MeetingBroker.com instantly avails users of Newmarket products at hotels, regional sales offices, CVBs, and conference centers of immediately integrated leads sent from these popular sites: BusinessMeetings.com, based in London; Hot Dates Hot Rates, the first partner to sign; and Interactive Sites, developers of PlanIt Online.

The signing of three major publishers immediately establishes MeetingBroker.com as a vertical hub for hospitality sales leads.  Newmarket's worldwide install base of 3,000 sales and catering systems, and AT&T serving as the Web host for MeetingBroker.com further augment the hospitality industry's ability to integrate sales and marketing with the Web.

Chief Executive of BusinessMeetings.com, Pete Brady, said,"The MeetingBroker.com facility is a great addition to the BusinessMeetings.com site because it simplifies and speeds up the
process of getting proposals from venues.  And since BusinessMeetings.com is all about making life easier for meeting planners, the fit is ideal."

Representatives from the other early signing publishing partners echoed Brady. �Hot Dates Hot Rates is extraordinarily excited about its relationship with MeetingBroker.com,� said Bruce Timson, Managing Director.  �To be a launch partner with Newmarket shows our commitment to our customers to develop innovative ways to help them be more effective.  We expect Newmarket hotels using MeetingBroker.com to have the opportunity to enjoy increased business as a result of this relationship.�

According to Michael Quinn, Vice President of Marketing for Interactive Sites: �Many of the hospitality industry�s most successful and prestigious hotels are already generating
millions of dollars in additional revenue because they had the vision to see what PlanIt Online could do for them on their Web site.  Now with the added benefit of our partnership with Newmarket's MeetingBroker.com, our clients have the perfect enhancement to our lead referral program."

About BusinessMeetings.com
BusinessMeetings.com is a continuously updated sophisticated Internet based search engine designed to provide a one-stop resource for both professional and non-professional organizers of off-site meetings of any size at any location. The system is free for meeting planners who can search the site?s database of more than 37,000 venues worldwide quickly and easily. In addition, BusinessMeetings.com provides information that is invaluable to meeting planners such as passport and visa regulations, climate and health information and even an interactive currency converter.

About Hot Dates Hot Rates 
Hot Dates Hot Rates (HDHR) is a Website that joins meeting planners seeking group space with hotels that can accommodate their needs. Planners search by city, state, or region, and can view availability and send RFPs directly to individual subscriber hotels.  HDHR is linked to the majority of the sites visited by meeting planners, including placement on the home page of the
Meeting Professional International Website.  HDHR has corporate relationships with Crown Plaza Hotels, Doubletree Hotels, Embassy Suites Hotels, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Interstate Hotels, Lodgian Hotels, Radisson Hotels, and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, and includes date availability for over 1500 other hotels. In 1999, HDHR generated group room searches with a revenue value of over $125,000,000.
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About Interactive Sites, PlanIt Online
Based in Scottsdale, AZ, a full service interactive agency, is #1 in Internet, Extranet, and strategic marketing for the hospitality industry.  Interactive Sites creatively designs a multitude
of award-winning and revenue-producing applications for the World Wide Web, including PlanIt Online, which generated over $700 Million dollars in new meeting leads for clients in 1999 alone.
PlanIt Online has broken new ground by becoming the only privately labeled system on the market that enables event planners to plan a meeting directly from the web sites of over 2000 hotels around the globe.

Among the steadily increasing number of hotels using the Planit Online application on their web site are: Caesars, Destination Hotels & Resorts, Doubletree, Embassy Suites, MGM Grand-Las Vegas, Mirage Resorts, Park Place Entertainment, Pointe Hilton Resorts, Rio Hotel & Casino, ROCKResorts, St. Regis Luxury Collection, Shangri-La, Sheraton, W Hotels, Westin, Wolfgang Puck Restaurants, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, and a collection of world-wide independent hotels and resorts.