Travelogix To Debut Web Booking Tool

<H1>Travelogix To Debut Web Booking Tool</H1><H3>by Mary Ann McNulty</H3>In the latest attempt to re-energize Travelogix, its owners plan to debut a Web booking tool on the Internet and a client-server version of its dial-up booking product for corporations by the second quarter of 1996.

Travelogix's new products should be out in the second quarter of this year, said Fredrik Wallenberg, whose family purchased Travelogix about four years ago. In addition to the existing disk-based, dial-up booking service, Travelogix expects to offer consumers a booking tool on the Internet's World Wide Web. For the corporate market, Travelogix expects to offer a version of its disk-based software that can run on client-server networks. Instead of dialing in for booking data, users will be able to access their corporate network.

While the disk product is being marketed to corporations in Italy and Scandinavia, Wallenberg said, executives have postponed marketing to U.S. companies until the two new products are available.

The product launch follows several personnel changes at Travelogix. Robert Forsyth, a software industry veteran formerly with Computer Sciences Corp., recently became chief executive officer, and Bob Atchison, former travel manager at Apple Computer Inc., now heads Travelogix's new Web marketing efforts. Atchison has been working with Travelogix executives as a consultant for about seven months.

Wallenberg denied rumors that Travelogix has outsourced programming-or any work-to Computer Sciences Corp.