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Germany's Ehotel AG Taps Pegasus Solutions for
Internet and Mobile Hotel Bookings; German Consumer Travel Sites
Bedhunter.com and...Publication:
Business Wire
Date: Thursday, September 26 2002
Business Editors & High Tech Writers
DALLAS & BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2002--Pegasus
Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:PEGS) announced it is implementing a two-year
hotel reservations technology agreement with Berlin-based ehotel AG, a
German travel reservations provider that offers a hotel booking
solution via mobile devices. Dallas-based Pegasus Solutions
(www.pegs.com) is a leading provider of hotel industry transaction
processing solutions and electronic commerce services.
Pegasus is "powering" hotel reservations on the German company's
two Web sites, www.ehotel.de and www.bedhunter.com, as well as those
of ehotel AG's participating affiliate partners, such as leading car
rental company The Sixt Group, Lufthansa Corporate Flyway Airlines,
and economy airline German British Airways. ehotel AG is also tapping
Pegasus to access hotel rates, inventory and property information for
use with the German company's growing mobile commerce service.
ehotel AG's Web Sites and Service Center now Powered by
Pegasus(TM)
As a result of the agreement, ehotel AG has an XML interface to
Pegasus' Electronic Distribution Switch for direct access to the
central reservations systems (CRS) of more than 200 hotel chains.
Having switched from TRUST International's booking engine, ehotel AG's
Web sites now are Powered by Pegasus(TM),. ehotel AG's
company-operated and affiliate Web sites have instant access to hotel
inventory and rates, including corporate-negotiated pricing, and
receive real-time Internet reservations directly from hotels' CRSs.
ehotel AG's service center agents are also using Pegasus' Internet
booking engine and database to make room reservations.
ehotel AG accesses Pegasus' Online Distribution Database of
approximately 47,000 hotels worldwide, which includes more than 1,700
hotels located within Germany. Pegasus' Online Distribution Database
feeds more than 75,000 images and detailed property information to the
thousands of Web sites in Pegasus' Online Distribution Network, which
includes sites such as All-hotels.com, Travelchannel.de, Hotel.de,
Expedia.com, Orbitz, Travelweb.com, Lastminute.com, and now ehotel.de
and bedhunter.com.
Pegasus' Connectivity Supporting ehotel AG's Mobile Commerce
Offering
In addition, Pegasus is providing ehotel AG's mobile service at
wap.bedhunter.com with direct access to hotels' CRSs. ehotel AG is
converting detailed property information, rates and availability
provided via Pegasus to a WAP (wireless application protocol)-enabled
form, enabling the ability to create, change and cancel hotel
reservations via WAP-enabled devices, such as mobile phones.
"Pegasus Solutions represents a global, comprehensive provider for
meeting all our multi-channel hotel reservations technology needs,
including handling our corporate-negotiated rate functionality," said
Matthias Garke, co-chief executive officer of ehotel AG. "Pegasus also
has the proven reputation and commitment to emerging technologies that
enables us to present its offering to our affiliate partners with
confidence."
"We share ehotel AG's commitment for maximizing both conventional
and emerging hotel distribution channels. The m-commerce arena is very
attractive to us and we are very interested in working with companies
such as ehotel that are in the position to exploit this new and
quickly growing electronic distribution opportunity," said Gideon
Dean, senior vice president of worldwide technology sales for Pegasus
Solutions, Inc.
A sampling of other European Web sites Powered by Pegasus includes
Hotelnet.co.uk, HotelHub.net, Ebookers.com, LateRooms.com,
ThePlaceToStay.co.uk and Direct-Hotels.co.uk. Frankfurt, Germany-based
Deutsche Bahn, Germany's National Rail Company, also uses Pegasus'
online hotel reservations technology.
According to Jupiter MMXI, Germany is the second largest online
travel market in Europe, with 5.1 million unique visitors in January
2002. Investment company Bear Stearns predicts that the online booking
of hotel rooms worldwide will grow to $15.5 billion in 2006 from $3.8
billion in 2000.
Company Information
Launched in February 2001, Berlin-based ehotel AG's
(www.ehotel.de) core competence is fast, reliable booking of hotel
rooms for leisure and business travel. ehotel AG is one of the first
companies to have entered the market with a mobile booking function.
Through its ehotel Service, the company negotiates with hotels for
room rates that are up to 62 percent lower than regular standard
rates. ehotel AG also offers the booking of flights and car rentals
through its major partners. The company operates the Web sites
ehotel.de and bedhunter.com.
Dallas-based Pegasus Solutions, Inc. (www.pegs.com) is a leading
global provider of hotel reservation technologies. Its services
include central reservations systems (CRS); electronic distribution
services that connect more than 44,000 hotels to the Internet and to
the global distribution systems (GDS); travel agent commission
processing and payment services; the Utell marketing and reservation
representation service (www.Utell.com); and PegasusCentral(TM), a
Web-based enterprise solution with property management applications.
Pegasus' customers comprise tens of thousands of travel agencies
around the world, including the top 10 largest U.S.-based travel
agencies(1); more than 48,000 hotel properties around the globe,
including all of the 50 largest hotel brands in the world based on
total number of guest rooms(2); and thousands of Web sites/services
have their hotel reservations Powered by Pegasus(TM). In addition to
its corporate headquarters in Dallas, Pegasus has 20 offices in 11
countries, including regional hubs in Phoenix, London and Singapore.
The company's stock is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the
symbol PEGS.
This statement contains references to future events and projected
results, including anticipated transactions involving the Company and
its service offerings. There can be no assurance that the referenced
future events or projected results will actually occur or that the
future financial performance of the Company will be as projected.
Actual occurrences, results and performance may differ substantially
and materially from those projected as a result of a number of risks
and uncertainties, such as adverse changes in general market
conditions for business and leisure travel as a result of additional
terrorist activities, action by U.S. military forces, changes in hotel
room rates, capacity adjustments by airlines, trends in the overall
demand for travel, and the inherent difficulty in making projections
during this period of uncertainty, as well as other risks and
uncertainties mentioned in this statement or detailed in the Company's
periodic reports and registration statements recently filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission including Forms 10-K, 10Q and 8K.
1 Travel Weekly, June 25, 2001, "Top 50 Travel Agencies"
2 Hotel Business, February 7, 2002, "The Top Hotel Brands" -
ranked by total number of rooms (2001)
--30--mjr/da*
CONTACT: Pegasus Solutions, Inc., Dallas
Karin Wacaser, 214/234-4129
karin.wacaser@pegs.com
or
Publicis Dialog for Pegasus
Kelly Campbell/Ken Garcia, 972/628-7738 / 972/628-4325
kelly.campbell@publicis-usa.com
ken.garcia@publicis-usa.com
KEYWORD: TEXAS GERMANY INTERNATIONAL EUROPE
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS INTERNET
TELECOMMUNICATIONS TRAVEL MARKETING AGREEMENTS
SOURCE: Pegasus Solutions, Inc.
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