Azumano Travel and TheBigDay.com Join to Expand Honeymoon and Special Event Travel Opportunities

Azumano Travel and TheBigDay.com have come together in a joint business venture. The new relationship combines Azumano's travel industry knowledge with TheBigDay's high-technology expertise to better serve honeymoon and romantic travel customers. TheBigDay has the leading honeymoon registry on the market with over 30,000 couples registered from over 126 countries.

Portland, OR (PRWeb) November 27, 2006 - Azumano Travel and TheBigDay.com have announced a unique joining of their business strengths that combines Azumano's retail travel expertise and their planning, sales and marketing of travel packages with the leading internet software technology of TheBigDay, and its TheBigDay honeymoon gift registry, and in Q1 '07 an anniversary registry will be available.

The new relationship between Azumano and TheBigDay will result in both companies significantly increasing sales of honeymoon and romance travel packages. TheBigDay generates many thousands of high-quality; online travel leads through their internet engine and their lead management tools.

TheBigDay started an online travel agency two years ago, and immediately was able to convert their leads into honeymoon travel sales. Last year TheBigDay Travel booked more than 2000 honeymoon packages through travel agents working for TheBigDayTravel. Azumano and TheBigDay have formed a joint venture. Azumano Travel will now manage the TheBigDay Travel agents, and the TheBigDay Travel's travel leads, and will convert the leads into travel sales. This will expand the honeymoon, romance and leisure sales segment of Azumano's consumer business. Azumano will also use the proprietary software technology which has been developed by TheBigDay.

This new relationship will allow TheBigDay to focus its business development with key leadership travel, cruise and hotel industry companies that can use TheBigDay software technology and the internet marketing of its lead management and online gift registry tools.

TheBigDay honeymoon gift registry allows couples to plan and afford more spectacular honeymoon getaways through the TheBigDay online honeymoon gift registry, which is the largest in the world. TheBigDay is an Oregon-based company, founded in 2001, and has registered more than 30,000 engaged couples from 126 countries. Couples go the TheBigDay.com internet site and register for honeymoon gifts like airfare, hotel and travel expenses, sunset cruises, dinners, etc. -- just as they might register for place-settings and toasters using traditional registries. Then their friends and family go to TheBigDay site to purchase honeymoon activities as wedding gifts instead of china and flatware. The average registry at TheBigDay produces more than $2,000 in honeymoon activities for each registered couple, which means the couples are spending 30% more on their honeymoons.

Azumano Travel, also headquartered in Oregon, is the largest independently owned travel agency in Oregon and the Northwest. Based on the joint venture by the two companies, Rena Harris has been named the manager of TheBigDay Travel which will remain a stand-alone entity, focusing on honeymoon and romantic travel bookings and fulfillment generated by online leads produced by TheBigDay website and other online marketing done by TheBigDay.

Sho Dozono, president of Azumano, stated: "This is an outstanding opportunity to combine the high-touch travel industry knowledge we have at Azumano with the high-tech expertise offered by TheBigDay.com. With more and more couples going to the internet to book their honeymoon travel, our joining together will give couples the exposure to the leading honeymoon gift registry and the travel experts at Azumano."

Terry Beard, co-founder and CEO of TheBigDay, said "The couples using TheBigDay will now have more travel options available through our association with Azumano and their honeymoon destination specialists. Importantly, it will allow us to concentrate TheBigDay on the tremendous interest in the travel industry in the unique easy-to-use software planning and lead tracking tools that we have developed and are in demand in the travel industry."

In May of 2006, Azumano Travel, an American Express Representative, was named one of nation's "Top 35 Travel Agencies" (#12) because of its size and the volume of business it generates ($160 million for 2005).

In 2004, TheBigDay was named the Oregon Better Business Bureau "Business of the Year" for Innovative Business Practices.

For more information, please visit www.thebigday.com.

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