Newmarket International, Inc., the leader in sales and catering solutions for the hospitality technology industry, today announced that The Gleneagles® Hotel, the world-renowned luxury resort in Perthshire, Scotland, selected its Sales Advantage suite of group business solutions. The Sales Advantage will automate Gleneagles’ group, corporate and event management business processes, from the management of leads and responding to request-for-proposals (RFPs) to room diagramming and the execution of meetings and events. Gleneagles selected Newmarket’s technology as part of an upgrade plan to improve procedures across its business.

Portsmouth, NH | Newmarket International, Inc., the leader in sales and catering solutions for the hospitality technology industry, today announced that CustomerSat, the leader in real-time customer feedback solutions that measure, analyze and drive action based on satisfaction and loyalty, has awarded the company with its Achievement in Customer Excellence (ACE)™ Award. This marks the second consecutive year that Newmarket was recognized with this honor in the areas of support and project management. The award acknowledges Newmarket’s commitment to provide the best service and support for its customers.

Paramount Group of Hotels is a collection of 20 four-star hotels across the UK. The group includes the prestigious Lygon Arms in Broadway, the Paramount Carlton Hotel in Edinburgh and the Paramount Majestic Hotel in Harrogate. Now part of Barceló Hotels & Resorts, one of the world’s top 30 largest hotel groups, Paramount has ambitious plans to expand within the UK over the next few years and further develop its award-winning and innovative approach to online customer acquisition.

DALLAS | VingCard, part of the ASSA ABLOY Hospitality Group, announced today it has installed Signature RFID by VingCard® electronic locks at the newly renovated Plaza Hotel in New York, which is scheduled to reopen by the end of 2007. VingCard’s Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) electronic locks allow for contactless guest room entry and are compatible with next-generation Near Field Communication (NFC) cell phones.

SOUTHLAKE, Texas, 13 November – SynXis, the Sabre Holdings business that provides hotel distribution and Internet marketing services globally, announced today that Sandman Hotels, Canada’s fastest-growing, privately-owned hospitality company with over 35 properties, has selected SynXis as its distribution marketing partner and is using the RedX® Distribution Management System as its single distribution platform. Sandman Hotels now connects to all distribution channels using RedX including Global Distribution Systems (GDS), third party travel sites. Sandman Hotels will also use the RedX Booking Engine with multiple property search features to power its own website (www.sandmanhotels.com). Sandman Hotels will continue to be represented on the GDSs under the PS chain code and selected SynXis, in part because of their success switching and managing medium-sized chains. The SynXis team has implemented and now manages over 30 private label chain codes and recent switches have experienced increases in booking volumes between 11% and 23% in the first six months after the switch to RedX.

BOCA RATON, Fla. | Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading provider of innovative IT solutions, including specifically-designed hospitality industry solutions, announced today that Royal River Casino & Hotel in Flandreau, S.D. has selected the InfoGenesis POS™ system by Agilysys. Royal River installed the system, along with 10 terminals, to streamline operations and enhance guest service at the 120-room property, which is owned and operated by the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe.

Minneapolis, SoftBrands, Inc. (AMEX: SBN) a global supplier of enterprise application software, announced today that it has extended its agreement with Libra Hospitality to represent the Karyon distribution products and services across Russia and eastern Europe. Libra Hospitality is the premier software provider to the growing travel and tourism market throughout Russia and eastern Europe, and currently supports more than 150 hotels.

BETHESDA, Maryland 07 November – E-site Marketing, the Sabre Holdings premier internet marketing company specializing in online business solutions exclusively for the hospitality industry, recently helped launch an innovative new hotel brand in Europe by applying the latest in Web 2.0 technology and marketing. citizenM (www.citizenm.com), a Dutch hotel group, takes its name from the idea of the mobile citizen and promises “affordable luxury” for travelers on the go so it seemed only appropriate that they would take advantage of the latest trends in online marketing to launch their brand. E-site Marketing’s expertise in applying Web 2.0 best practices to the hospitality industry proved to be a perfect fit and the success of the initial campaign could immediately be measured: within days of the launch both websites (E-site Marketing launched both a brand website and a hotel website for citizenM’s first property in Amsterdam) were ranked on the first pages of the search engines for not only the brand terms but also for more specific destination search terms; and after just two weeks the websites received over 20,000 visitor sessions. This was all achieved without spending any money for paid online media.

Xn Hotels will be exhibiting at Hostec Europe, which takes place at ExCeL London from February 18 - 21, 2008.

IDeaS, the leading provider of hotel revenue management and optimization solutions and one of America’s fastest growing technology companies, celebrates their ten year partnership with Mirvac Hotels & Resorts. Commencing with the first installations in 1997 at several properties in Sydney, Mirvac Hotels & Resorts has since deployed the IDeaS V5 Revenue Optimization System at selected Mirvac Hotels throughout Australia and New Zealand. In the past two years there have been additional rollouts of our Next Generation web based V5i On-demand version throughout the portfolio of Mirvac Hotels & Resorts.