Jacksonville and New Orleans - March 31, 2003 - Technologists at Hotel Booking Solutions (HBS) and SECURE-RES.com announced the successful implementation of a two-way interface between hobooBox™ channel management solution and the SECURE-RES.com CRS.  The interface will allow reservations booked on property websites of SECURE-RES customers to be transferred directly and securely to the hotel’s property management system – eliminating faxes and emails.  Additionally, since both companies’ pricing models are low, fixed monthly fees, there are no transaction costs for the hotelier to deal with.

Hoteliers will also be able to use hobooBox’s ™ comprehensive channel management tools to control various rate, availability and other functionality that will affect the information provided on their SECURE-RES.com booking engine, as well as Alternative Distribution Systems (ADS). 

“Independent hoteliers are in need of a solution like this,” says Chris Lopez, CEO of HBS. “Nearly all methods of distribution require them to give away percentages of the transaction.  The SECURE-RES solution combined with hobooBox™ is easy to budget and highly manageable.”

Joe Hyman, CEO and President of SECURE-RES.COM added “Not only are the hotels giving up a significant portion of their revenue to 3rd party travel portals, these low yield bookings are creating additional handling and personnel costs at the properties.  The SECURE-RES.COM property booking channels allow the hotels to manage their rates efficiently, our booking tools attract buyers to the hotel websites and now we can offer a fast accurate means of updating directly into the hotel PMS.  This will reduce the hotel’s cost per sale and synchronize prices with the front desk.”

About Hotel Booking Solutions, LLC
Hotel Booking Solutions develops and provides unique, revolutionary solutions to connect and manage bottom line results for the hospitality industry.  Its premier product, hobooBox™ provides seamless two-way interfaces between hotel reservation systems and distributors on both commissionable and merchant model platforms, while providing tools for the hotelier to manage their multi-channel distribution.  Headquartered in New Orleans, USA, HBS operates a European office in Zell am See, Austria. Visit the company at http://www.hotelbookingsolutions.com For more information, please contact: Darin McAuliffe, President +1.504.309.1005

About SECURE-RES.com
SECURE-RES.COM provides quality, cost-effective marketing services to the hotel industry.  These services encompass all strategic segments that are essential to a successful Internet Marketing effort.  These segments are: website design and hosting, reservations (group, corporate, package and multi-property) and marketing tools that attract web shoppers (email blast, Search Engine Optimization, channel placement & management and ad tracking).  Our hotel partners are located worldwide.  All of our hotels benefited from a higher yield and increased web bookings in 2002, receiving $60 million dollars in direct booking revenue through their SECURE-RES.COM booking engines.  Our headquarters are in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Visit us at http://www.secure-res.com.