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Travel Distribution Summit North America 2007

America's annual meeting place for the innovators in travel marketing, pricing and distribution!

 Colocated conferences: CRM Technology USA 2007  Revenue Management USA 2007
America's meeting place for the innovators in travel marketing, pricing and distribution
America's meeting place for the innovators in travel marketing, pricing and distribution

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Strategic Direct Marketing Group (SDMG) is a boutique direct marketing agency with a flare for response-based programs. SDMG works with companies in the retail, sport and Travel & Tourism helping them reach, acquire and retain customers with the right message at the right moment through direct media. SDMG uses a broad range of proprietary technologies to execute programs such as: Live Chat, E-mail Marketing, Direct to Desktop, contesting and analytics. The underpinnings of each program are in-depth strategy and traditional direct marketing tactics, giving customers the results they need. SDMG is headquartered in Calgary, AB and serves clients from Toronto to Vancouver and in the U.S. including; Best Buy, FutureShop, Sears, HBC, Intrawest, Sport Chek, Palace Sports & Entertainment, Detroit Pistons, Coast Hotels, Sport Mart,WestJet, and both Alberta and Saskatchewan Tourism.
PinPoint Local delivers complete internet solutions for travel and hospitality companies. From custom websites to targeted search and local marketing campaigns, PinPoint Local helps travel companies connect with consumers online. Our proprietary suite of tools empowers travel companies to increase reservations and boost Internet revenue. For more information, visit us online at www.PinPointLocal.com.
ZDirect is the preeminent provider of electronic marketing and eCRM solutions for hotels and resorts. Its product ZMail™, allows property managers to interact with guests then streamline the property's entire electronic marketing and CRM effort. With ZMail's suite of tools and PMS interfaces, managers can centralize their databases, send target emails based on preferences, send prearrival & post-departure emails, customer satisfaction surveys and convert leads into loyal customers. The result is new revenue captured, enhanced loyalty, an expanded customer base all with measurable ROI. For more information ask for Doug Reinmuth (dougr@zdirect.com) or Bob Fill (bobf@zdirect.com).
Travelscream Technologies offers a suite of Internet-based marketing solutions designed to facilitate improved communication between travel professionals. We offer programs to help lodging partners, tourism service providers and travel agents get up and running quickly, easily and inexpensively in an advanced communications environment. Industry suppliers, purchasers and influencers will find targeted, cost-effective channels in which to deliver or receive information in a streamlined, state-of-the-art manner through incorporating our innovative products into their marketing plan.
ICE Portal is the easiest, most economical way to for travel suppliers to distribute rich content (videos, virtual tours, WebShows, etc.), to 1000s of travel websites & millions of consumers. ICE produces or accepts suppliers' rich content then converts the content (size, format, category, etc) and brands it for distribution to multiple channels in multiple languages.
International Communication by Design, Inc. (ICD), a comprehensive translation agency, provides integrated translation and technical communication services that helps clients communicate more effectively in the global marketplace. We work with professional, ATA accredited translators whom are native speakers. Our specialties include Web localization, technical manuals, and multiplatform desktop publishing.
ICD's project managers utilize a variety of translation memory tools, such as Trados and SDLX, which shorten project cycles and improve product consistency. By providing superior foreign communication, ICD seeks to strengthen their client's global presence and better the travel and hospitality industry. ICD: Translating your company into a global success.
BeDynamic Inc., provides the travel and tourism industry with a single-source solution for capturing and managing up-to-date destination information. Designed for travel suppliers such as hotels, airlines and convention and visitors bureaus, dynamic content aggregation and delivery service increases the quality, depth, timeliness and affordability of specialized information on local events and venues. By forging strategic partnerships with local destination stakeholders, BeDynamic ensures consistent, effective promotion of cultural, entertainment, arts and sports organizations of all kinds. Collaborative consulting services and innovative technologies enable customers to increase visitor attraction and promote the unique appeal of their respective destinations.
Founded in 2000, Vision Critical is considered the leader in developing customer advisory panels and interactive research. The company's two core software products, Panel+™ and Fusion™, are software platforms that manage custom online panels, private research communities and interactive surveys. Clients include Liz Claiborne, Nestle, Valvoline, Virgin Mobile and WestJet.
SDL International is a leader in the emerging market for global information management (GIM) solutions that empower organizations to accelerate the delivery of high quality multilingual content to global markets. Its enterprise software and services integrate with existing business systems to manage global information from authoring to publication and throughout the distributed localization supply chain.
Ruf Strategic Solutions delivers a full suite of marketing and business intelligence solutions designed to help organizations acquire new customers and build profitable relationships with existing customers. Founded by Jacob F. Ruf in 1976, Ruf Strategic Solutions has been helping organizations maximize the return on their marketing investment through superior customer intelligence. Jacob Ruf's four sons now operate Ruf Strategic Solutions. Carrying on their father's midwestern values of honesty, hard work and integrity, the brothers are guiding Ruf Strategic Solutions as an industry leader with iCRM, an intelligent based system in Customer Relationship Management.
CarTrawler is a next generation global car rental distribution system, enabling partners to access pricing, availability and bookings from over 450 car rental suppliers globally in real-time, from within their existing sites. By integrating CarTrawler technology into third party booking engines we facilitate the cross-selling and dynamic packaging of car rental a high yield, uncomplicated product - into Airline, Hotel, Online Travel Agents (OTA's) & Travel Agency Call Centres.
Datalex is a leading provider of travel distribution software and solutions that enable global travel industry suppliers and distributors to deliver increased content and choice to their customers across multiple sales channels, while enabling record reductions in distribution costs. Datalex products and solutions enable the dynamic packaging, pricing and distribution of multiple travel components across multiple distribution channels. Our customers represent major airlines; travel distributors; hotel and resort groups.
Multimap is one of the world's leading providers of online mapping and location-based services. The company delivers more online maps, point-to-point driving directions and geo-spatial ("where's my nearest?") searches to more companies than any other supplier in Europe. Our 1,000 business customers across the globe include lastminute.com, Opodo, Hilton International, ebookers, Flight Centre, Radisson and Laterooms.
Idiom® Technologies is the leading independent supplier of SaaS and on-premise server-based globalization management systems (GMS). Sometimes called translation management systems, GMS software solutions enable global enterprises and language service providers to accelerate the translation and localization process for any content, from websites to paper-based documents and software applications.
Travel Guard is America's leading provider of travel insurance and emergency travel assistance services 24/7/365. Travel Guard provides our valued partners with customized travel protection program, cutting-edge technology and comprehensive sales support. Our attractive commission structures will help your business boost its bottom line and create a new revenue stream.
OpenJaw Technologies is a privately held technology company focused exclusively on the Travel Industry and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with office in Madrid, Spain. OpenJaw was founded in March 2002 to develop the next generation of technology for travel distribution based on XML and Web Services standards. Our mission is to become the leading provider of XML technology solutions to the travel industry.
Trisept Solutions is an exciting, cutting-edge technology company recognized as the technology leader for the leisure travel industry. Trisept works with more than 20 leading vacation packagers. Its clients include ten major airlines (both domestic and international) and nationally recognized hoteliers, tour operators, theme parks, travel marketers and travel agents.
IDeaS is the world's leading provider of hospitality focused pricing and revenue optimization solutions. Our products are specifically designed to provide hoteliers with a clear vision to their data, thereby giving them greater control over their business. Our clients include some of the most prestigious companies in the world.
Founded in July 1999, EasyRMS is a global leader and provider of ASP/Internet revenue and yield management solutions. With more than 20 years of combined industry knowledge, EasyRMS is dedicated to the introduction of new generation technology and procedures within the hospitality industry and aims to deliver these services to its clients. Backed by the confidence of many of today's industry leaders, EasyRMS is committed to easing the current burden of strategic decision making and implementation of revenue and yield management techniques and procedures worldwide.
PROS is the world leader in pricing and revenue optimization solutions in the travel and transportation industry. PROS enterprise-level solutions optimize millions of pricing decisions every day. The PROS mission is to maximize revenue using PROS' world-leading revenue optimization science, software systems, and best practices consulting. PROS' solutions forecast demand, optimize inventory, and provide dynamic pricing optimization to maximize revenue.
translations.com is the leading provider of full-service Internet globalization solutions to clients such as Avis Rent-A-Car, Continental Airlines, Hilton International and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. The company was founded to specifically focus on the strategic needs of organizations seeking to communicate and conduct e-commerce in international markets via the Internet and wireless networks and today has an established global presence on three continents.
eStara is an industry leader in proactive solutions that connect travel and hospitality buyers and sellers with the right form of contact at the right time to ensure customer satisfaction and loyalty. More than 350 global enterprises are using eStara's Click to Call, Chat and Call Tracking to increase sales conversion, reduce website abandonment and improve customer experience. Leading brands including Continental Airlines, Starwood and Hotels.com have trusted eStara's service because of its flexibility, scalability, reliability and ability to convert browsers into buyers. eStara is a wholly owned subsidiary of ATG (Art Technology Group, Inc.). Visit www.eStara.com.
Akamai is the leading global service provider for accelerating e-business in the Hotel and Travel industry. Leading hotel and travel companies such as All Nippon Airways, InterContinental Hotels Group, Thomas Cook AG, and Travelocity.com depend on Akamai today. Akamai Dynamic Site Solutions provide a predictable, high-quality user experience that measurably improves conversion rates, increases online bookings, and builds loyalty with your best customers. By delivering significantly faster page and application download times, Akamai ensures that more customers buy on your site and stay loyal to your brand. Akamai is "The Trusted Choice for Online Business."
For more information, visit www.akamai.com
VistaTEC was founded July 1997 by industry veterans who shared the vision of building a localization company that mirrored our personal business values; success would come with long term commitment to client and a willingness to innovate. In keeping with our original aspirations, our largest customers have been working with us for at least 5 years, and a few have been with us since we opened our doors-10 years ago. Today, we are one of the few localization companies that is fully owned and run by its management team.
Water Music Records produces retail and custom compilation music albums for Hotels, Spas, Restaurants and Airlines. We customize each CD package with your company's logo, photos and sales pitch or menu. Our clients include HYATT, PENINSULA, HILTON, CATHAY PACIFIC and many others.
We can produce an album on CD quickly and with great tunes for your Hotel, Spa, Restaurant, Airline or company.
For your private label music CD, contact:
brad@watermusicrecords.com
or call (818) 808-0800 x. 201
Please visit us at stand 26 at the HOTEL DISTRIBUTION SUMMIT (Caesars Palace)
OTOlabs' suite of permission-based digital marketing platforms enables marketers and publishers to use the rapidly evolving online interactive marketing space to achieve a new, enhanced relationship with their customers. ThinkDesktop (www.thinkdesktop.com) is a branded desktop application development, deployment and measurement platform; ionMX is a fully hosted email and RSS messaging platform; and PolyThink is a widget, gadget, desktop mobile and Web 2.0 syndication platform. Clients include many Fortune 500 brands including major theme parks, resorts and convention/visitor bureaus.
Directski.com is Europe's leading online ski tour operator. Earn generous commissions while offering your clients quality handpicked ski lodging located in the heart of over 50 of the most popular ski resorts in Europe and North America. Through white label, agent toolsets or availability feeds, you can offer lodging, transfers, ski school, lift tickets, equipment rental and on-the-ground support - all available to book online in real time.

Representing Directski.com at Eye for Travel, Las Vegas will be:

Anthony Collins, CEO anthony.collins@directski.com

Neal Collins, Sales & Marketing Director neal.collins@directski.com
Avani Cimcon Technologies (ACT) provides the Travel Industry with customizable solutions to achieve SOA and e-CRM success.

Our software products include XML based, OTA compliant, Data Exchange Middleware Server, named DXchangeOTA. Also we provide web based marketing automation toolbox and customized content management systems.

DXchangeOTA allows travel suppliers, GDS, distributors and consumers to connect to each other using OTA compliant web services. The web based marketing tools contains modules that makes it very easy to manage print and e-mail marketing campaigns.

With significant Travel Industry experience ACT has given leading organizations more agility and success. For further information, visit http://travel.avanicimcon.com
TravelCLICK is the leading provider of integrated distributed technology and marketing solutions for the hospitality industry, including reservations and distribution services, market intelligence products, and Travel Agent and Internet marketing solutions. The company empowers hotels to realize their true revenue and profit potential by driving guest demand, converting more online lookers to bookers, and increasing the revenue per stay of each guest.
Clairvoyix provides the marketing automation solutions that the leading hotels and resorts of the world depend on for their targeted marketing initiatives. The Clairvoyix product suite has been designed to address the marketing challenges faced by single independent resorts and hotels as well as multi-property, multi-PMS organizations. Clairvoyix is the proven solution for both acquisition marketing (prospecting) and guest relationship/loyalty marketing (retention, cross-sell, and up-sell). The Clairvoyix solution is offered as a user friendly, web-browser accessed suite of products designed specifically for the marketing professional or as a fully outsourced direct marketing service.
Oracle's business is information - how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL), the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided software and services that enable organizations to get the most accurate and up-to-date information from their business systems. Today, Oracle has over 275,000 customers - including 98 of the Fortune 100 and more than 2,500 Travel & Hospitality customer - in more than 145 countries.
A unit of the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, The Center for Hospitality Research sponsors research designed to improve practices in the hospitality industry. With the support of its 61 corporate affiliates, the center publishes Cornell Hospitality Reports, Cornell Hospitality Tools, Industry Perspectives: A White Paper Series from Cornell, and the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly (CQ).
Dallas-based Pegasus Solutions, Inc. is a global leader in providing technology and services to hotels and travel distributors. Founded in 1989, Pegasus' customers include a majority of the world's travel agencies and more than 60,000 hotel properties around the globe. Pegasus' services include central reservation systems, electronic distribution services, commission processing and payment services, and marketing representation services, including the consumer Web site, www.hotelbook.com. The company's representation services, including Utell by Pegasus&153; and Unirez by Pegasus&153;, are used by more than 7,000 member hotels in more than 130 countries, making Pegasus the hotel industry's largest third-party marketing and reservations provider. Pegasus has 17 offices in 12 countries, including regional hubs in London, Singapore and Scottsdale, Arizona.
Travelzoo is a global Internet media company that publishes travel deals. Travelzoo's publications, which reach more than 11 million travel enthusiasts in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Germany, include the Travelzoo® Web site (www.travelzoo.com), the Top 20® list, the Newsflash™ e-mail alert service and SuperSearch™, a travel search engine. Travelzoo publishes offers from more than 600 advertisers. Travelzoo's deal experts review each offer to find the best travel deals and confirm their true value. Travelzoo is headquartered in New York City.
Omni Hotels is just one of 75,000 websites using HACKER SAFE® certification-the world’s most recognized assurance of Internet security-to build the trust that builds their online reservations and revenue. Omni’s testing of HACKER SAFE showed a 9% increase in online reservations during peak periods of its business cycle. There are IT security companies that harden your network against hackers. There are online marketing companies that can increase your online reservations. Then there is ScanAlert. We’re the world’s most trusted website auditor and we do both.
Avalon Report’s proven technology enables hotels to make strategic on-line decisions in real-time. With a click of a mouse, our time saving, on-demand service summarize all key elements of web visibility in easy to read, graphics rich dashboard and excel formats. The R3 Report analyzes and charts web rates, rate parity, web page placement, traveler reviews and traveler ratings. The Avalon Buzz Report, the industry’s first Travel 2.0 solution, tames the wild, wild west of Consumer Generated Content. Delivers complete traveler reviews and ratings, candid traveler photos, videos, property descriptions and total number of reviews and average scores per site. www.avalonreport.com
NAVISis helping build client success for vacation rental management companies and independent resorts by increasing revenue. By leveraging innovative telephone technologies, NAVIS clients can track incoming calls and marketing campaigns, capture demographics, track internet keywords, increase reservation closure rates, close more leads, and increase bookings.

The NAVIS System, which includes a data interface with Springer Miller software, embodies a sophisticated suite of marketing and reservation tools, along with a core set of Best Practices that together form a new, more successful customer-centric strategy. Disciplined utilization of The NAVIS System will result in significant incremental revenue.
A unit of the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, The Center for Hospitality Research sponsors research designed to improve practices in the hospitality industry. With the support of its 61 corporate affiliates, the center publishes Cornell Hospitality Reports, Cornell Hospitality Tools, Industry Perspectives: A White Paper Series from Cornell, and the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly (CQ).
QL2 is the leading provider of market intelligence solutions for the travel industry. With over 100 travel clients around the world, we understand this dynamic industry and have the best solutions to meet your very specific needs. Our clients include 9 of the top 10 U.S. based airlines, over half of the largest airlines in the world, plus the top car rental and online travel agencies.

Whether you need real-time pricing and product information for successful pricing optimization and revenue management initiatives, or competitive and marketing intelligence, QL2 has the experience and expertise to deliver the right solution for more profitable business decisions. Visit us at www.QL2.com.
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