Choicehotels.Com Offers Enhanced Electronic Brochures, Downloadable Travel Directory; Innovative Features, Enhanced Search Engines, Contemporary New Look.Business Editors SILVER SPRING, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 2003 Choice Hotels International (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CHH CHH Cartilage Hair Hypoplasia CHH Crustacean Hyperglycemic Hormone CHH Carter Holt Harvey Limited (Australia & New Zealand) CHH Chuan Hup Holdings Limited (Singapore) CHH Certified Hardware Hosineer ) has improved its official website, choicehotels.com, offering visitors to the site enhanced electronic brochures for more than 4,300 Choice brand hotels in the world and a downloadable travel directory designed to give travelers access to Choice Hotels' information, special programs, maps, and more -- both online and offline. Visitors to choicehotels.com will enjoy the newly designed e brochures for all Choice brand hotels worldwide. Users on the site will navigate smoothly through a sleek, more condensed con·dense v. con·densed, con·dens·ing, con·dens·es v.tr. 1. To reduce the volume or compass of. 2. To make more concise; abridge or shorten. 3. Physics a. home page featuring the Choice Hotels "Brand Promise" section which outlines the specific amenities guests will find at each brand; area information tabs that contain attractions, businesses, transportation, restaurants and lounges all within miles of each hotel; and a dynamic new mapping system. The e brochures allow users to check rates from every page of information, offer an extensive photo gallery for each property and gives users the ability to e-mail friends. "These latest enhancements are an example of Choice Hotels' continued effort to improve the online travel booking experience, not only for travelers but also for our franchisees worldwide," said Mary Beth Knight, Choice Hotels' vice president, e-commerce. "Choicehotels.com now gives travelers the tools they need to make informed decisions on hotel accommodations around the world." Through the downloadable travel directory, visitors will have access to more than 3,000 Choice brand properties in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. with live links to online reservations, property photos and descriptions, local location maps, seasonal rates and rate savings programs. Choicehotels.com's latest enhancements come at the end of a banner year for the site, which showed increased revenue of 27% over 2001. The Internet now accounts for nearly 30% of Choice Hotels' 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 traffic. Choice Hotels International is one of the world's largest lodging franchisors, marketing more than 5,000 hotels open or under development in 46 countries under the Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Clarion, Sleep Inn, Econo Lodge Econo Lodge is an economy motel chain based in the United States. Econo Lodge is the second largest brand in the Choice Hotels system. It is one of the best known names of its category and provides affordable rooms to budget travelers. , MainStay Suites Mainstay Suites is a brand of mid-priced extended stay hotels franchised by Choice Hotels International. Mainstay Suites hotels provide comfortable and affordable accommodations to extended stay travelers as well as provide many amenities to its guests. and Rodeway Inn Rodeway Inn is an upper-priced economy chain of motels in the United States and Canada. Rodeway Inn is a brand of the Choice Hotels group. There are over 150 locations in North America. brand names. For more information on Choice, visit the company's web site at www.choicehotels.com. Choice Hotels, Choice Hotels International, Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Clarion, Sleep Inn, Econo Lodge, MainStay Suites, Rodeway Inn, and The Power of Being There. Go are proprietary trademarks and service marks of Choice Hotels International. (C)2003 Choice Hotels International, Inc. All rights reserved. |
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