Questex acquires online booking service.Questex Media Group's (Newton, MA) Travel & Hospitality unit has acquired Five Star Alliance (fivestaralliance.com; Alexandria Alexandria, city, Egypt Alexandria, Arabic Al Iskandariyah, city (1996 pop. 3,328,196), N Egypt, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is at the western extremity of the Nile River delta, situated on a narrow isthmus between the sea and Lake Mareotis (Maryut). , VA), an online luxury hotel booking service for the affluent traveler. No terms of the deal were given. Launched in 2005, Five Star Alliance is an online booking agent Noun 1. booking agent - someone who engages a person or company for performances booker agent - a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations impresario, promoter, showman - a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments for luxury hotel properties. Hotels are listed by invitation only and are vetted via an extensive editorial approval process, Questex said. The company covers more than 1300 properties (The Meurice, Paris; The Carlyle, 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 ; The Hay Adams Adams, town (1990 pop. 9,445), Berkshire co., NW Mass., in the Berkshires, on the Hoosic River; inc. 1778. Its manufactures include chemicals, textiles, and paper products. The Berkshire region attracts tourists year-round. , Washington, D.C.; etc.) and provides recommendations via newsletters and blogs, resulting in over three million page views and 400,000 visitors per month. The site handles in excess of $30 million in gross sales Gross Sales A measure of overall sales that isn't adjusted for customer discounts or returns, calculated simply by adding all sales invoices, and not including operating expenses, cost of goods sold, payment of taxes, or any other charge. annually. Questex's Travel & Hospitality unit includes the Travel Group, publisher of "Luxury Travel Advisor," "Travel Agent Magazine," "Premier Hotels & Resorts," "Premier Spas" and "Premier Romance," as well as the Luxury Travel Expo and Incentive Travel Exchange. The Hospitality group produces "Hotel & Motel Management," "Hotel Design" and "Luxury Hotelier" magazines and related events include HotelWorld Expo, IHIF IHIF Indiana Health Industry Forum , HOTEC Management and HOTEC Design. Questex President/CEO Kerry Gumas said that adding Five Star Alliance's "online booking engine to our existing media platform provides us with the means to fully serve the affluent traveler and their luxury travel advisors. It's a great growth opportunity for us to bring our suppliers closer to their end-market, the travelers." |
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