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Holiday Direct is pleased to announce the Travel Cash card has now been launched to member agents. The travel cash card is a preloaded cash card that can be used to withdraw cash from TMs. It is also accepted as payment for goods and services worldwide, which means people do not have to bother with traveler’s cheques.

Holiday Directs agents will be able to offer this service to the customer as from the 15th March. The customers can simply load as much money as they like to the card before they travel abroad and then enjoy the benefit of being in total control of their money wherever they are in the world.

Travel card benefits:

It will be used at nearly 1 million ATM’s worldwide
Can be used like a debit card but within the local currency.
Replacement cash will be sent if card is lost or stolen
The card is re-loadable
Customers get to budget for the holiday spending money in advance.

With the cards looking to be the way forward for traveler’s it may just be the end of the traveler’s cheque is on the cards………….

Holiday Direct have seen the groups turnover increase by 29% at the start of 2006. Operations director Graham Chuter says ” the turnover so far this year has been excellent and this is due to our number of members expanding quicker than ever before. Dyanmic packaging has made a big difference with our independant agents gaining an advantage over the tradiontal travel agents. The most pleasing fact are the number of reapeat customers we are getting, this shows our customer service is excellent and shows it is still important to the general public even with intent sales increasing in the travel industry”.

Holiday Direct hopes the growth of the travel contiues to grow throughout 2006 and it continues to grow at the same pace as it has set so far this year.