Generally, travel insurance is sold in packages, combining various categories of coverage.
Joaquin Martinez, president of Gazebo, says his company is selling land packages, combining hotels, tickets to games and local transportation.
Mr. Katz said Cendant would feature packages combining air, hotel and car rental on which it can make higher markups than on typical travel reservations.
The broadband war will intensify later this year with the launch of so-called "triple play" packages combining broadband, telephony and TV from the likes of BSkyB and BT.
FOURSOMES WANTED -- Burroughs & Chapin Golf Management, which owns seven golf courses in the Myrtle Beach, S.C., area, has packages combining accommodations and greens fees.
The much-hyped "quad play" idea – bundled packages combining home phone, broadband, mobile and TV – may finally have come of age.
The online travel agencies have also begun to focus on discount packages combining flights, hotels and rental cars in various ways.
This month, Seville's city hall and the local hospitality industry announced a campaign, Saborea Sevilla (Savor Seville), to entice tourists with packages combining hotels and restaurant meals.
The government's fiscal stimulus packages, combined with the contracting economy (which reduces tax revenue), will cause the budget deficit to widen in 2009.
