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Since April, CCRA International has successfully trained several hundred travel agents on its hotel booking portal, www.CCRAtravel.com, helping to increase their industry knowledge and commissions. CCRA works with hotel chains and leading independent properties to package preferred rate plans for corporate and leisure travel, including internet and preferred rates. Agents booking through CCRA also receive instantaneous financial settlement, a practice unique to online travel booking, which guarantees pre-paid commissions on all bookings. CCRA International conducts about 10 group and private training and orientation sessions each week that primarily focus on how to effectively use the CCRA Travel Agent Booking Portal to search for domestic and international hotel rates and use the net rate calculator to mark-up an agent's commission on bookings, while saving their customers money. "We want to ensure that our clients are receiving the best possible training and education to help them grow their businesses and earn the commissions they deserve," said Patti Free, Vice President of Global Member Services for CCRA International. "We know how important it is that our agent partners feel comfortable using CCRA, and we want to provide them with every opportunity to learn about our portal and ask questions." CCRA trainers also demonstrate how to access reports, cancel reservations, manage accounts and use the additional educational tools available to agents. To better accommodate agent needs, CCRA also offers training sessions on Saturdays and evenings, by appointment. "I enjoyed the CCRA Web training," said a travel agent with Alpha Omega Travel in California. "I'm looking forward to utilizing the tool and building my client base, along with making more commission." The online training sessions give CCRA travel professionals the ability to demonstrate the features of the portal, answer agents' questions or resolve issues by walking through either the agent's screen or the CCRA customer representative's screen, all in real time. CCRA also has agents complete a pre-training survey to customize each individual private training session, in order to present relevant and targeted information in an efficient manner. About CCRA International CCRA International, a OneLink Corporation (OTCBB: OLNK) operating unit, is a highly regarded industry organization focused on providing premium travel-related services to the travel agency community. CCRA International provides travel agents with one of the industry's preferred negotiated rate programs for hotel products. The company negotiates with more than 13,000 hotels on behalf of the travel agent community to provide the lowest negotiated rates and availability to travel agents. Additionally, CCRAtravel.com, a Web-based hotel booking portal powered by OneLink Corporation's booking and settlement service, is available to travel agents for booking GDS, preferred, hotels.com and pre-paid hotel rates for travel agency clients. With more than 65,000 hotel properties around the world, CCRAtravel is the premier hotel booking Web site for travel agents. Travel agency consortia and association partners include Vacation.com, OSSN, IT Group, WESTA, ASTA, NACTA, and Cruise Shoppes, along with many independent travel agencies. More information is available at www.CCRAtravel.com.