Dallas -- The VingCard Elsafe booth at the Hospitality Industry Technology Exhibition and Conference (HITEC) was bustling with hoteliers and consultants interested in seeing, touching and hearing more about the industry’s first design-centric electronic-locking solution that blends into the hotel environment. At a “Red Carpet” press event held on Wednesday, June 21, Ken Brown, Senior Executive VP of Sales and Marketing, identified numerous locations where the company’s Signature by VingCard series is “Now Showing” throughout North America and across the globe. In addition, the company announced its “Coming Attraction,” Signature RFID, a guest-friendly, contactless solution that is compatible with all main RFID ISO standards and new cellular telephone technology.

PARIS, FRANCE -- Le Meridien Chia Resort on the beautiful island of Sardinia in Italy has installed the Signature by VingCard electronic lock on all the guestrooms in the main building of the resort. The main building has been completely renovated and the hotel chose Signature by VingCard to blend into their elegant environment. “Keeping a sleek and minimalist harmony in design was a very important issue for us, since we have an elegant style at our resort and we want to create a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere among ours guests”, says Mr. Francesco Ascani, Resident Manager of Le Meridien Chia Laguna Resort. “As soon as we discovered Signature by VingCard, it was clear that it would perfectly blend with our overall style and would enhance our guests´ experience”, mentioned Mr. Francesco Ascani.

Oslo -- The 3, 4 and 5-star hotels belonging to Rica Hotels ASA can be found throughout Norway, and also in Sweden. This makes the Norwegian hotel chain the biggest in Norway. It was founded in 1975 by Jan E. Rivelsrud and Prince Carl Bernadotte of Sweden.

PARIS, FRANCE | Rafaelhoteles Madrid Norte (Madrid) is an innovative hotel with 145 rooms and 1300 m2 of convention/banquet space. It is located in Arroyo de la Vega, Alcobendas, in the Omega Business Park, a new concept in business centers. Rafaelhoteles Casanova, in Barcelona, is located in the well-known Ensanche area of Barcelona, at the intersection of Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes Street and Casanova Street. It brings a new concept of modern business hotel in the area with 126 fully-equipped rooms.

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 Louvre Hotels will deploy MICROS OPERA Property Management System (PMS), OPERA Reservation System (ORS), MICROS 3700 Point of Sale (POS), 3700 Entreprise Management (EM), and mymicros.net in its 210 company owned hotels under the Kyriad, Campanile, and Premiere Classe brands by the end of September 2006. Louvre Hotels has also chosen MICROS as preferred vendor solution for the entire chain, which represents approximately 750 budget hotels in France (806 including the rest of Europe).

Newmarket International will install a full complement of Delphi products including Delphi Multi- Property Edition®, Delphi Single Property Edition™, Delphi Global Sales Edition™, eProposal™, Delphi Diagrams™ and MeetingBrokerSM in 30 Shangri-La Hotel and Resorts properties. The Hong-Kong-based hotel chain is Asia Pacific’s leading luxury hotel group. The installation was started in the second quarter of 2005 and will be completed by the end of 2006. Delphi, by Newmarket International Inc., is the leading sales and catering software solution for the global hospitality industry.

MINNEAPOLIS | IDeaS, the leading provider of revenue optimization solutions and one of the industry's fastest growing technology companies has announced that EZ-Yield, a leader in hospitality focused online Channel management solutions has specifically tailored its EZ Yield S.P.I.D.E.R. platform to automatically update a hotelier's channels with IDeaS revenue managed pricing. With availability of the solution, EZ Yield becomes the first Channel management solution provider to distribute IDeaS Best Available Rate recommendations across multiple products and multiple channels. IDeaS, the industry leader in hospitality focused pricing factors a variety of information to provide hoteliers with customized pricing and Best Available Rates.

WESTON, FL | Datavision Technologies, the industry leader in business intelligence systems for the hospitality industry, has installed their DVEnterprise suite of products at Ginn Club and Resorts (Orlando, FL). The DVEnterprise suite collects and warehouses data from a variety of on-property systems, such as the PMS, golf, spa, point-of-sale, sales & catering and the payroll. Data from these disparate systems can then be viewed together in one integrated platform via Excel spreadsheets, browser based reports and highly graphical dashboards.

WESTON, FL | Datavision Technologies, the industry leader in business intelligence systems for the hospitality industry, has installed their DVEnterprise suite at Great Wolf Resorts (Madison, WI). The DVEnterprise suite collects and warehouses data from a variety of systems such as PMS, POS, Spa, Central Res and Back Office. Data from these disparate systems can then be viewed together in one integrated platform via Excel spreadsheets, browser based reports and highly graphical dashboards.

Portsmouth, New Hampshire | ewmarket International, Inc., the leader in hospitality sales and catering software, will announce the release of the Delphi® Sales Advantage at the HITEC 2006 hospitality technology trade show in Minneapolis, MN. Representing the culmination of a leading-edge redesign effort, the Delphi Sales Advantage release delivers an improved feature set and integrates Newmarket’s flagship products into a powerful application suite.