"To gauge the value of the advertised deals, I checked the airlines for the price of a round-trip ticket to Jamaica...Then I called tour companies like American Airlines Flyaway Vacations and Air Jamaica Vacations, and visited a number of travel agencies in my neighborhood...The rates differed even for the same resort, depending on whom I talked to. I was getting nowhere until I contacted a company called TourScan. Over the last decade this Connecticut-based travel agency has been amassing data on...Caribbean packages offered by resort chains and tour companies. For a single hotel, they consider as many as 50 different deals, running them through a computer and coming up with the lowest-priced option for each resort.
-Susan Spano,The New York Times

"TourScan (800-962-2080 or 203-655-8091) has specialized in the Caribbean since 1987, and twice a year it compiles information on all the different packages offered by tour operators. Because tour operators often have varying prices for the exact same resort, this information makes bargain-shopping a lot easier. This agency offers the lowdown on 1,800 properties on 56 islands in the Caribbean, Bahamas and Bermuda. The information is available on the Internet at www.tourscan.com."
-Caribbean for Dummies

"To save time comparing the price and value of all the package tours out there, consider calling TourScan Inc. Every season, the company gathers and computerizes the contents of about 200 brochures containing 10,000 different vacations in the Caribbean, The Bahamas, and Bermuda. TourScan selects the best value at each hotel and condo."
-Frommers 97 Caribbean

"Even the smartest shopper could never pick through all the vacation packages....to the rescue comes TourScan....TourScan lists the best value, sometimes a savings of as much as eight hundred dollars a week per person."
-Cosmopolitan Magazine

"Identical vacation packages using the very same hotel are priced to the public at widely differing levels, depending on the tour operator from whom they are obtained....(TourScan) deftly extracted the best package values in dozens of categories."
-Travel authority Arthur Frommer

"Finding the most economical tour can be a laborious and time-consuming task. A new travel service that takes some of the effort out of the selection process is TourScan, Inc."
-Birnbaum's Caribbean 1993

"Confused about islands-in-the-sun vacation junkets? We don't blame you. There are at least 10,000 package deals available, and sorting out what's hot from what's not is a tough task. Enter TourScan, a travel agency... that specializes in the Caribbean, the Bahamas and Bermuda."
-Playboy Magazine

"Ten Ways to Save Money. Ride on a package deal. Tour operators who buy airfare and accommodations in bulk at substantial discounts often get a combined air/hotel rate for less than what you would get on your own. The Caribbean Travel Service (TourScan) specializes in finding the best package deals to the Caribbean, Bahamas and Bermuda and guarantees the lowest price."
-Fielding's Caribbean

"One excellent source is TourScan, Inc., a one-stop travel shop that sells, direct to the public, more than 15,000 Caribbean packages, from the least to the most expensive, for all kinds of interests, most containing hotel and airfare... Attesting that his staff checks out each resort personally, President Arthur Mehmel promises savings of up to several hundred dollars, and says it makes the Caribbean affordable, even on islands with a reputation for being pricey. "
-Fodor's Affordable Caribbean

"TourScan (800-962-2080) offers a computerized listing of choice vacation packages in Puerto Rico and the rest of the Caribbean and can make all necessary arrangements."
-New York Magazine

"TourScan comparison-shops to find the most reasonable package at each hotel and the most reasonable tour operator to book it, saving travelers "up to $800 for the same flight, room and features!"... And since about 70 percent of TourScan's package deals are land only packages with airfares the company has added on, travelers can depart from their hometowns and include flights to one of the major Caribbean gateways in the bargain."
-Caribbean Travel & Life Magazine.



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