Booking a Hotel Room Online is i-DEAL with Travelweb.com.Business Editors/Travel Writers DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2003 Travelweb.com Offers i-DEAL(TM) Rates and Real-Time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. Availability of Hotel Accommodations from More Than 10,000 Leading Hotels Introducing Travelweb.com, the only online travel site brought to you by five of the world's premier hoteliers, Hilton Hil·ton , Conrad Nicholson 1887-1979. American hotel-chain organizer who acquired hotels in many American cities and in 1946 founded the Hilton Hotel Corporation. , Hyatt Hyatt is an international brand of hotels within the Global Hyatt Corporation that operates numerous properties. Hyatt is a part of the Marmon Group which is owned by Chicago's Pritzker Family. Mark S. Hoplamazian is the current President and CEO of Global Hyatt Corporation. , Intercontinental in·ter·con·ti·nen·tal adj. 1. Extending or taking place between or among continents: intercontinental exploration; intercontinental cooperation. 2. , Marriott and Starwood hotels. Travelweb.com features the largest inventory of discounted hotel rooms and rates direct from more than 10,000 hotels and representing nearly 100 hotel brands. Its intuitive design leverages industry-leading search-and-display technology to enable consumers to quickly choose a hotel that best meets their accommodation needs and delivers a real-time confirmation directly from the selected hotel. Travelweb.com is the first discount distribution web site to have a seamless connection to each hotel's central reservation central reservation Noun Brit & NZ the strip that separates the two sides of a motorway or dual carriageway central reservation n (BRIT) (AUT) → mediana system, delivering real-time availability and rates. Customers receive a confirmation number directly from their selected hotel, eliminating check-in hassles associated with other online travel sites which manually fax reservation requests to each hotel. "Travelweb.com was created by hoteliers to encourage travelers to feel confident when booking hotel accommodations online. Travelweb has teamed with thousands of hotels to offer the most comprehensive selection of quality hotels and great prices," said Scott Hyden, general manager of Travelweb.com. "Travelweb.com takes the pain out of planning a trip and the unknown out of Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the booking through our patent-pending i-DEAL(TM) Display technology that quickly searches and displays the best rooms and rates in a given area for the customer. Customers will definitely want to add this to their list of 'must-visit' sites when booking travel online." Travelweb i-DEAL Display The i-DEAL Display is Travelweb.com's patent-pending technology that efficiently searches the availability of hotels that match the destination city and arrival/departure dates a customer requests. The search result is an i-DEAL listing of the hotel rooms and preferential pref·er·en·tial adj. 1. Of, relating to, or giving advantage or preference: preferential treatment. 2. rates which emphasizes properties that offer the customer the best discounted rate compared to prevailing rates in that market and that are available to book. "The work on the customer's part is minimal; the hard part will be deciding which i-DEAL rate to choose," added Hyden. Customers can refine their search beyond destination city to view "hotel clusters" located near a variety of popular neighborhoods, landmarks or attractions. For example, a customer searching in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. could choose to see hotels in the Central Park area or the Times Square area. Consumers can also search by star ratings, or filter the display to show only hotels that match a specific chain or hotel name. Travelweb i-DEAL Rate Guarantee Whenever the Travelweb.com i-DEAL icon is positioned next to a hotel rate, customers can be confident that it is the best rate on the Internet. Travelweb feels so strongly about its i-DEAL rates that if a reservation is made on Travelweb.com and the customer finds the exact same hotel room type at the same hotel on the same dates with a lower rate than Travelweb.com's lowest i-DEAL rate, the difference will be refunded. Guaranteed! Key benefits of Travelweb.com: -- Patent-Pending Search Display - Travelweb.com's i-DEAL Display intelligently matches consumers' requests with hotel rates, availability, and proximity to offer the customer the best value in online hotel booking. The display order emphasizes the matching properties that offer the customer the best discounted rate compared to prevailing rates in that market and have rooms available to book. -- Hotel Confirmation number - Travelweb.com's seamless connection to each hotel's central reservation system gives customers a confirmation number directly from their selected hotel, eliminating check-in hassles associated with other online travel sites that still use error-prone methods such as faxing reservation confirmations to hotels. -- Last minute availability - Travelweb.com's real-time connection to each hotel's central reservation system allows customers to book a hotel room weeks in advance or minutes before their stay; unlike other online booking sites which often have a 24 or 48 hour cut-off cut-off Anesthesiology The point at which elongation of the carbon chain of the 1-alkanol family of anesthetics results in a precipitous drop in the anesthetic potential of these agents–eg, at > 12 carbons in length, there is little anesthetic activity, . -- Largest 3, 4, and 5 star inventory - Travelweb understands that a great deal is more than a cheap room. No where else can consumers find discounted rates from so many three, four and five-star chains and properties including: Omni Hotels Omni Hotels is a privately owned upscale hotel company based in Irving, Texas. Omni currently owns and/or manages 36 properties of which 4 are resorts. The company also has 2 franchise properties (Newport News, VA and Philadelphia, PA). , Wyndham Hotels, Ritz Ritz elegant and luxurious hotel opened in Paris in 1898 by César Ritz; hence, ‘ritzy, putting on the ritz.’ [Fr. Hist.: Wentworth, 429] See : Luxury Carlton, Meridian Meridian (mərĭd`ēən), city (1990 pop. 41,036), seat of Lauderdale co., E Miss., near the Ala. line; settled 1831, inc. 1860. Oriental oriental having some connection with the Orient. oriental avian eye fluke see philophthalmusgralli. oriental blood fluke schistosomajaponicum. oriental cattle plague see rinderpest. , Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Carlson Hotels, The Leading Hotels of the World, as well as hundreds of independently owned and operated hotels, and the many properties and brands of Travelweb's founders: Hilton, Hyatt, Marriott, Intercontinental Hotels Group and Starwood. Travelweb and i-DEAL are registered trademarks of Travelweb, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . Note To Editors: If you would like the specific list of i-DEAL rates for your city, please contact the Travelweb.com press office. About Travelweb.com Travelweb.com is the consumer web site for Travelweb LLC, a travel distribution company. Travelweb.com offers i-DEAL(TM) rates from more than 10,000 leading hotels. Travelweb.com redefines value by giving consumers i-DEAL rates from more 3, 4, and 5 star hotels than any other online distribution site. Travelweb.com's patent-pending i-DEAL Display technology intelligently matches consumers' requests with hotel rates, availability, proximity to desired locations, and star ratings. This, along with the site's intuitive, easy-to-navigate shopping process, makes decision making fast and easy. About Travelweb LLC Travelweb LLC is a travel distribution company. Owned by Hilton Hotels Corporation Hilton Hotels Corporation (NYSE: HLT) is one of the leading global hospitality companies. As of April 2007 there are 2,645 hotels and 485,000 rooms employing 105,000 people in more than 80 countries. , Hyatt Corporation, Marriott International Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) is a worldwide operator and franchisor of a range of value and luxury hotels and related lodging facilities. Marriott currently has 2,300 accommodation properties in North America alone. , Intercontinental Hotels Group InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) (LSE: IHG NYSE: IHG) is a multinational company which operates several hotel brands. The largest hotel company by number of rooms (556,000 as of March 2007 [1]), its headquarters are in Windsor just outside Greater London and , Starwood Hotels, priceline.com and leading technology provider, Pegasus Solutions, Inc., Travelweb offers an innovative, new merchant method for the online distribution of discounted hotel room inventory. For hotel operators, Travelweb automates the distribution of net-rate rooms and brings new efficiencies to the market. Travelweb.com, the company's distribution Web site, gives consumers real-time access to hotel rooms and discounted rates. Leading third-party Internet affiliates such as priceline.com, Orbitz, continental.com and aavacations.com use Travelweb's seamless distribution network to supply the discount hotel content on their web sites. Additional Internet affiliates will leverage Travelweb's distribution network soon. Travelweb LLC is a private company headquartered in Dallas. |
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