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DENVER | VT360 announces that Starwood Hotels & Resorts is endorsing their company as sole-preferred virtual tour provider for all Starwood properties within the United States and Canada. For over 2 years, VT360 has been providing exceptionally high quality photography at a very reasonable price, thus making the decision for Starwood to select VT360 as their sole endorsed provider a logical next step, to ensure all Starwood property VT images meet the new high standards.

”We want our hotels and resorts to have the absolute best virtual tour images available on the web and VT360 delivers the absolute best virtual tour product; without a doubt.” said Hank Sagman – Sr. Director of Multimedia Production Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

“We are excited at the opportunity to capture high definition images that showcase each Starwood property in the best format possible.” said Brian Stearns, Managing Director of VT360. ”Our newest platform is highly compatible, user-friendly and delivers our HD images with instant full-screen capabilities along with an optional embedded high quality voice narrative (trüvoice™).” added Stearns.

Under the terms of each property agreement, VT360 will provide a comprehensive set of high quality services including HD-R photography, extensive post production values, content management, all project management and scheduling utilizing VT360’s new secure online ordering and PMI automated project system.

About Starwood Hotels and Resorts | Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with approximately 890 properties in more than 100 countries and 145,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood Hotels is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels and resorts with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis®, The Luxury Collection®, Sheraton®, Westin®, Four Points® by Sheraton, W®, Le Méridien® and the recently announced AloftSM and ElementSM Hotels. Starwood Hotels also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit www.starwoodhotels.com.

About VT360 | VT360 has been the leading innovator in 360-degree image capture and delivery since 1998. VT360 was the first virtual tour vendor to launch a multi-function virtual tour display and is now the industry’s preferred vendor for instant full-screen virtual tours with voice! The superior content that VT360 delivers enables travelers to preview hotels and resorts in astounding resolution delivered on high-speed first tier, redundant networks. Each of VT360's clients have had a substantial increase of online booking and with the addition of new VT360 distribution relationships, are able to easily display their images on Multiple travel channels, including Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, Priceline and over 20,000 affiliate travel sites for increased visibility and improved brand recognition. For more information, visit www.vt360.com.