Overseeing five high-occupancy properties totaling nearly 1,000 rooms inside the beltway would be a challenge even if they were all standard ‘big-box’ flagged operations. But managing sales for five unique hotels that range from the 340-room Washington Plaza to the luxury boutique 54-room Morrison Clark Inn, calls for equal parts experience, business savvy and technology.

SynXis, the Sabre Holdings business that provides hotel distribution and Internet marketing services globally, announced today that the RedX Distribution Management System that connects thousands of hotels to online distribution channels has been certified by Visa as meeting the PCI (Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standards. SynXis is the first Central Reservation System (CRS) provider to achieve this critical status, reinforcing its position as the leader in innovative distribution technology solutions. SynXis hotel customers can be assured that their guests’ data is being handled at the highest level of data security.

protel will remain Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts' primary provider of professional hotel software solutions. MH&R will continue to rely on protel as its strategic IT platform. This strong commitment between the two companies was reiterated today by Movenpick Hotels & Resorts in response to recent events.

MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCRS), a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, is pleased to announce a powerful new XML-based direct connection between Expedia® and MICROS’s “myfidelio.net” service, which is powered by the OPERA Reservation System. This connection is then pushed through to any of MICROS’s Property Management Systems (PMS) including OPERA PMS, Fidelio Suite 8 in Europe, Fidelio Version 6, and Fidelio Version 7. Sunstar Hotels in Switzerland is the first customer to deploy this powerful solution.

Award winning lifestyle hotel operators Malmaison and Hotel du Vin Hotels recently completed the pilot implementation of Xn Hotels’ dotPOS Enterprise in their 4 newest properties (Malmaison Reading, Hotel du Vin Cheltenham, Hotel du Vin Cambridge and Hotel du Vin York). The group now plans to install the system in its existing estate, with a rollout to 11 further properties under way.

MICROS Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRS), a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, is pleased to announce that IHG (Intercontinental Hotels Group), one of the world's largest hotel groups by number of rooms, has selected MICROS 9700 and 3700 point-of-sale (POS) systems as the preferred vendor solution for all of its owned and managed hotels. IHG will also deploy mymicros.net, MICROS's web-based software suite. Installation of 30 corporate locations is targeted for April 2008.

IDeaS, the leading provider of hospitality revenue management and optimization solutions, announced today that Hotel Berna, Milan, has implemented IDeaS V5i On-demand Revenue Management Solution to manage its pricing strategies.

COLUMBIA, Md. -- MICROS Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRS), a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, is pleased to announce that Millennium Hotels and Resorts has selected MICROS OPERA as the standard property management solution and MICROS 9700 Hospitality Management System (HMS) as the standard food and beverage point-of-sale solution for its 14 Millennium Hotel properties located in the United States. MICROS OPERA will be deployed and centrally hosted in the MICROS Data Center located in Ashburn, Virginia.

IDeaS, the leading provider of hospitality revenue management and optimization solutions, announced today that Martin’s Group, consisting of seven small hotels based in Belgium, has installed IDeaS V5i On-Demand Revenue Management Solution throughout its estate.

IDeaS Revenue Optimization, the leading provider of hospitality revenue management and optimization software, will exhibit at ITB Berlin, the world’s largest travel trade show, taking place on 5-9 March, 2008.