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* Prime Hospitality Corp. will deploy Hotel Data Systems' xenonCRS Enterprise Reservation System at its AmeriSuites and Wellesley Inns & Suites hotels. The system, which is expected to be completed [...]

The dramatic growth of companies that provide Internet-based central-reservation systems on an application-service-provider model has created opportunities for a group of companies that resell those services--and more. 'These companies are [...]

Columbia, Md. -- The Sheraton Petaluma (Calif.) Hotel at the Marina, a Starwood franchisee, has gone live with MICROS Systems' Opera property-management system and Opera sales-and-catering system with full database [...]

National Report--Hotel companies have spent a lot of time and money trying to regain control of their Internet reservations and distribution. They are battling a dizzying array of third-party Internet [...]

National Report--The growth of third-party Internet booking sites has made managing hotel rates and inventory online more complex than ever. There are rate and availability decisions to make for major [...]

BookingCenter, a provider of integrated property management and Internet reservation systems, and WorldRes.com, an online hotel reservation network, developed a seamless, two-way connection between the companies to give hotels the [...]

* Best Inns & Suites streamlined the process of booking a room online at its 130 North American hotels by relaunching its Web site, [...]

* Best Western International opened a reservations center in Glendale, Ariz., to take inbound phone reservations for its 2,300 hotels. The reservations center employs 100 [...]

* InnLink Corp. activated all five Hospitality International brands, comprising more than 250 hotel properties, for voice, Global Distribution System and Internet reservation services. The brands are Scottish Inns and [...]

* Based on a test at five of its six brands, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide recommended TravelCLICK's Hotelligence Reports for all of its properties. The reports provide detailed reservation [...]

* Hyatt Hotels Corp. offers interactive online group booking through a service called e-mmediate meetings, which allows planners to book space, rates and dates for small meetings in real time [...]

* Vagabond Franchise System launched its new Web site, www.vagabondinn.com, which features online reservations using the company's own Internet-booking engine. WorldRes.com had operated the Web site as a private-label [...]

Passkey is the leading processor of group hotel reservations for the $120 billion meetings and convention industry. Passkey provides an ASP platform for creating and managing group housing, allowing hotels, [...]

* VIP International is providing all 93 Candlewood Suites in the United States with Global-Distribution-System connectivity using the SynXis Corp.'s SynXis Agent system. VIP also is handling all voice reservation [...]

* SynXis Corp., a provider of reservation and distribution systems for the hospitality industry, will launch SynXis Agent, an Internet-based central reservation system in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It was [...]

* Extended Stay America renewed its existing contract with Lexington Services for two years and signed on for private label services. Lexington, a subsidiary of Travel Services International, provides reservation [...]

* Boutique Hotel Group's new Internet booking system allows guests to view room rates and availability in real time, book reservations and receive instant confirmation. It provides a seamless real-time [...]

* Marriott International's Marriott.com added an Express Reservations feature and customized content for business and leisure travelers, travel agents and event planners, making it easier and faster to plan [...]

Galileo's new home page gives smaller shops access to the same technology as large agencies When Galileo's developers sat down to create the company's new Web portal, TravelGalileo.com, they decided [...]

* For the business traveler who craves the local edition of his or her favorite newspaper, www.newspaperdirect.com can bring that paper to the guest. The company, which launched in 1999, [...]

LOS ANGELES--When Biztravel.com shook up the travel world in May with its controversial on-time arrival guarantee, it was not known just how other industry players would respond. Many executives dismissed [...]

LOS ANGELES -- As the airline industry continues to promote direct-booking technology to corporations, agency consortiums such as Rosenbluth, Woodside Travel Trust and WorldTravel Partners are responding with new initiatives [...]

Low-fare carriers give agents a new way to sell Europe and clients more options for travel between countries. More Choices, Lower Costs Agents who are looking for a new way [...]

Technology firms are offering new interfaces and alternatives to GDS contracts For years agents have been tied to the green screens and cryptic code of the GDSs for making airline [...]

* Lastminute.com, a provider of last-minute solutions on the Internet, signed deals with Choice Hotels International, Utell and Gran Caribe to promote new inventory from the companies at www.lastminute.com. * [...]

American Express joined the American Hotel & Motel Assn. to promote the association's newest benefit, www.GotRooms.com. Launched earlier this year, GotRooms.com gives AH&MA member properties an opportunity to reach thousands [...]

Accorhotel.com [www.accorhotel.com], the portal for making online reservations in any of Accor's 3,400 hotels, is now fully operational, Accor has connected all its hotels' sites to a mesh network so [...]

GRS Network offers the flexibility of a CRS without the sticky contracts Agents have long relied on GDSs to make airline bookings, and the carrier-owned computer systems have served the [...]

Cendant Internet Group, a unit of Cendant Corp., said the company's subsidiary, WizCom International Ltd., has completed agreements with major hotel chains and reservations companies to provide enhanced services, such [...]

NEW YORK -- An airline trying to act like an agent is nothing new. Most airline reservations agents will ask customers if they wish to book a hotel room or [...]

REZsolutions said it has achieved successful global-distribution system Year 2000 transition test bookings through Galileo/Apollo, Sabre, WORLDSPAN and Amadeus on RezView, its central-reservation [...]

Global Reservation Systems, a new Internet-based travel reservation system, announced that it will provide air-booking capability for selected partner resorts as part of WorldRes.com's custom vacation packages [...]

NetRez, an Internet-based reservation management tool for hotels, is now being used by more than 650 hotels in North and Latin America, bringing the number of users to more than [...]

Looking for an alternative or a seasonal supplement to your in-house reservation operation? JCPenney Telemarketing has been providing reservation services to the lodging industry since 1985. We have the expertise, [...]

Tour operator Select Italy has expanded its list of Italian museums for which it offers advance reservations and/or prepurchased tickets. For the Rome museums, reservations cost $15 plus the entry [...]

Choice Hotels International's Minot, S.D., reservations call center completed a 7,500-square-foot expansion that will accommodate up to 80 new work stations. The center handles telephone reservations for Choice's Quality Inn [...]

Trip.com is leading the field of online agencies that specialize in unmanaged business travel When Englewood, Colo.-based online business travel agency Trip.com launched its site in October 1996, it was [...]

SECAUCUS, N.J. - Utell International, most widely recognized as a global-reservations company, is getting into the marketing and operations business. Its mission is to help hoteliers grow their businesses with [...]

DANBURY, CONN. - Hoteliers wanting to supplement business generated by their current reservation affiliations now can do just that. Roger May, an Australian who founded and now heads Danbury-based International [...]