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Online Travel Corporation PLC 17 July 2000 New Strategic Partnerships with Beeb.com; FHM.com; Breathe.com; Fish4.co.uk; Whatsonwhen.com; Rapido TV; Goldfishguides.com; Alisonathome.com; Telewest Communications Plc; Unison Travel OTC has launched or contracted to launch online travel services with ten new Strategic Partners. This takes OTC's number of Strategic Partners to 39 in the space of 8 months. 29 of these are from the leisure travel, 6 from corporate travel and 6 from concessional travel. This has increased OTC's potential customer base to over 7 million online users. In the last month OTC has secured a new Strategic Partnership with FHM.com, providing a new look halo branded site (www.FHM.com/travel) for their OTC operated travel brand, FHM Travel Direct. OTC has also integrated all of its travel content into the Holiday Channel of the re-launched Beeb.com Web Site (www.beeb.com). In addition, OTC has launched new halo branded sites with lifestyle ISP Breathe.com (www.breathe.com), world-wide events company Whatsonwhen.com (www.whatsonwhen.com) and, in the last month, contracted new Strategic Partnerships with the mutual ISP Blue Carrots (www.bluecarrots.com), classified listings portal fish4 (www.fish.co.uk), TV lifestyle portals Rapido TV (www.rapido.co.uk) and alisonathome.com (www.alisonathome.com), gay and lesbian portal Rainbownetwork.com and credit card and online guides provider goldfishguides.com. OTC has also launched new Digital Television services with Telewest Communications Plc in the UK and Unison, a leading Digital Television provider in Ireland. Chief Executive of OTC, Mark Jones, commented: 'To have signed up so many high quality, well known names in such a short time scale demonstrates that OTC is offering the right breadth and depth of service to our customers. The fact that we have also succeeded in launching so many halo branded sites proves our unique method of marketing is exceeding our expectations.' For further information, please contact: OTC Mark Jones, Managing Director Tel: +44 (0) 20 8255 5521 Robert Falkner, Finance Director Tel: +44 (0) 20 8607 9281 Buchanan Communications Nicola How / Isabel Petre Tel: +44 (0) 20 7466 5000