Leading Tour Operator to Ireland Launches www.sceptreireland.com With FDS Leisure Travel E-commerce Platform

June 9, 2003 - Redwood Shores, California: Sceptre Ireland, a Long Island, N.Y.-based tour operator specializing in travel to Ireland, has launched its website www.sceptreireland.com with EasyWebT, the new dynamic packaging and travel e-commerce platform from Fourth Dimension Software (FDS). EasyWeb is an integrated Internet booking engine and customizable web front-end for CONTOUR®, FDS' enterprise travel management and distribution platform. Sceptre Ireland has been using CONTOUR to manage all reservations and inventory processes for its full line of tours, packages and other products since December 2002.

Sceptre Ireland's re-launched website features the company's distinct branding and provides booking engines for consumers as well as retail travel agents. Website users may select from the tour operator's escorted tours, packages, consolidated airfares and rich portfolio of country inns, bed & breakfasts and other distinctive accommodation options to Ireland. Website customers may also store selected products and itineraries in a shopping cart and maintain a personal profile with travel history and preferences.

All online bookings are transacted in real time against the CONTOUR reservations and inventory database, enabling Sceptre Ireland call center staff to immediately track online bookings and support website customers.

The new website of Sceptre Ireland also features two new web-based tools from FDS:
1) EasyWeb VacationFinderT - an enhanced dynamic packaging tool that delivers tailored vacation options in a single click. Visitors to the website select from a range of vacation criteria, such as vacation type, travel dates, departure and arrival cities, destinations within Ireland and lodging type (hotel, inn, B&B, castle, cottage, guesthouse, etc.), and with just one click VacationFinder returns a series of customized itineraries with the lowest pricing options available only from Sceptre Ireland.
2) Private Label Agent Sites - travel agency partners of Sceptre Ireland may offer their own co-branded Ireland booking engine on their own agency website. The Sceptre Ireland EasyWeb platform automatically tracks full agency commissions and overrides.

"E-commerce has become a pivotal force in travel distribution, and in today's competitive environment travel companies must be able to serve their customers where, when and how their customers want," said Bert Accomando, president and CEO of Sceptre Ireland. "With this new website built upon an already robust reservations system from FDS, we can take advantage of important trends in online travel and better distribute our complex leisure products on the Web. And most importantly, we can better serve our customers."

"We are extremely proud to have such a prominent tour operator as Sceptre Ireland as first CONTOUR customer to go live with EasyWeb," said Jacob Gluz, president and CEO of FDS. "While online travel has surged over the last several years, packages, tours and multi-component itineraries have been relative laggards in electronic distribution, in large part because the available technology has met the needs of neither consumers, travel agents, nor the tour operators serving them. We believe Sceptre Ireland will be a leading example of the powerful new proposition FDS is offering to the leisure travel community: a truly integrated leisure travel management and distribution platform in CONTOUR and EasyWeb."

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About Fourth Dimension Software Founded in 1981, Fourth Dimension Software (FDS) is a software development and services company for the global travel industry. Its travel management and distribution solutions support the full range of travel providers, including tour operators, large retailers, wholesalers, Internet outlets, and independent travel vendors. With FDS technology, travel providers can offer reservations and inventory management of complex travel products, dynamic and flexible packaging, call center and online travel distribution, and comprehensive business automation. Each year several million reservations are booked using FDS products. For more information, visit www.4ds.com.

About Sceptre Ireland Sceptre Ireland was founded in 1980 and over the past 22 years has grown into the largest United States tour operator to Ireland. Family-owned and operated company, Sceptre offers the largest menu of escorted motorcoach tours, self-drive packages, a portfolio of golf packages, and the best airfare prices to Ireland. Sceptre Ireland recently expanded its product to include 21 new gateways around the country, over 25 total, and has a strong partnership Aer Lingus, the national airline of Ireland. The company has offices in New York as well as Shannon and Dublin, in Ireland, allowing Sceptre to give unparalleled support to travelers nationwide. For more information, visit www.sceptreireland.com.

Media Contacts
Douglas Quinby
Director, Marketing & Communications
Fourth Dimension Software
(404) 760-9182
dquinby@4ds.com

Bert Accomando
President & CEO
Sceptre Ireland
(516) 881-3301
bert@sceptreireland.com