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Beaches Resorts Teams up with GlobalBrenda!

February 3, 2003-Finally! A major travel brand known for its expertise in family travel has expanded its product marketing efforts to also cater to single parents. Beaches resorts is eliminating its single supplement fee during the months of May, September (Single Parents' Month), October and half of August (24th to 31st.) Amazingly, that promotion can be combined with the current savings already available like the "Beaches is for Everyone" promotional discounts that offer up to 35% off rack rates at select resorts.

"Regularly, my readers ask what all-inclusive Caribbean resorts I recommend. Until now, I have hesitated because none of the resorts catered to single parent families' needs," said Brenda Elwell, author of The Single Parent Travel Handbook and managing editor of SingleParentTravel.net, a Web site and newsletter. "By definition, the single parent is a working parent. Traditional double parent vacations are structured to get rid of the kids so the parents can have couple time, but the single parent always winds up as the 'odd man out' stuck somewhere in the space between 'family couple' and 'swinging single.'"

Waving the single supplement is not all that Beaches is doing. Beginning February 1st, added to its already jam packed schedule of family activities, every Beaches Family Resort will host a Tuesday night "Single Parents Welcome Reception" so that single parent families can mingle. Every Thursday night, a "Single Parent Social Cocktail" and "Kid's Movie Night" will take place simultaneously, so the kids can be kids and the parents can, well, be single. "Beaches new programming is ideal. It allows single parents to get to know other non-traditional families and the adult-conversation starved parents to get some adult social time," adds Ms. Elwell, who provided advice to Beaches on how to address the single parent market.

Beaches resorts is also sponsoring The Single Parent Travel Handbook's U.S. and Canadian book tour. "Vacationing is an experience that all children should have." Stated Maggie Rivera, Director of Public Relations for Beaches Resorts. "The Single Parent Travel Handbook is an ideal starting place for single parents to plan the perfect vacation. We look forward to supporting the book tour so that we can get the word out about this wonderful new tool and the options available to Single Parents like our Special Savings and Single Parent Friendly Months (SPF Months.)" The Single Parent Travel Handbook tour will commence the weekend of April 5th and 6th with signings at the Carlson Wagon-Lit travel agency in Arnold, MD and the Barnes & Noble in Annapolis, MD. (For more detail about the book tour, the book or single parent travel, visit www.GlobalBrenda.com and www.SingleParentTravel.net .)

Brenda Elwell: Author, Entrepreneur, Travel Advisor
A veteran of over thirty years experience in the travel industry and a worldwide adventurer, Brenda Elwell has lived abroad and traveled to over 60 countries and 45 states, half of them as a single parent with her two kids in tow. Ms. Elwell holds a B.A. in languages from Colby College. Her work has been praised by her readers and the New York Times, Rudy Maxa's Savvy Traveler radio show, Travel Weekly, Time Magazine, Washington Post, Frommers.com, Parents Magazine, MSNBC as well as other media. Addicted to adventurous travel to remote and exotic places, Ms. Elwell is at home anywhere on the planet.

Beaches Resorts
The first Beaches Resort - Beaches Negril - opened in 1997, in Negril, Jamaica, welcoming singles, couples and families of all ages. Since then, another four resorts have joined the Beaches Resorts portfolio: Beaches Sandy Bay also located in Negril, Jamaica, Beaches Turks & Caicos Resort & Spa, in Providenciales, Turks & Caicos and Beaches Boscobel Resort & Golf Club (opened July 2002 in Ocho Rios, Jamaica and Grande Sport Villa Resort and Spa by Beaches Resorts (For adults ages 16 and older) also located in Ocho Rios, Jamaica.

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