DC, Atlanta, and Toronto, Canada; escorted motor coach series; preplanned Fly Drive programs; FIT hotels; city and resort stays; inn and character property programs; multilingual tours; golf programs; customized itineraries; meet and greet services; transfers; optional tour offerings and comprehensive passenger documents/guide books. Headquartered in Nobleboro, Maine and with offices in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Toronto, TOURCO’s geographic expertise encompasses the South, Mid Atlantic, Eastern Canada, Canadian Maritimes, New York and New England. TOURCO’s average annual operation includes more than 800 group tours, hosting in excess of 80,000 visitors (including 40,000 FIT passengers). Global Travel Exchange has developed and implemented several XML (Extensible Markup Language) interfaces, in accordance with OTA (Open Travel Alliance) specifications, to ensure a direct connection between the client and the suppliers of travel services. Global Travel Exchange translated the tour company’s data to OTA-compliant XML as part of the preparations for the direct connection through Voyager. XML, a cross-platform software and hardwareindependent tool for storing and transmitting information, is becoming the standard method to communicate data between servers and between servers and browsers. Global Travel Exchange’s high-quality direct connection provides clients with access to higher quality information, translating into more convenience for travelers and travel arrangers. To sign up to receive information by email directly from GTREX Capital whenever new press releases, investor newsletters, SEC filings, or other information is disclosed, please visit http://www.gtrexcapital.com/investor.php. About TOURCO In 2000, TOURCO celebrated its 20th anniversary as the east coast’s premier inbound specialist. TOURCO’s existing portfolio of travel products includes fly drive tours, FIT and motorcoach tours, city packages, gateway services, FIT hotels and inns, resorts and character properties, escorted coach and minivan tours and cultural tours. TOURCO Territory, diverse and distinctive, comprises the American South, Mid-Atlantic and New England and Eastern and Maritime Canada, with more gateways than any other North American destination. About GTREX Capital, Inc. GTREX Capital, Inc. (http://www.gtrexcapital.com) is a holding company with subsidiaries doing business in the travel industry. Global Travel Exchange, Inc. (www.gtrex.com), a GTREX Capital subsidiary, has launched its Voyager Network travel distribution platform, which provides a service that enables direct access to reservation systems of major travel suppliers such as airlines, cruise lines, hotels, car rental companies and providers of other travel amenities. GTREX Capital recently acquired all of the outstanding shares of Global Travel Partners, a Nevada corporation that owns 100% of AsiaWorld Travel Vancouver, Ltd., and Dominion Pacific Travel, two British Columbia-based travel companies.
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