Datalex Lights Up LasVegas.com; Datalex's Internet Technology Enables Travel Portal to Market Renowned Destination Brand.Business Editors ATLANTA & DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 2003 Datalex (ISE Ise (ē`sā), city (1990 pop. 104,164), Mie prefecture, S Honshu, Japan, on Ise Bay. It is one of the foremost religious centers of Shinto, the site of the shrines of Ise. : DLE (character) DLE - Data Link Escape, the mnemonic for ASCII 16. )(OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). : DLEXY) next-generation Internet booking engine technology has been deployed at the re-launched www.LasVegas.com portal, where it enables destination-based travel enterprises to market their services more profitably. Using Datalex's latest technologies visitors can book hotel accommodations, air and car transportation. For the first time, the Datalex solution facilitates complex searches of everything Las Vegas has to offer, using enriched information and image resources on hotels and room configurations, and enables bookings to be made at a wide variety of shows and entertainment throughout Las Vegas. LasVegas.com serves the city's many visitors while representing the local people and businesses that make up Las Vegas itself. LasVegas.com is a partnership of Mandalay Resort Group Mandalay Resort Group was a hotel-casino operator based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Its major properties included Mandalay Bay, Luxor, Excalibur and Circus Circus, as well as half of the Monte Carlo. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MBG MBG Missouri Botanical Garden (Saint Louis) MBG Molecular Biology and Genetics (Cornell University department) MBG Money Back Guarantee MBG Matthaei Botanical Gardens (Ann Arbor, MI) ) and Park Place Entertainment (NYSE:PPE PPE (Brit) n abbr (Univ) (= philosophy, politics, and economics) → Studiengang bestehend aus Philosophie, Politologie und Volkswirtschaft PPE n abbr (BRIT ) (SCOL ), owners and operators of Las Vegas hotel and resort rooms, casinos, restaurants, shops and a collection of the destination's signature attractions and shows. The portal provides extensive information on visiting the city including guides, news, photographs and hotel and show descriptions. It enables the city-based partnership to offer visitors the convenience of one-stop shopping and information for all the major travel components through a single dedicated site, without the time consuming effort of researching and booking across multiple suppliers' Web sites. "No place in the world operates like Las Vegas," said Erick Rodriguez, president of LasVegas.com. "We needed a technology approach as grand as Las Vegas itself. We turned to Datalex to deliver a product the size and scope of the world's most popular leisure destination, and to work seamlessly with our other technology vendors to make LasVegas.com a reality." The Datalex solution is based upon its latest Web Services-based booking engine technology, designed to enable destination sites to provide multi-component travel packages, informational content, search and recommendation capabilities and distribution via the Internet. The system hardware and software is hosted by Datalex Managed Services at its Atlanta facility. "Datalex once again is proud to be associated with a world-class partner in this latest deployment of our next-generation booking engine platform at a destination resort site," said Datalex CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Neil Beck. "Our technology makes it possible for organizations like this to merchandise their attractions, facilities and destination brand while offering a complete travel service, using the powerful search and booking capabilities expected of a top booking site. Cost effective and efficient for the supplier; cost-effective and efficient for the consumer. This is what the Internet was always supposed to be about." About LasVegas.com LasVegas.com is an online travel Web site, jointly operated and equally owned by Mandalay Resort Group (NYSE:MBG) and Park Place Entertainment (NYSE:PPE). Park Place Entertainment owns, manages or has an interest in 28 gaming properties operating under the Caesars, Bally's, Flamingo, Grand Casinos, Hilton and Paris brand names with a total of approximately 2 million square feet of gaming space, 29,000 hotel rooms and 55,000 employees worldwide. Additional information on Park Place Entertainment can be accessed through the company's Web site at http://www.parkplace.com/. Mandalay Resort Group owns and operates 11 properties in Nevada: Mandalay Bay, Luxor, Excalibur, Circus Circus, and Slots-A-Fun in Las Vegas; Circus Circus-Reno; Colorado Belle and Edgewater in Laughlin; Gold Strike and Nevada Landing in Jean and Railroad Pass in Henderson. The company also owns and operates Gold Strike, a hotel/casino in Tunica County, Mississippi Tunica County is a county located in the Mississippi Delta region of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of 2000, the population is 9,227. Its county seat is Tunica6. . The company owns a 50 percent interest in Silver Legacy in Reno, and owns a 50 percent interest in and operates Monte Carlo in Las Vegas. In addition, the company owns a 50 percent interest in and operates Grand Victoria, a riverboat in Elgin, Illinois, and owns a 53.5 percent interest in and operates MotorCity in Detroit, Michigan. Additional information on Mandalay Resort Group can be accessed through the company's web site at www.mandalayresortgroup.com. About Datalex Datalex provides technology to leading global travel industry suppliers and distributors that enable them to aggregate and package a broad range of travel components for distribution across multiple sales channels. Datalex's customers include Aer Lingus, Air Canada, Amadeus, American Express, American Trans Air, Amtrak Amtrak, the National Railroad Passenger Corp., authorized to operate virtually all intercity passenger railroad routes in the United States. Amtrak was created by Congress in 1970 in response to more than two decades of continuous operating deficits by privately run , California State Automobile Association The California State Automobile Association is a motor club dedicated to improving roads, proposing traffic laws and improvement of overall driving conditions. It was founded in 1907 as an offshoot of the Automobile Club of Southern California (ACSC) to serve members in Northern , Comtec, Delta Air Lines, Disney Cruise Lines, FAR&WIDE, Galileo, KLM, Lufthansa, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Page & Moy, Siemens Canada and Germany, Saudi Arabian Airlines Saudi Arabian Airlines (Arabic: الخطوط الجوية العربية السعودية) is the national airline of Saudi Arabia, based in , Singapore Airlines, SilkAir, SNCF SNCF Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (French National Railways) SNCF Sans Nous les Cafés Ferment (French) , Sol Melia, South African Airways South African Airways (SAA) is South Africa's largest domestic and international airline company, with hubs in Cape Town and Johannesburg. It is also known in Afrikaans as Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens (SAL) , Thomas Cook, Trailfinders, TravelBag, Travelcare, T-Systems, Vail Resorts Inc., Unisys, WEXAS and Worldspan. Founded in 1985, the company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and maintains offices across the continents of Europe, USA and Asia-Pacific. Datalex is a publicly held company traded on the Irish Stock Exchange The Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) (Irish: Stocmhalartán na hÉireann) is Ireland's stock exchange, formed through the merger of the Cork and Dublin exchanges, both of which have existed as far back as 1793. (symbol: DLE, and also OTC: DLEXY). NOTE: This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities law, which are intended to qualify for the safe harbor from liability provided there under. All statements which are not historical statements of fact are "forward-looking statements" for purposes of these provisions and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include all financial projections, including projections of revenue, market share, earnings, EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) A metric used to show a company's profitability, but not its cash flow. EBITDA became popular in the 1980s to show the potential profitability of leveraged buyouts, but has become , free cash flow, statements of management's plans, objectives or expectations of future economic performance, statements regarding new developments or opportunities, statements of belief, and/or statements regarding anticipated construction, development, or acquisition. Additional information concerning potential risk factors that could affect the company's future performance are described from time to time in the company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001 and the company's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ending March 31, 2002 and June 30, 2002. These reports may be viewed free of charge at the following website: www.sec.gov. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. |
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