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Strategies & Market Trends : Meristar Hotels & Resorts (MMH) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: professor who wrote (13)	7/6/1999 7:20:00 PM
From: Bob Larsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21

Wake up people!! News out... Travelscape.com Teams With MeriStar Hotels & Resorts Travelscape.com to Offer Travelers Online Access to More Than 200 MeriStar Hotels & Resorts Properties Across the United States, Canada and the Caribbean July 6, 1999 08:01 AM LAS VEGAS, July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Travelscape.com RSVN , the online travel site that guarantees the best discount prices in hotel reservations and air-hotel packages, and MeriStar Hotels & Resorts, Inc. MMH , the nation's largest independent, hotel operating company, have entered a multi-year agreement to offer travelers a convenient way to book reservations online through Travelscape.com's easy to use "Click.Less" architecture. Under the agreement, Travelscape.com will feature more than 200 of MeriStar's full-service hotels and vacation resorts on its web site and create individual hotel profiles for each property. Travelscape.com will be a preferred wholesale provider for MeriStar Hotels & Resorts offering special rates to its travel customers. The companies' strategic relationship allows Travelscape.com to offer extremely competitive rates to travelers at a multitude of MeriStar's well-known hotels and resorts across the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. The agreement enables MeriStar to leverage Travelscape.com's distribution channels and gain immediate access to the expanding universe of customers who purchase travel services online. "By partnering with MeriStar, Travelscape.com will now offer travelers a broader array of accommodation options in our existing markets and the opportunity to stay at upscale resorts in a variety of attractive new vacation destinations," said Erick Rodriguez, Travelscape.com's executive vice president of product development. "As a result, we believe the agreement will allow both companies to capture a wider share of the market for online travel services." "Our partnership with Travelscape.com significantly broadens MeriStar's reach in the rapidly growing market for online travel services," said MeriStar Hotels & Resorts chairman and chief executive officer Paul Whetsell. "With MeriStar's abundant vacation offerings and Travelscape.com's competitive pricing and easy to use web site, we're confident that this combination will be a 'win-win' for travelers." About MeriStar Hotels MeriStar Hotels & Resorts leases or manages 216 hotels with 45,313 rooms in 34 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and the U.S. Virgin Islands. MeriStar is the nation's largest independent operator of Hilton, Sheraton, Radisson and Westin hotels. For more information about MeriStar Hotels & Resorts, Inc., visit the company's web site: www.meristar.com . About Travelscape.com Travelscape.com is a leading online travel wholesaler headquartered in Las Vegas, Nev. Travelscape.com guarantees the best discount rates available in hotel and air-hotel packages and strives to be the most-efficient, full-service travel site online. Its proprietary Click.Less architecture reduces booking time to mere minutes, all in just five easy steps. The company's travel partners include Doubletree, Hilton, Marriott, Westin, American Airlines, America West, United Airlines, Delta, AT&T Worldnet, Mapquest, Earthlink, Doubleclick, and The New York Times. For more information, visit www.travelscape.com . SOURCE Travelscape.com end