EventSource.com Offers Hotels Most Comprehensive, Free Content Listings In the Industry

"EventSource.com is underwriting a significant investment to provide meeting planners with the most robust content available on the Web today," said Ed Sarraille, president and CEO of EventSource.com. "Our leadership and domain expertise have enabled us to understand what's most important to planners when making meeting decisions. Our ability to offer this critical information to hotels and planners demonstrates our commitment to better serve and facilitate the meeting planning process. It's a win-win situation for both hotels and meeting planners."

Hyatt, Loews, and Wyndham are among the first hotel companies that will leverage the EventSource.com website to list in-depth details about their meeting facilities. In addition, each hotel will have the opportunity to feature the photographs that best represent its property.

"EventSource.com is taking a leadership stance by offering expanded information about our hotels for free," said Charlotte St. Martin, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Loews Hotel Corporation. "We believe that EventSource.com is providing an exceptional opportunity to best present our hotels on the Web. Their site is an invaluable way for us to target occasional and professional meeting planners and represents a significant new distribution channel for us."

EventSource.com's free, enhanced content listings will profile information that is critical to the meeting site selection and planning process. Each hotel profile will include a property site description, type, quality rating and locale. Expanded key data includes detailed information about the following capabilities:

• Meeting facilities: total meeting space, capacity, maximum breakout rooms, largest room, second largest room, foyer capacity, dedicated meeting space, total number of rooms without portable walls, with portable walls.
• Meeting equipment and facilities: audio equipment, A/V parts and supplies, blackboards/whiteboards, copy and duplicating equipment, direction signs, disc players, easels/tablets, installed stage, lobby bulletin board, microphones, name cards/holders, PA system, pencils/pens/pads, podium/lectern, portable stage, rear screen capabilities, slide projector/screen, spot lights, stack chairs, tables, teleconferencing.
• Access/traffic flow: separate, outside entrance to meeting/exhibition area, access to elevator, stairs, and/or escalator, separate registration area.
• High technology features: Computers/cost, computer projector, high speed Internet access, Internet service provider, teleconferencing, video conferencing, TV production, walkie talkies, polling devices.
• Meeting support services: From A/V technician, business center, carpenter, decorator, electrician, laborers, locksmith, medical/first aid, messenger services, musicians/entertainers, notary public, photographer, printing services, registration services, security guards, signage services, stenographer, tours.
• Recreational facilities: description of golf facility, health club, spa, tennis courts.
• Banquet price ranges: minimum/maximum price range per person for continental breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee break, afternoon break, reception, service charge.
• Dining and entertainment: restaurant/bar/lounge name, hours, cuisine, theme, entree price range and room service hours.
• Onsite services and shops: barbershop, beauty salon, bookstore, car rental, drugstore, florist, gift shop, liquor store, men's clothing, newsstand, travel agent, women's clothing, airport shuttle, airport transfer, baby sitter, business center, concierge, dry clean/laundry services, foreign exchange, health club, house doctor, ice machines, in-house movie, valet parking and self-assisted parking.
• Photographs: photographs that best represent each property including up to five photos of exterior, lobby, ballroom/breakout room, boardroom, guestroom, suite, restaurant, lounge, health club/spa, pool/beach, tennis court, signature or golf course.

EventSource.com's expanded content will be available beginning March 15, 2000. Free listings are available to all meeting and conference venues with a nominal set up fee of $150-195. Hotels interested in participating should contact Christina Reski at EventSource.com, 415-887-9109 or visit the website at .

About EventSource.com

Created in 1998, EventSource.com is the Internet's first online community for meeting planning. Corporate professionals to plan conferences, meetings, training, tradeshows, and sales and incentive programs use EventSource.com. The site's BookIt! service is a fast and easy way to locate and secure the perfect site for a meeting. BookIt! has managed more than 20,000 event requests to more than 500 cities worldwide and is backed by a team of meeting and hotel planning experts. EventSource.com was named one of the "Top Ten Travel Sites for 1999" by Business Travel News magazine and "one of the most-used sites" by Successful Meetings magazine. Financing for EventSource.com is led by Sequoia Capital, a top venture capital firm with a successful track record investing in Internet companies including Yahoo!, eToys and Cisco.