Lanyon

DALLAS -- Lanyon, Inc., (www.lanyon.com) a leading content distribution technology provider to the hotel industry and their partners, announced today that RFPpublisher, its industry-leading automated tool for processing corporate and agency RFPs, continues to grow, adding new hotel companies and agency programs to its global community. In addition, Lanyon announced several enhancements to RFPpublisher Exchange, a facility that enables Corporate Travel Managers to customize and manage their hotel RFP programs. The standard Exchange service will be provided at no cost to the Corporate Travel Managers.

"We are in the middle of another successful RFP season," stated Mario Sagastume, Lanyon's chief operating officer, "and we welcome all new participants. What is especially gratifying is that the new hotel and agency clients were referrals from current Lanyon clients. From Lanyon's perspective, the best form of advertising is delivering quality products that consistently meet the needs of our customers.

"Among the hotel companies joining the RFPpublisher community are Golden Tulip, InnLink, and Lees Inns. The new agency programs include BSI, DER, GBTA, and ITP. RFPpublisher currently delivers over 20 custom agency programs, including American Express, CCRA, Navigant, Rosenbluth, THOR24, and TQ3-Maritz. Over the past seven years, we've established strong relationships with our agency clients, working closely with each agency to deploy custom programs that consistently deliver high-quality content in their preferred format and timeline. Part of this process entails programming complex and unique data validation procedures and extensive internal and client testing for each program. The resulting benefit is that properly completed and acceptable bids are submitted the first time, dramatically reducing processing costs for the hotels and for the agencies simultaneously."

"In addition, responding to the industry's requests for a comprehensive RFP management tool, we are enhancing RFPpublisher Exchange," continued Sagastume. "Exchange enables Corporate Travel Managers to manage the entire RFP process, from creating custom programs, using the NBTA form as the foundation, selecting the hotel companies and hotels from which they are requesting bids, to monitoring the status of their RFP. Exchange makes the single-point-of-entry concept a reality for corporations as well as hotel companies. There is no charge to the corporation for using the standard Exchange services. We will be showing Exchange during the upcoming NBTA conference and tradeshow in Dallas."

About PropertyVault

PropertyVault is the hotel industry's solution to content and channel management. The Web-based service consists of a repository to collect and manage content, and four (4) publishing modules that repurpose the content for specific distribution channels: ChannelPublisher for Internet sites and system integration; RFPpublisher for corporate and consortia RFP processing; HODpublisher for GDS property descriptions; and RatePublisher for GDS and host system rate loading. DRSpublisher, a separate service, refreshes GDS marketing pages, which contain information about special offers/programs/services, reservations policies, and agency commissions, making updates available to travel agencies worldwide. The combined effect is a highly efficient, integrated distribution process, delivering a consistent product presentation across all enterprise channels.

About Lanyon

For 19 years, Lanyon has focused on delivering exceptional content distribution technologies to the travel industry. Today, Lanyon is the recognized leader in Content Management, Channel Management and Process Improvement Solutions for the hotel industry and their partners. From its early success with GDS publishing and productivity tools to its latest Internet applications, Lanyon products are found in travel-related companies that effectively market their services electronically. Lanyon is headquartered in Dallas. Lanyon is a registered trademark and PropertyVault, RatePublisher, HODpublisher, RFPpublisher, ChannelPublisher and DRSpublisher are trademarks of Lanyon, Inc. Further information on Lanyon and its services can be found at www.lanyon.com.

Mario Sagastume
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