Hartford, CT. - September 20, 2004 - Travel Sciences has partnered with Kim Severini, CTC, of KDS Consulting to spearhead a sales and marketing initiative for Longitude™, a broad-based, multi-faceted, travel creation, distribution and management business solution for industry suppliers.

Travel Sciences CEO Michael Stone, CTC, said, "Severini brings experience in the tour operator, hotel, attractions and airline segments to the Travel Sciences team. Kim knows what the market needs to move forward and she can help us tell our story."

Severini, most recently Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Grand Expeditions, launched KDS Consulting last year. Through KDS, she will be working closely with the tour operator and packaging community to expand the Longitude reach in the marketplace.

"Most of the tour operator and vacation package community is searching for the best solution to answer their need for scalable, adaptable technology to bring their businesses up to speed. This incredible software represents an entirely new and powerful business solution unlike anything currently available in the marketplace" Severini said.

Longitude™ is Travel Sciences' companion solution to Travel Office™, a travel management and distribution enterprise platform for retail travel agencies, and web and Internet travel sellers and distributors. Longitude™ provides travel companies with an entire travel business and management application suite. The product handles accounting and back office, customer relationship management, booking and reservations, contract management, inventory management, dynamic packaging, reporting and statistical utilities. Longitude can also create and manage marketing programs and includes an ROI tool. Both Longitude™ and Travel Office are browser-based, easy-to-use technologies that are designed to lower operating costs and increase sales and margins.

Longitude™ was launched with cruise/tour specialist Uniworld last year. The platform was recently installed at tour company Travcoa, as each of the Grand Expeditions companies plan to adopt the solution in the coming months.

Severini will also work with Travel Sciences in the formulation of a fully hosted Longitude™ offering for small to medium sized travel companies.

"I believe that Travel Sciences offers the great majority of small to mid-sized travel companies the technical ability and resources needed to run their business in today's environment" said Travel Sciences CEO Mike Stone, CTC. "Unfortunately, until now, there hasn't been a solution available that could deliver all of the business requirements in a customized, simple to run, fully integrated system. With Longitude™ that is no longer the case."

Severini is headquartered in Huntington Beach, CA and can be reached at (714) 536-6969 or kimseverini@yahoo.com.

Travel Sciences is a software development and business systems resource for the travel industry. Development offices are located in Hartford, CT with sales and marketing based in Fort Lauderdale, FL. For more information on Travel Sciences and their partners and products, contact Michael Stone at 954-525-5995 or visit www.travelsciences.com.

For More Information Contact:
Monica Kowalski
954-525-5995
mkowalski@travelsciences.com