Lexington Services will demo LexLinkSM OnLine, a password-protected management tool that provides Lexington�s member hotels access to Lexington Services� system to manage inventory, download reservations and access real-time information on revenue, productivity and guest arrivals.

Lexington Services also will debut Rate OnLine, a new feature of LexLink OnLine, which will allow member hotels to change their rates online in real time. 

�LexLink OnLine provides the user-friendly solutions that hoteliers have searched for,�� said Zolon Wilkins III, chief operating officer. �Using the power of the Internet, Lexington Services has developed an efficient way for our members to manage their operations at the touch of a finger.��

More than 400 Lexington Services� member hotels are currently using LexLink OnLine since its launch in Nov. 1998. Lexington Services� newest member is Candlewood Hotel Company, Inc., which has more than 100 properties open or under development in the United States. 

�LexLink OnLine allows us to easily manage the complicated inventory associated with all-suite hotels, as well as to download reservations, and access up-to-the-minute information on productivity and guest arrivals,�� said David Redfern, vice president of sales and marketing for Candlewood.

More than 2,500 hotels partner with Lexington Services in order to increase their visibility with more than 600,000 travel agents and planners worldwide.

 �Lexington Services is the only reservations service that provides online access to real-time reservation information, allowing us to provide our member hotels with current inventory information over the phone,�� said Tracey Simmons, program manager, Historic Hotels of America. �LexLink OnLine�s detailed reporting capabilities allow us to take a strategic approach toward our yield management activities, which helps to keep us on the leading edge.��

Lexington Services will have its ITB booth in Berlin located at stand 8.1/24. Lexington Services is a subsidiary of The Travel Company, a leading specialized distributor of cruise vacations, domestic and international airline tickets, European auto rentals and hotel reservations.

Lexington Services, a subsidiary of The Travel Company (Nasdaq: TRVL), provides reservation services for more than 2,500 independent hotels, resorts, inns, suites and chains with over 300,000 rooms in 60 countries.  Lexington's central reservations office, located in Irving/Las Colinas, Texas, is connected to all major Global Distribution Systems and the world's leading Internet sites.  Accessible by travel agents under the access code LM in the GDSs, as well as by home and business computers via the Internet (through TravelWeb and Microsoft Expedia), Lexington's proprietary in-house reservations system was designed, developed and is maintained by Lexington Services.  Lexington has development representatives located in Dallas, Dubai, Geneva, Iceland, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, Rome and Sydney.  More information about Lexington Services is available at www.lexres.com.