While London and Paris remained the two leading markets, Frankfurt moved up to the number three ranking. However, electronic booking growth for the
European hospitality industry continued to be suppressed by the overall
slowdown in global travel. Of the top ten European cities, only Madrid and
Barcelona showed growth over first quarter 2001 for room nights.

The results were compiled from TravelCLICK's comprehensive database, which is the exclusive source of hotel industry electronic distribution data from the Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre, and Worldspan GDSs. TravelCLICK's data also includes consumer online GDS hotel bookings made through many of the major Internet travel sites, such as Expedia, Travelocity.co.uk and Opodo.com.

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"London and Amsterdam showed improved results compared to the fourth quarter of 2001," said Jan Tissera, division vice president for TravelCLICK. "Paris, Stockholm, Munich and Oslo experienced greater losses this quarter, but we expect these markets to show improved results for the remainder of 2002."

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