Travelex has today announced its prepaid travel card Cash Passport is set for strong growth as it joins forces with Thomas Cook travel agents in UK & Northern Ireland.

The Cash Passport will be available through Thomas Cook's network of 806 high street stores from November. The Travelex Cash Passport gives customers access to local currency from one of more than one million global Visa ATMs as well as being accepted by Visa Electron merchants throughout the world.

David Sear, Divisional Managing Director, Travelex Outsourcing added: "For sometime now, we have seen consumer interest and usage of prepaid travel cards rise - we've now got the right product with the right distribution and we're confident that we will really see sales of the card rise. The size of the Visa acceptance network sets the Cash Passport apart from our prepaid competitors. We are excited to be able to offer Thomas Cook's customers the benefits of using our card."

Mark Nancarrow Managing Director - Financial Services, Thomas Cook Group plc added: "Ensuring the products we sell to our customer is of the highest standard is key to signing any new deals. The 'holiday wallet' is an important part of anyone's holidays and at Thomas Cook we want to be able to offer the widest range of options for people for when they go away. The fact that the Visa card has a truly global acceptance - and the emergency assistance Travelex offers for users of the card - makes this a perfect choice for us to offer our customers."

The Cash Passport Visa card is reloadable for three years and is available in EUR USD and GBP.

Travelex is the largest global distributor of prepaid travel cards with global usage growing by more than 30 per cent in 2007. PIN and signature protection and global Emergency Assistance - are also attracting security conscious travellers.

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For more information please contact Laura Zobel, Lousie Ellis or Zoe Hatton at Lawton. 02380 838 500, laura.zobel@lawton.co.uk; louise.ellis@lawton.co.uk or zoe.hatton@lawton.co.uk

Notes to Editors

The Cash Passport was previously successfully sold through Going Places and under the new deal will be available through Thomas Cook’s new network of stores – incorporating Thomas Cook and Going Places.

About Thomas Cook Group plc

Thomas Cook Group plc was formed on 19 June 2007 by the merger of Thomas Cook AG and MyTravel Group plc. The new company is one of the world’s leading leisure travel groups with sales around £8 billion (€12 billion), 19 million customers, around 33,000 employees, a fleet of 97 aircraft, a network of over 3,000 owned or franchised travel stores and a number of hotels and resort properties. It has operations in four regions: UK & Ireland; Continental Europe (Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia); Northern Europe (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland) and North America (Canada and USA); and German airlines operating under the Condor brand.

About Travelex

Travelex is the world’s largest foreign exchange specialist. Since its formation, Travelex has evolved from being an innovative bureau de change operator into a dynamic, pioneering and diversified worldwide money business. Its wide variety of consumer and business services, together with its rapid growth and unique entrepreneurial culture, have provided the platform for the emergence of Travelex today as the world-leading company in its field.

Travelex is also the world’s largest provider of outsourced travel money and related fulfillment services for banks, financial institutions and travel agencies. Through its world-leading automation Travelex is able to process over three million orders annually. Travelex offers customers a full range of delivery channel options including telephone and web-based ordering.

www.travelex.com | www.cashpassport.com