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HubX and Interactive Sites Form Strategic Partnership

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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Contact:

Stuart M. Cerullo
HubX
617-244-0444x6948
[email protected]

Also See National Trust Historic Hotels of America Signs Agreement with HubX to Provide Central Reservations Services / May 2002
HubX Signs Agreement with The Leading Hotels of the World for Website Optimization and Two-Way Booking Engine / April 2002 
HubX Helps Integrate Ocean Properties' Legacy Systems and Operations Functions / Feb 2002 


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