iHotelier Continues to Penetrate the Asian Market; Chinese Hotels Choose Texas Firm For GDS Reservations.Business Editors/Travel Writers/High-Tech Writers HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 2003 iHotelier, a division of Webvertising Inc., has announced that it will be powering GDS GDS Global Distribution System GDS Google Desktop Search (Google) GDS Goodie Domain Service (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) GDS Guards reservations for 38 properties in China. Asia System Media (ASM (1) (Association for Systems Management) An international membership organization based in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1947 and disbanded in 1996, it sponsored conferences in all phases of administrative systems and management. ) Group, best known as the publisher of the YPPA YPPA Yellow Pages Publishers Association YPPA Young Partners For A Prosperous Athens (Athens, GA) Gold Award-winning Chinese Yellow Chinese yellow Chinese draft cattle of zebu origin. Usually yellow, also brown, red or black in color. Pages, chose iHotelier because of its high level of customer service along with state-of-the-art technology. ASM has been providing reservation services to hotels all across China for over five years. iHotelier has also been powering Internet bookings on ASM's travel portal www.chinatravelcenter.com for two years. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Albert Lai, president of the ASM Group, "China is a big market that attracts a lot of corporate as well as leisure travelers. We needed a solution that was not only robust enough to manage that many transactions but also had the flexibility to cater to the needs of each property. iHotelier's system allows us to manage inventory and rates at the property level as well as equips us with numerous marketing and yield management tools that help maximize revenues. Furthermore, having worked with them in the past, we feel very comfortable that our hotels will be in good hands." Estella Sanchez, iHotelier's sales manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → , expressed her enthusiasm over the firm's rapid growth in the international market: "We are really looking forward to catering to the Chinese market. Our goal has always been to work with hotels to provide them with exactly what they need. We developed our technology with that in mind and that is why we are able to customize our solutions according to the specific needs of different markets and properties." About iHotelier: http://www.ihotelier.com iHotelier, a hotel representation company, offers a suite of electronic distribution solutions for the hospitality industry that includes the patent-pending OneScreen user interface, customized Web-based CRS CRS Course CRS Certified Residential Specialist (real estate certification) CRS Central Reservation System CRS Can't Remember Stuff (polite form) CRS Cost Reduction Strategy CRS Consumer Relations Specialist , GDS connectivity, online reservation management, private-label voice services, Internet marketing, and PMS (Pantone Matching System) A color matching system that has a unique number assigned to more than 500 different colors and shades. This standard for the printing industry has been built into many graphics and desktop publishing programs to ensure color accuracy. interfaces. iHotelier can help clients in all segments of the hospitality industry, from high-end independent properties to hotel management corporations to destination marketing companies and CVB's. A division of Webvertising Inc., iHotelier strives to provide the hospitality industry with the perfect blend of exceptional customer care and smart application development. Webvertising is an award-winning firm developing for the Web since 1994. |
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