MADSearch Site for Planning Meetings and Business Travel Adds HotelView Internet Video Tours to Newly Launched Site
POMPANO BEACH, Fla., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- MADSearch (Meeting and Destination Search), a comprehensive search engine for the meeting planning industry, is adding hotel video tours produced by HotelView to its site at madsearch.com under a recently reached agreement between the two Internet companies.
A wholly owned subsidiary of Visual Data Corporation (Nasdaq: VDAT - news), HotelView produces high-quality hotel video tours for the Internet and as sales tools for lodging establishments. The two- to four-minute video tours can be accessed from HotelView's member hotel sites, the HotelView site at hotelview.com , as well as the recently announced ''Travel Channel'' on broadcast.com and through a distribution network of more than 650 travel, leisure and business Web links including MADSearch.
''MADSearch is a convenient and comprehensive tool for meeting planners, especially with the added option of seeing hotels in full-motion narrated video,'' says David Chestler, general manager of HotelView Corporation. ''HotelView benefits from this partnership by gaining access to MADSearch's extensive portfolio of quality meeting properties. Meanwhile, our hotel clients benefit from enhanced exposure, greater distribution and direct access to meeting professionals -- translating into little advertising waste as compared to traditional print and direct mail advertising.''
The addition of HotelView to MADSearch's web site allows meeting and travel planners to have a site inspection from their offices. It saves time and money and eliminates the need to travel.
MADSearch is a one-stop international web site that assists planners in selecting a destination from over 4,300 detailed profiles of properties worldwide and offers the auxiliary services needed for their meeting. This commission-free service allows access to 90 percent of the information necessary to plan a successful event.
Meeting planners can use MADSearch to find hotel dates and rates, last- minute pricing specials, view an online color brochure of the properties that includes space layout and a sample of catering menus and information about local and international suppliers such as transportation and A/V companies.
''MADSearch is easy to maneuver and allows you to literally go from one part of the world to another in a matter of minutes,'' said Madeline Daryadel, president of MADSearch. ''HotelView's cutting-edge technology is a welcome addition to the site and provides another media for meeting planners to utilize as they design their next successful event.''
Visual Data Corporation is a multi-media content producer, marketer and distributor of advertising products and consumer-based portfolio libraries for use on the Internet and eventually, Interactive Television. HotelView Corporation, a subsidiary of Visual Data Corporation, combines Visual Data's digital media technology and superior travel-related distribution network to promote and advertise hotels via sight, sound and motion at a fraction of the cost of traditional media. The video tour is accessed through the hotel's own web site using either existing footage or new footage produced in-house by HotelView that is available for use by the hotel's sales force.
For more information about HotelView, contact HotelView General Manager David Chestler at 954/917-6655 or toll-free 800/468-8139. For more information on MADSearch, simply visit the site at madsearch.com or call 305-690-9880.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, which involve numerous risks and uncertainties. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including those set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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SOURCE: MADSearch
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