12% TRAVEL AGENT COMMISSION

Wimco, the Caribbean vacation villa experts, offers 12% travel agent commission for bookings in January.

-- NEWPORT, RI, December 2001 -- WIMCO, the Caribbean villa vacation experts, announces that it will offer a 12 percent commission to travel agents who book from WIMCO’s extensive inventory of Caribbean villas and distinctive hotels by Jan. 31, 2002. This increased commission applies to any reservation taking place in the Caribbean from now through Nov. 1, 2002.

“What we’re asking agents to do is to register at WIMCO online at www.wimco.com/ta in order to secure this commission opportunity,” said Janis Gordon, Director of Marketing and Sales.

Additionally, she said, travel agents will automatically be entered in WIMCO’s “Win a Free Villa on St. Barts Sweepstakes” which runs in January.

WIMCO offers over 1,000 luxury vacation villas and distinctive hotels internationally including 690 villas on 10 Caribbean islands (St. Barts, Barbados, Mustique, Nevis, Anguilla, St. Martin and others) and in such select destinations as Italy’s Umbria and Tuscany and France’s St. Tropez and Provence.

For further information write WIMCO, P.O. Box 1461, Newport, RI 02840; Tel: 401/849-8012; Fax 401/847-6290, or visit the website at www.wimco.com.