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on New �Internet Hotelligence� Report
CHICAGO, (October 21, 2002) - Ray Cohen, president and co-CEO of TravelCLICK, Inc., the leading provider of data solutions to the travel industry, today announced that the company has signed an agreement with Dallas-based Pegasus Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PEGS) to launch a new service: �Internet Hotelligence.� This new report will aggregate Internet reservations data to provide individual hotel properties with competitive aggregated booking performance, distribution, and revenue management information from Web-based channels. Processing tens of thousands of Internet bookings per day, it�s estimated that Pegasus is the largest processor of hotel Internet reservations in the world. When completed in early 2003, this new Internet Hotelligence report is expected to be the most comprehensive competitive benchmarking tool available to the hotel industry for assessing and managing performance in the $5.5 billion Internet hotel booking marketplace. Under the agreement, TravelCLICK will be responsible for marketing and distributing the new product throughout the global hotel industry. TravelCLICK�s current Hotelligence report provides hotels with aggregated competitive information on electronic bookings via 450,000 travel agent terminals worldwide through the Galileo, Sabre, Worldspan, and Amadeus GDSs. It also provides information on a number of Internet sites that are powered by the GDSs. The new Internet Hotelligence will offer more robust data from many more Internet booking sources, taking advantage of Pegasus� unparalleled direct access to thousands of Internet travel sites that are today �Powered by Pegasus�.� As a leader in this area, Pegasus provides the thousands of sites in its Online Distribution Network with direct Internet booking connections to more than 44,000 properties around the world, delivering comprehensive hotel property information and online real-time hotel reservations capabilities. �Our hotel clients have been eagerly awaiting the expansion of our popular Hotelligence with comprehensive Internet reservations data to complement the comprehensive GDS information that TravelCLICK already provides,� said Cohen. �It�s no secret that Pegasus powers a very significant percentage of Internet hotel bookings around the world, which makes Pegasus the best single source of aggregated Internet booking information available anywhere. The real news here for hoteliers is that Internet Hotelligence will allow them to better understand the booking performance of individual Web sites and travel portals for themselves and for their local competitors. That can only lead to improved decision-making for maximizing revenue from all electronic channels,� continued Cohen. �By teaming with Pegasus, TravelCLICK is leveraging our position in the hotel industry as one of the best sources for Internet distribution data. We are pleased to be working with TravelCLICK to create what we believe will be the most comprehensive information resource on Internet hotel reservations available to hoteliers,� said Kevin Short, senior vice president, Pegasus Solutions. �With the continuing growth in Internet hotel bookings worldwide, this service will be a critical tool for hotel revenue management and marketing experts as they endeavor to enhance their distribution channel management.� About TravelCLICK
About Pegasus Solutions, Inc.
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TravelCLICK, Inc. Kristina Paider 847/585-5238 [email protected] http://www.travelclick.net |