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LHTV Strengthens Lodging Hospitality's Online Media Portfolio.


LH Pioneers Online Television for Lodging Lodging or holiday accommodation is a type of accommodation. People who travel and stay away from home for more than a day need lodging mainly for sleeping. Other purposes are safety, shelter from cold and rain, having a place to store luggage and being able to take a  Industry Professionals

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:PTON) Lodging Hospitality today announces the launch of LHTV, an online, streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater.  offering that is the first of its kind in the lodging industry. Now available on LHonline.com are the first of many video segments each featuring an interview conducted by Ed Watkins, editor-in-chief of Lodging Hospitality magazine, with various executives of major hotel and resort franchises.

Gary Dietz, publisher of Lodging Hospitality, addresses the benefits that the LHTV's new video capabilities offer to LH customers. "LHTV is like TV except it plays to a BtoB vertical audience of lodging industry professionals. It brings another dimension to our media offering by combining 'sight and sound' in the message. LHTV is a prime example of our commitment to providing LH customers with a wide selection of ways to reach their customers through our rich portfolio of media products."

LHTV is currently being used to provide hotel brand development representatives with the powerful opportunity to communicate the strength of their hotel's brand, their mission, and the advantages of buying a hotel franchise to a targeted LH audience consisting of prospective owners, operators, and developers of hotels, motels Motels may refer to any of the following:
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  • The Motels, an American new-wave band.
, and resorts. Videos now airing include interviews with executives from Hilton Hotels
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The Hilton brand was re-united internationally after more than 40 years in February 2006, when United States-based Hilton
, NYLO Hotels, Vantage Hospitality Group and The Lodging Conference. Shortly, additional videos featuring Hyatt Hotels and 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  will be available on the site.

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 Watkins, "This is just the beginning for LHTV and Lodging Hospitality's digital efforts. We plan to enhance LHTV with on-location broadcasts at events like tradeshows and conferences, with live or pre-recorded webcasts, and perhaps even a daily, hotel industry, news show. LHTV gives our Lodging Hospitality audience greater control over how they choose to receive information, and we believe it is critical to deliver our content in all of the ways our audience wants to receive it."

The videos will run for three months on www.LHTVonline.com and then will be archived on LHonline.com for a 12-month period.

About Penton Media Penton Media, Inc. (OTC: PTON.OB), founded in 1892, is a diversified business-to-business media company. Penton Media is a mass media corporation that publishes and produces over 40 magazines, 80 trade shows, and 47 web sites. , Inc.

Penton Media (www.penton.com) is a diversified diversified (di·verˑ·s  business-to-business media company that provides high-quality content and integrated marketing solutions to the following industries: aviation; design/engineering; electronics; food/retail; government/compliance; business technology/enterprise IT; leisure/hospitality; manufacturing; mechanical systems/construction; health/nutrition and natural and organic products; and supply chain. Founded in 1892, Penton produces market-focused magazines, trade shows, conferences, and online media and provides a broad range of data, custom media, and direct marketing solutions for business-to-business customers worldwide.

About Lodging Hospitality

Lodging Hospitality is the leading feature publication serving the U.S. lodging industry. Since 1949, LH has been providing lodging owners, developers, operators, and marketers with the news, trends, and ideas they need to succeed in the $125-billion lodging market. The LH media family includes Lodging Hospitality magazine, which publishes 17 times a year; LHOnline, the publication's online presence; LHTV, an online video offering; and the HOT Conference, an annual in-person event geared to the operations and technology needs of hotel owners and operators.
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