WHEN:
10:00 a.m. EST
Tuesday, January 29, 2002

WHERE:
Visit www.ahla.com/news to hear McInerney's five-minute audio address. (Please note: Listeners must have the RealPlayer software to hear McInerney's address. To download a free version of this program, visit www.real.com.)

About AH&LA

AH&LA is a 92-year-old federation of state lodging associations throughout the United States with some 13,000 property members worldwide, representing more than 1.7 million guest rooms. AH&LA provides its members with assistance in operations, education, and communications, and lobbies on Capitol Hill to provide a business climate in which the industry can continue to prosper. Individual state associations provide representation at the state level and offer many additional cost-saving benefits.

About Hsyndicate

Hsyndicate.com is a global infrastructure technology platform for the aggregation, distribution and seamless integration of digital content to Web sites, portals, and wireless networks exclusively operating in the hospitality B2B vertical. Hsyndicate's open-source technology aggregates industry-specific contents and online services — then filters, delivers and precisely integrates this content instantaneously into their client public portals, private Intranets, and wireless networks. Hsyndicate feeds its contents to various hotel chains' Intranets and various industry-related portals such as hospitalitynet.org and wiredhotelier.com.