ONHTEC STUDIO 2003: Interview w/ Fred Bean, VP, Hotel Sales and Relations, Travelweb, LLC - Discussing this new travel distribution company, backed by premier names in hospitality and travel

What or who is Travelweb LLC? It's the website, right? This isn't just another infomercial is it? Not exactly. Travelweb LLC's Fred Bean joins us from HITEC 2003 to discuss the Travelweb LLC and .com difference. He'll explain their innovative merchant model and what distribution channels Travelweb provides once a hotel gets involved. Fred Bean covers this and more in this streaming video interview.

Fred Bean is Vice President of Hotel Sales & Relations for Travelweb. In this role, he has helped Travelweb to become the largest hotel distribution company with more than 10,000 hotels, and at a record pace. Mr. Bean and his sales team are responsible for building and maintaining relationships with leading hoteliers eager to join Travelweb's distribution network. Mr. Bean joined Travelweb LLC from Travelocity.com where he was senior manager for their merchant model vacations product. Prior to Travelocity.com, he spent six years in the hospitality technology and online distribution industry with WorldRes.com, Sabre, and Hyatt Hotels, holding positions in reservation sales, customer service, call center management, operations, product management, systems development, and sales engineering.

Travelweb LLC is a travel distribution company. Owned by Hilton Hotels Corporation, Hyatt Corporation, Marriott International, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Starwood Hotels, priceline.com and travel technology provider Pegasus Solutions, Inc., Travelweb offers an innovative new method for the online distribution of hotel rooms. For hotel operators, Travelweb LLC automates the distribution of discounted rooms and brings new cost and time efficiencies to the market. Through Travelweb's private label offerings distributed through leading third-party Internet affiliates such as priceline.com, Orbitz and , consumers have access to a full spectrum of hotel accommodations and rates. Travelweb LLC is a private company headquartered in Dallas. Editors Note: For more information on John Davis, please contact Michael Brophy, Public Relations Manager for Pegasus Solutions, [email protected], 214/234-4400.

Kevin Heilbronner is the US Editor for wiredhotelier.com and hospitalitynet.org, providing streaming multimedia-content for these websites. Based outside of Washington DC, Heilbronner has worked with Hsyndicate to conduct interviews at several hospitality trade shows in the US and Europe over the last couple of years. His column and content are featured in the Hospitality Net weekly newsletter. A familiar voice in Washington, DC, Heilbronner is the stadium announcer for the NBA's Washington Wizards, WNBA's Washington Mystics and WUSA's Washington Freedom. He resides in Centreville, VA and can be reached via email: [email protected].

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