Wednesday December 13, 2000 16:08 ET
Radisson Hotels & Resorts Chooses Visual Datas HotelView(R); Leading Hotelier to Endorse and Promote HotelView(R) to Its 420 Properties
POMPANO BEACH, Fla., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- HotelView Corp., a subsidiary
of Visual Data Corporation (Nasdaq: VDAT), a leading full service provider of
media, streaming content and production solutions for the Internet, and
Radisson Hotels & Resorts, one of the world's leading hospitality companies,
today announced an agreement whereby Radisson will endorse and promote
HotelView(R)'s full motion, streaming video vignettes to its
420 corporate-owned, managed and franchised hotel and resort properties
located throughout the world. Seven Radisson hotels have already signed on to
participate in the HotelView program.
""Our new alliance with HotelView represents an important step forward in
our larger corporate initiative to more effectively harness the power of the
Internet to promote new bookings,"" said Gino Giovannelli, Director of
Interactive Marketing of Radisson Hotels & Resorts. ""The inclusion of
HotelView's professionally produced video tours on each of our property web
sites will make it even easier for travelers and travel agents to do business
with Radisson, providing an innovative tool that helps them to readily see the
quality and value offered at each of our locations. We intend to make every
effort possible to ensure that all of our properties participate in
HotelView's leading edge service.""
""We are very pleased to become aligned with Radisson, one of the hotel
industry leaders,"" said David Chestler, general manager for HotelView. ""Being
chosen as a marketing partner by a company with their immense industry stature
represents an important endorsement of the tremendous value we offer to hotels
and resorts. We applaud their effort to support participation in our program,
which is an aggressive step that we believe will be rewarded in the
marketplace. Radisson now heads a growing list of hospitality companies who
recognize that HotelView will allow them to reach out to Internet users in an
effective, yet cost efficient manner.""
About Radisson Hotels & Resorts
Radisson Hotels & Resorts (http://www.radisson.com) currently has
420 locations in 56 countries. Radisson is a division of Carlson Hospitality
Worldwide, a global leader in hospitality services encompassing more than
1,300 hotel, resort, restaurant and cruise ship operations in 79 countries.
About HotelView
HotelView Corp. produces high-quality hotel ""vignettes"" exclusively for
the Internet that take viewers on a compelling interactive video tour of the
property. A sales aid for travel and meeting planning professionals, a travel
resource for consumers and a marketing tool for hoteliers, the videos are
strategically distributed on the Internet through an extensive network of
travel-, leisure- and business-related Web sites that can be reached from
various sources on the Web such as Yahoo!(R), MADSearch, All-Hotels and
RoadRunner among others. They are also accessible through the featured
hotel's own web site and the HotelView(R) library at hotelview.com.
HotelView is a subsidiary of Visual Data Corporation, a leading full
service provider of media, streaming content and production technology
solutions for the Internet and soon Interactive Television. Visual Data's
extensive video libraries (http://www.vdat.com) cover a wide range of topics,
including travel, business information, medicine and healthcare. Through its
subsidiary EDnet, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: EDNT), Visual Data has established
extensive contacts throughout the motion picture and recording industries.
Visual Data's current business relationships include PR Newswire, Akamai,
Pegasus, Yahoo!; NBCi, RoadRunner, Intelihealth and New River Technologies.
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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