Greater Pittsburgh, San Antonio CVBs Now Passkey-Enabled; Growing List of CVB Served by Passkey Hits 33.

Business Editors

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2001

Passkey.com, Inc., the leading provider of integrated Web-based group housing, event registration and travel solutions for the $120 billion meetings and convention industry - has added Greater Pittsburgh and San Antonio to its list of convention and visitors bureaus (CVBs).

Tim Durant, executive vice president and general manager for North America, said that 33 CVBs, 60% of which are among the Top 50 CVBs in the U.S., are now Passkey-enabled(SM).

"It is very exciting to start off 2001 as we did a year ago, when the list of CVBs partnering with Passkey grew by 14. We know that our relationships with the professional staffs in Pittsburgh and San Antonio will be rewarding for all concerned, and we look forward to their participation as well in our second annual CVB User Group meeting this summer."

Greater Pittsburgh in the Fold

Robert Imperata, executive vice president, Greater Pittsburgh Convention & Visitors Bureau (www.visitpittsburgh.com) said GPCVB was the first to offer interactive online housing registration and had been using in-house, custom software since the mid 1990's.

"Because we want to maintain our standards for providing excellent customer service, we solicited proposals from five companies," he said. "And CVBs in cities similar to Pittsburgh - Cleveland, Detroit and Minneapolis - gave Passkey great reviews. That was key to our decision, along with cost factors and the overall flexibility of the product."

Remembering the Alamo and San Antonio

The San Antonio area, which has gained popularity since the opening of the River Walk, and always remembered for the Alamo, is also newly Passkey-enabled.

"We wanted our customers to have choices of how to handle housing," said Steve Moore, executive director of the San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau (www.sanantoniocvb.com), "and Passkey was the popular choice of an increasing number of conventions, trade shows and meeting planners. We're happy to be working with an industry leader in serving our growing number of customers," he said.

About Passkey.com

Headquartered in the Boston suburb of Quincy, Passkey.com, Inc., is the leading provider of integrated Web-based group housing and travel solutions for the $120 billion meetings and convention industry. As a meetings industry metamediary, Passkey provides Web-based applications for use by all key channels within the meetings and conventions industry, including: convention and visitors bureaus, global distribution systems (GDS), hotels, travel agencies, associations, corporations, meetings RFP engines and registration vendors. Travel providers that are Passkey-enabled can leverage Passkey technology to manage group housing for both city-wide and single property meetings. Passkey also offers a booking engine for air and car and the group industry standard direct data delivery system to hotels, GRDS (Group Reservation Distribution System) co-developed by Sabre(R) and Passkey. Passkey investors include: Sabre (NYSE: TSG) (www.sabre.com), Galileo (NYSE: GLC) (www.galileo.com), Worldspan (www.worldspan.com), TravelCLICK (www.travelclick.net), Lazard Technology Partners, DRV Investment Group and McCord Group Travel Services (www.mccord.com). Passkey.com also has hospitality industry alliances with Pegasus Solutions, Inc. (www.pegsinc.com), cvent.com and PlanSoft Corporation (www.mpoint.com).

Passkey-enabled is a service mark of Passkey.com, Inc. Sabre is a registered trademark of an affiliate of Sabre Inc.