SAN DIEGO -- SecurFone America Inc.
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, announced today that its Internet based, e-commerce subsidiary, IXATA.COM Inc. (just say I-zay-ta), and its product, RFP Express(SM), are being featured at Choice Hotels International 45th Annual Convention at the San Diego Convention Center, Nov. 12-14, 1999. More than 4,000 hotel owners, developers, general managers, hotel executives, and corporate personnel are expected to attend.
Choice Hotels International
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, the world's second-largest lodging franchiser, is featuring IXATA.COM's RFP Express product to enhance the value of Choice's expanding family of property brands and to further stimulate new revenues in the business traveler segment. IXATA.COM will demonstrate RFP Express for attendees, conduct educational sessions and discuss IXATA.COM's planned next generation e-commerce services. Currently, IXATA.COM's RFP Express service is being used by Choice to manage and administer responses to corporation and travel agency requests for preferred lodging rate programs.
"We are pleased to support Choice's development of new Internet-based, e-commerce services to reduce costs and improve operations for their franchisees," said Paul B. Silverman, chief executive officer of IXATA.COM and Securfone. "Our Choice's partnership further reinforces RFP Express' positioning to serve the needs of major travel industry players."
RFP Express(SM) integrates an Internet-based interface with a sophisticated data-warehousing system and fax technology to deliver automated solutions for creating, sending, receiving, and managing the Request For Proposal (RFP) process involving hundreds or, in some cases, thousand of hotel properties worldwide.
By automating the RFP business process, RFP Express provides new capabilities and dramatic cost savings to users. RFP Express provides corporate travel managers with a simple "point and click" approach to create, manage and process thousands of RFPs and eliminate costly, labor-intensive paper, faxes and telephone calls.
Choice franchises nearly 5,000 hotels, inns, all-suite hotels and resorts open and under development in 36 countries under the Comfort, Quality, Clarion, Sleep Inn, Rodeway Inn, Econo Lodge and MainStay Suites brand names. Comfort, Quality, Clarion, Sleep Inn, Econo Lodge, Rodeway Inn and MainStay Suites are registered trademarks and service marks of Choice Hotels International Inc.
IXATA.COM (an acronym for Internet eXpress Advanced Technologies and Automation) is positioned to address the needs of the $250 billion corporate travel market and is a wholly owned subsidiary of SecurFone America
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. IXATA.COM is based in San Diego. The IXATA.COM management team includes individuals with extensive experience in the travel and hospitality industry. For more information on IXATA.COM, visit the company's Web site (www.ixata.com).
Statements made in this news release, other than those concerning historical information, should be considered forward-looking and subject to various risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements are made based on management's belief as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from the results anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors. Additional information concerning these factors can be found in press releases as well as in SecurFone's public periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. SecurFone undertakes no obligation to update the statements contained in this press release after the date hereof.
