| Newton MA (August 19, 2002) – HubX (HubX.net),
the center of reservations innovation, and Interactive Sites (www.InteractiveSites.com),
the hotel industry’s leading web site development company have announced
a strategic partnership. The two companies will collaborate on providing
their complementary sophisticated e-commerce products and expertise to
the hotel industry.
HubX
is a leading global provider of online business solutions to hotels, resorts
and lodging management companies. Using its proprietary reservation
services, HubX provides two-way, real-time direct connectivity that can
be integrated with any hotel property management system. HubX’s growing
client list includes Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Leading Hotels of the
World, Historic Hotels of America, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, Interstate
Hotels and such independent properties as The Cloister, Sea Island; The
Colonnade Hotel and the Hotel DuPont. Interactive Sites is the 2002
winner of the hotel industry’s highest interactive marketing award, the
Hotel Sales & Hospitality Association International “Golden Clicks
Best of Show,” awarded for the comprehensive website the company created
for The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino. Interactive Sites has won 22
HSMAI awards for website creation since 1999. The company also created
PlanIt Online™ the most widely used private-labeled groups & meetings
online RFP that captures qualified meeting and planner information. The
first joint strategic marketing initiative will be a targeted e-mail campaign
to promote the benefits of the relationship.
In making the announcement, Mike Murray, President
and CEO of HubX commented, “We’re constantly asked, ‘What do I need to
do to make the most effective use of the Internet as a business channel
for my hotel?’ Hoteliers understand the critical potential of the new online
selling environment. They call on us as experts in technology and
presentation to make sure their systems can book business through the electronic
channels, and enhance their guest data capabilities. Our partnership
with Interactive Sites takes the solution one step further by helping hotels
create compelling dynamic sites that bring guests to their web sites in
the first place and facilitate their interaction. Our companies’ joint
mission is to enable hotels to exchange and distribute information in the
most advanced and cost-effective manner.”
Michael L. Waltman, President & CEO of Interactive
Sites said, "Our clients look to us for expertise in all areas of e-commerce
in addition to web-design. The alliance with HubX fulfills the increasing
demand to provide our customers with a robust end to end web-site solution.”
About HubX:
HubX (www.hubx.net)
is a superior, internet-based, hospitality service provider of reservation,
web and marketing services. HubX provides industry-leading products and
services; such as, a one-page, booking engine/cross-sell product allowing
hotels to effectively position and promote all their products and services
on the web and the HubX two-way, real-time direct connectivity that can
be integrated with any hotel property management (PMS) or central reservation
system.
About Interactive Sites:
Interactive Sites, Inc. (www.interactivesites.com)
is a full service Internet agency exclusively for the hospitality industry.
Interactive Sites provides web-site design and development, online groups
& meetings management applications, search engine optimization and
permission based e-mail marketing services.
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