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helping our 2006 Fundraising Drive.
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Special Appreciation Gifts from
Sponsors
Nine suppliers have very kindly
agreed to provide valuable goods and services to you to
encourage contributions and to reward you for so doing.
Please note that some of the items are in limited supply - when
they have all been given away there will be no more, but we'll
update this list to reflect that fact as soon as it happens.
The suppliers and items currently
being offered are :
Mayer Nudell, Specialized Consulting
Services
A free copy of the most up to date
World Threat Map from
Mayer Nudell, a travel security
consultant.
Mayer is a former US diplomat and an
acknowledged authority on terrorism, crisis management, travel
security, and related international political and national
security affairs. He has many relevant qualifications,
much experience, and has won a range of industry awards for his
work. He has also co-authored two books on travel and
security matters and teaches classes on Terrorism for the GSA's
Interagency Training Center.
All people who contribute $10 or more
will receive one of these via email. These maps normally
sell for $5 each, or a one year subscription is available for
$50.
Uniglobe Accent Travel
A discount on a future cruise of $100
per cabin for cruises of 7+ days or $50 per cabin for cruises of
3-6 days. This applies to all new bookings that are
deposited prior to 31 December 2006. You can travel on
your cruise subsequently; to qualify all you need to do is book
your cruise and get your deposit in by the end of this year.
Uniglobe Accent Travel is obviously a
member of the massive Uniglobe franchise, getting them access to
very good cruise rates to start with. The agency has won
various awards including a local Chamber of Commerce 'Small
Business of the Year' award and a Uniglobe 'Agency of the Year'
award. Their owners, Jim and Marcia Cole, traveled with me
to New Zealand last year, and you can be certain their agency
will look after you and all your travel needs well.
All people who contribute $10 or more
will receive a discount code entitling them to this discount via
email. Plainly this could be worth at least $50
or $100, and more if you're booking more than one cabin.
ProTravelGear.com
Pro Travel Gear - the people who
design the award winning
Plane Quiet and
Solitude
noise cancelling headphones - are giving you back your donation
when you buy a set of Solitude headphones.
The discount amount varies depending on the level of your
support to The Travel Insider (see below). This applies to
all new sales between now and 25 June.
Pro Travel Gear's headphones have
brought a new level of high performance at affordable price to
the market, and have won our annual Grand Prize and Best
Technology Product awards for three years consecutively.
These awards are determined by your voting. Their latest
upgrade to the Solitude was just released this week (May 12) and
offers an even better product than the first Solitude product,
while still holding the same $199.95 price.
All people who contribute more than
$20 will be emailed a discount code good for a $20/$30/$40 or
$50 discount per set of Solitude headphones. The more you
contribute, the larger your discount, and if you buy two or more
sets of Solitudes, you'll actually be massively profiting on the
deal.
Telestial
Telestial are offering a wonderfully
clever little credit card sized device for storing SIMs.
If you're traveling internationally and have multiple SIMs for
your cell phone, this credit card sized piece gives you a
suitable place to hold and protect your spare SIMs.
Telestial is the internet's leading
resource for people when they travel overseas and wish to be
able to use a cell phone in other countries. They sell
unlocked cell phones and a range of prepaid SIMs for use in over
150 countries, making it easy and convenient for you to make and
receive calls pretty much everywhere in the world. And,
for those really out of the way places, they rent or sell
satellite phones as well.
All people who contribute more than
$20 will be offered a choice of a free SIM holder or several
other items. The SIM holder has a retail price of
$5.95.
Mobal
Mobal are offering two different
incentives. The first incentive is a life-time global
roaming SIM that can be used with a GSM cell phone to provide
cell phone service in 140 different countries around the world,
and with no need to ever make prepayments, and with no expiring
balances in your account that you might otherwise lose.
The lifetime SIM would normally cost you $5.
Their second incentive is a 900 MHz
GSM phone, complete with one of their global roaming SIMs.
These phones are reconditioned units and will operate in much of
the rest of the world. It is hard to put a value on these
phones, but obviously it is a very generous offer from Mobal.
Mobal is the only company offering lifetime SIMs that
essentially never expire (most SIMs need you to buy recharges
for them every six months or sometimes more regularly) and with
their excellent world coverage and convenient billing to a
credit card only if and when you use your SIM, they offer a
great solution for world travelers.
All people who contribute more than
$20 will be offered a choice of a free global roaming SIM or
several other items. All people who contribute more than
$40 will have the free 900 MHz GSM phone added to the range of
products they can choose from.
Travelpro Luggage
Travelpro are offering a free
QuickCheck
travel document/ID holder - a convenient pouch that can hang
around your neck, with places for boarding passes, passport, ID,
and a zipped compartment for money. This saves you
juggling a dozen different things as you go through airport
checkpoints.
Travelpro invented the modern
wheel-aboard suitcase, with their first bag being released in
1989. In the 17 years since then, they've made many
enhancements and have massively increased their product line to
cover just about any type of luggage requirement you might have.
Their luggage is widely available in retail stores and on the
internet.
All people who contribute more than
$20 will be offered a choice of a free QuickCheck or several
other items. The QuickCheck travel document/ID holder has
a retail price of $5.99.
Passport Travel Newsletter
Passport are offering a three month
free subscription to their internet based newsletter.
The
Passport
Newsletter is a well established monthly newsletter with a
half monthly supplement that details upmarket travel
destinations, hotels, activities, etc. A quick perusal of
their May issue showed it to be a detailed 10,000 word
publication with three articles of strong personal interest (the
Orient Express, Whisky on the Scottish island of Islay, and an
update on St Petersburg), all of which were well written,
comprehensive, and up to date. Subscribers also get access
to a massive database of past articles and reference material.
All people who contribute $10 or more
will be given this free three month subscription, a $25 value.
Clipper Gear Micro Light
The
Clipper Gear
Micro Light is a convenient slim LED light that can be
affixed to your cell phone or other object you take everywhere
with you, giving you a beam of light any time you need it.
All people who contribute more than
$20 will be offered a choice of a free Micro Light or several
other items. The Clipper Gear Micro Light has
a retail price of $4.95.
Great Alaskan Toursaver
The Great Alaskan Toursaver publisher
is offering free copies of their book.
The
Great Alaskan Toursaver book is crammed full of savings and
bargains for people traveling to Alaska on vacation. They
have lots of two for one discounts - for example on Glacier Bay
cruises, plus discounts on hotel stays, tours, even discounts on
drinks of coffee. In total there are over 140 offers that
- if you were to take advantage of them all - offer over $20,000
in savings. If you (or a friend) are planning a trip to
Alaska this year, then you absolutely must have one of these.
These books are being offered to
people who contribute $100 or more. The retail price of
the book is $99.95.
Solarsharky Design Services
Solarsharky are offering two hours of
their internet design services to be used any way you wish -
creating a banner, optimizing a logo, reviewing/critiquing a
website design, or whatever else you might require.
Solarsharky is the company that did all the design work for
my website. I can't speak too highly of their service and
the high standard of their work. They've subsequently done
projects for several friends and colleagues, all of whom are as
pleased by their work as I am.
The two hours of their time is being
offered to people who contribute $150 or more. Their
casual hourly billing rate is $65/hour (reduces for project
work) making this a $130 value.
Appreciation Gift Award Table
Your Donation |
Special Gifts to
You |
$10 or more |
-
Free World Threat Map from
Mayer Nudell; AND
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$50-100 per cabin cruise
discount from Uniglobe Accent Travel; AND
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Free 3 month internet
subscription to the Passport Travel
Newsletter
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$20 or more |
PLUS
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$20 per set discount
coupon for the purchase of Solitude noise
cancelling headphones from Pro Travel Gear;
AND
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Your choice of a free
Clipper Gear microlight or a Telestial SIM
Holder or a Mobal World SIM
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$30 or more |
PLUS
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$40 or more |
PLUS
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$50 or more |
PLUS
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$65 or more |
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$80 or more |
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$100 or more |
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$150 or more |
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How to Donate
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one-time contribution of any amount you wish, or if you prefer,
please choose one of the 'Subscribe' buttons from the table
below to create an automatic and
voluntary monthly or quarterly contribution (which can be
instantly cancelled at any time by a single button click on the
'Cancel Subscription' button at the bottom).
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Many thanks for your support.
It really does help.

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