PGI's Reservations Plus Enhances Current Offering Through Agreement With Whale Media.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2000 Reservations Plus, the leisure division of PGI PGI Protected Geographical Indication PGI Progiciel de Gestion Intégré (French: Enterprise Resource Planning) PGI Phosphoglucose Isomerase PGI Polish Geological Institute (Warsaw, Poland) Housing, Registration and Travel, announced today an agreement with Whale Media, Inc., an Application Service Provider focusing on Internet-based travel procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. solutions, to provide real-time reservation transactions for bookings processed through its call center, client and company web site (www.resplus.com) featuring the Level TEN Universal Inventory Management System (UIMS UIMS - User Interface Management System: a system supporting the development and execution of user interfaces, usually on top of windowing systems. ) and global distribution of its product line through Whale Media's Level 2000 Internet Distribution System (IDS). "Through Whale Media's Level 2000 distribution system, Reservations Plus will not only be able to book reservations online and in the call center, we will also gain access to Whale Media's network of travel agents worldwide, thereby adding more destinations and products to our current offering. The system offers our customers the ability of booking over 100,000 additional hotels worldwide," commented Reservations Plus / PGI Director of Sales and Marketing, Larry Peterson. "This should double expected booking volume and revenues within the first year." "Working with Reservations Plus as part of our Level TEN UIMS program will allow Whale Media to expand on our goal of making as many hotels available to as many distribution channels and travel portals as possible. Reservations Plus will play an important role in achieving this goal, and we look forward to working with them in that pursuit," stated Whale Media Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Aloha Knaefler. As of January 15, 2001, Reservations Plus will launch the use of the Whale Media system. About Reservations Plus: Reservations Plus (www.resplus.com) is the leisure division of PGI Housing, Registration and Travel located in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nevada currently offering hotel accommodations and travel services in four destinations: Las Vegas, Reno, Lake Tahoe and Laughlin. Reservations Plus has contracted room rates and blocks at over 40 hotels, offering wholesale rates to travel agents and consumers. Travel services offered by Reservations Plus include airline ticketing, car rentals, sightseeing tours, golf arrangements, show tickets, ski packages and wedding arrangements. Group and small meeting arrangements for ten or more rooms are available through the Leisure Sales Department by the Tour and Conference Sales Manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → . Reservations can be made either on the web at www.resplus.com or through the call center at 800/805-9528 or 702/261-0869. About Whale Media: Whale Media (www.whalemedia.com), is a B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business technology company that provides its customers with the most efficient ASP infrastructure, low-cost, scalable and customizable set of web-based inventory management and distribution tools available on the market. Services include the Level TEN Universal Inventory Management System (UIMS) that enables travel vendors to host, manage and distribute their inventory via the Internet, vendor and intermediary customer web sites. Level 2000 IDS (Internet Distribution System) provides real-time distribution of travel inventory and bookings for web sites and corporate intranets featuring Global Distribution System (GDS GDS Global Distribution System GDS Google Desktop Search (Google) GDS Goodie Domain Service (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) GDS Guards ), non-GDS inventory and direct supplier pricing. Additional services include the MSC (1) (MSC.Software Corporation, Santa Ana, CA, www.mscsoftware.com) Founded in 1963 by Richard H. MacNeal and Robert G. Schwendler, MSC is the world's largest provider of mechanical computer aided engineering (MCAE) strategies, simulation software and services. (Merchandise Shopping Cart), private label auctions and the DTE (Data Terminating Equipment) A communications device that is the source or destination of signals on a network. It is typically a terminal or computer. Contrast with DCE.  DTE - Data Terminal Equipment (Dynamic Travel Exchange). Whale Media clients are additionally supported with e-commerce marketing and strategy services through its offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , California and Spain. About PGI: PGI, Inc. (www.pgi.com) is the only global agency offering a full host of services for corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. , destination management, exhibitions & conferences, interactive solutions, learning & performance, and housing, registration & travel. The company creates more than 2,500 events annually, translating client objectives and strategic messages into qualitative experiences. Founded in 1990, the Arlington, VA-based company employs nearly 600 full-time and 2,600 on-call event and communications professionals in 31 cities worldwide. |
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