HRN Unveils New State-of-the-Art Web Site Site Offers Instant Hotel Availability, Rates, and Booking Capability; Special Kick-Off Promotion Provides Travelers with Double Frequent Flyer Miles

DALLAS, March 14 / Hotel Reservations Network (HRN), the country's leading free discount hotel booking service, announced today that it is launching a new, state-of-the-art website on the Internet at . on March 22, 1997.

The new technology provides direct access to the HRN hotel database site enabling travelers to quickly and easily check hotel availability, view greatly enhanced photographs of the hotels, and book hotel rooms at significantly reduced rates in 14 major cities in the U.S. and Europe. The new HRN web address is .

"Web browsers will find a site that combines a host of new technologies and features," said travel expert Bob Diener, president of HRN. "We expect the site to become one of the most heavily visited sites for hotels on the Internet."

The new web site was designed after extensive research with HRN's customers by FS3 Internet marketing of Dallas, a premier web developer. The new site was developed primarily to provide direct access to the HRN hotel database and to provide faster, more accurate handling of the huge number of reservation requests through direct links to HRN's computers, explained Diener.

As a special promotion to kick-off the new site, HRN is offering double the frequent flyer miles on all bookings made by June 1, 1997, for stays anytime, on either Delta, Northwest, Continental or USAir.

HRN will continue to update its site with technological advances to ensure its customers have the most easy-to-use and fastest reservation services possible.

Special user benefits of the new web site include:

faster and easier booking capability;

enhanced color photos and graphics;

quick confirmation of hotel bookings;

quick-loading, user friendly screens;

credit card encryption;

ability to view color pictures of hotels;

room availability even when an entire city is sold out;

ability to check room availability and rates prior to booking

accommodations;

quick snapshots of the latest hot deals.

Customers will be able to receive discounts up to 65 percent off the regular rate at properties in New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Anaheim, San Diego, Orlando, Miami Beach, New Orleans, Las Vegas, London and Paris.

"Some of the best hotel values in the world are available via the

site," said Diener. An example of the hotels offered include Bally's in Las Vegas, the New Yorker in New York, the Ambassador West in Chicago, the Alliance St. Germain in Paris, and the King George in San Francisco.

Travelers can book their accommodations directly on-line. HRN's system protects credit card users by using credit card encryption technology or by assigning special user ID numbers so user's credit cards are never used.

Lois Fuhr (Fuhr & Associates)
425/788-7878
Hotels.com