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 The Carino Collection Adds RockResorts
to its Growing Client Roster

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Ten exclusive luxury properties bring the number of CARINO hotels to
more than 60,  as CARINO moves even more aggressively
into high-end leisure sales 

NEW YORK, July 21, 2004 � The CARINO Collection, the most innovative sales representation company for independent hotels, announced that the ten luxury properties comprising RockResorts have joined CARINO as members. 

CARINO will provide RockResort hotels with comprehensive sales services including group sales, marketing to high-end travel agencies, and centralization of Rock Resorts� consortia strategy and outreach. For CARINO, the announcement signifies an even more aggressive foray into the leisure-resort property market; it comes on the heels of a record-breaking year, 2003, in which CARINO doubled the size of its portfolio to close to 50 hotels, expanded membership to 35 cities and ten countries, grew its portfolio by more than 40% outside the United States and launched a private-label version of its acclaimed SalesConnect software. 

According to Carino, the addition of RockResorts �rounds out our portfolio and brings us a group of high-end luxury resort properties that is without peer.� He added, �We are delighted to welcome RockResorts to the CARINO Collection, and at the same time, to note that we have reached a �critical mass� in our ability to sell and service the high-end resort market.�

Debbie McDole, Corporate Director of Sales for RockResorts, said, �We are delighted to join forces with CARINO to take our sales efforts to the next level.� She concluded, �We look forward to working with Joe Carino and his team as we make 2004 the most successful year ever for RockResorts.�

CARINO Collection is the only sales representation company that provides a centralized customer database (SalesConnect2.0�), RFP tools and sales and marketing support for business hotels worldwide. With offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, the CARINO Collection is a full service sales and customer information company dedicated to assisting hotels with the sales process. 

SalesConnect2.0� is a web-accessible database of corporate, leisure and group account information. This on-line tool enables hotel sales departments to maximize their sales potential by gathering real-time, up-to-date contact and business profile information, including historical travel statistics, on existing and potential clients. Furthermore, sales call reports and traces are integrated in real time thus creating the hotel industry�s first interactive, online data mining strategy tool. In addition, for those hotels that rely on corporate and consortia business, SalesConnect 2.0� is linked to a variety of on-line RFP tools to facilitate the on-line submission of completed proposals. 

For further information, please visit www.carinocollection.com or contact Peter Kressaty at [email protected] or tel. (212) 808-6590, fax (212) 808-6507.

About RockResorts

RockResorts, a luxury resort hotel company with headquarters in Denver, Colorado, owns and/or manages ten luxury resort hotels in seven states.  The RockResorts portfolio includes: The Lodge At Rancho Mirage in Rancho Mirage, California; Casa Madrona Hotel & Spa in Sausalito, California; The Pines Lodge in Beaver Creek, Colorado; Keystone Lodge in Keystone, Colorado; The Lodge At Vail in Vail, Colorado; Cheeca Lodge & Spa in the Florida Keys; La Posada de Santa Fe in New Mexico; The Equinox Resort & Spa in Manchester, Vermont; Rosario Resort & Spa in the San Juan Islands of Washington; Snake River Lodge & Spa in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

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Contact:
Michael G. Frenkel
 M FRENKEL COMMUNICATIONS, Inc.
 (212) 808-6556
 [email protected]

 
Also See: Colleen McCollum of the CARINO Collection Named Member of Board of Directors of Corporate Travel Association of New York / July 2004
The CARINO Collection Celebrates Record Setting Year of Growth and Expansion / January 2004
The CARINO Collection Expands Sales Management Team and Opens Los Angeles Office / May 2003


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