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Australia's Insite Hotel Consulting Aligns 
with TravelHero.com
 
SCOTTSDALE, AZ - December 20, 1999 - TravelHero.com, a leading provider of Internet travel services with a website located at http://www.travelhero.com announced today the signing of a strategic marketing agreement with Insite Hotel Consulting of Sydney, NSW Australia. The agreement, which is broad in scope and objective, appoints Insite as TravelHero.com’s agent in Australia.

“We are very excited by the opportunity to represent TravelHero.com in Australia. We believe that making the largest web site of hotel accommodation in the world available to Australia will bring huge benefits to consumers and business,” said Greg Gibbons, Director of Insite.

The agreement provides TravelHero.com with expanded content in Australia, site of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. “This is an exciting opportunity for TravelHero.com to expand our superior content into areas of the world which have mostly been ignored by the online travel industry,” said Matt Johnson, CEO of TravelHero.com. “We are extremely pleased to have the opportunity to introduce our content and commitment to outstanding customer service to the land down under,” he said.

TravelHero.com’s database of lodging properties currently includes more than 100,000 properties worldwide. The agreement with Insite is part of a global strategic marketing initiative in progress that will expand the TravelHero.com database of comprehensive lodging content to over 300,000 properties in the next 12 months.

“Australia is an important market for Australian travelers, and for international visitors to the country,” Johnson said. “This agreement is the first of many which will give TravelHero.com the ability to provide 100 percent customer satisfaction, no matter what the traveler’s destination is.”

TravelHero.com is actively pursuing strategic marketing alliances throughout the world. For more information, contact Steve McCarthy at smccarthy@travelhero.com.

About TravelHero.com
TravelHero.com (http://www.travelhero.com), founded in 1995, owns and operates a full service online travel web site offering lodging, airline, rental car, cruise, and tour reservations, as well as many ancillary travel related resources.  The company owns and maintains the largest, most content rich online database of lodging properties in the industry, providing unparalleled consumer choice. Their database of hotels, which is the most comprehensive available on the Internet, includes more than 100,000 property listings in 19,000 cities worldwide. Accommodation properties worldwide can add their property online (http://aarons.travelhero.com), via e-mail (info@travelhero.com), or by phone (1-888-675-0024).  The company provides local and regional reservation services for convention and visitor bureaus, chambers of commerce, and other web sites.

About Insite Hotel Consulting
Insite Hotel Consulting has been providing management consulting advice to the lodging industry for five years and has expertise in information technology.

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including references to future plans, objectives and intentions that involve risks and uncertainties. 

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Contact:
MARK PLIHCIK
(480) 946-5100
mplihcik@travelhero.com
 
Also See: TravelHero.com with Database of Over 100,000 Lodging Properties Enters Internet as Full - Service Travel Site / June 1999 
Performance Hospitality Management Utilizes Travelhero.com for Internet Reservations / Aug 1999 

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