Mashantucket, CT/Quincy, MA | Foxwoods Resort Casino, one of the nation's leading gaming and hospitality companies, announced today that it is adopting Passkey, the world's leading online group reservation system, as its standard method for handling and managing group reservations. Foxwoods has begun offering Passkey to all its meeting planners and events, from weddings, corporate events and meetings, to conferences and conventions.

"We are pleased to offer our meeting planners and their attendees this automated system to streamline the group reservation process" stated Joan Esneault, Executive Director of Resort Sales at Foxwoods. "As we grow our resort to include MGM Grand at Foxwoods in 2008, we will be positioned to exceed the expectations of all of our group clients."

Foxwoods' mission is to consistently provide an exquisite event experience that exceeds all planner expectations for event success. Passkey will be an important element of that mission. Event attendees at Foxwoods will now be able to use Passkey's custom event websites to make, modify and cancel their hotel reservations from any web browser. Planners will benefit from 24/7 access to online event reports, which helps them optimize their event housing. With Passkey, Foxwoods can:

  • Offer group attendees online booking through custom event websites
  • Drive ancillary revenues from up-selling hotel services and amenities to group attendees
  • Establish better room block-optimization and reduce attrition exposure and wash
  • Offer planners access to real-time pick-up and booking pace reports
  • Upload rooming lists in any format

"The staff at Passkey has been extremely flexible to our internal needs as we get ready to launch the first 2-way interface allowing a seamless process of booking groups through Passkey and our own call center," said Debra Pyles, Director of Reservations and Guest Services at Foxwoods. "We will have no need to re-key reservations. We are ready to take the traditional group reservation process to the next level as we customize attendee websites, and provide them with the most updated technology in the market.

About Passkey

Passkey is the worldwide leader in online group reservations. The Boston-based technology company offers event planners and providers a powerful web-based application to optimize group hotel reservations. The heart of the Passkey system is an innovative online booking engine that lets group attendees make and manage their hotel reservations online in the contracted group block, while allowing event planners and hotels to access real-time reports and event information. Offered as an onDemand solution, Passkey delivers benchmark speed, security and scalability.

The Passkey-enabled global network consists of over 85% of major U.S. Convention and Visitors Bureaus (CVBs), as well as thousands of hotels, trade associations, corporate meeting planners, and meeting management companies. Passkey investors include: Lazard Technology Partners, and DRV Investments, LLC.

About Foxwoods

Foxwoods Resort Casino®, the world's largest casino, owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, is the ultimate casino resort destination on the East Coast, offering over 7,000 slots, 380 table games, the only WPT World Poker Room™ and High Stakes Bingo in New England plus the Ultimate Racebook all conveniently located under one roof. With 1,400 luxurious hotel rooms and suites, over 50 sumptuous restaurants and retail outlets, a 1,400 seat theater and 55,000 square feet of superior meeting space, Foxwoods is the premiere destination for the business or leisure traveler. Lake of Isles™, rated America's Best New Golf Course by Golf Digest, is located directly adjacent to the property. The highly anticipated MGM Grand at Foxwoods® will open Spring of 2008 and feature 825 ultramodern, technologically advanced hotel rooms with world class amenities reminiscent of the Las Vegas style landmark, including 115,000 additional square feet of meeting space, cutting-edge business communications capabilities, a state-of-the-art 4,000 seat Performing Arts Theater and exciting new dining, retail, gaming and luxurious spa facilities.

Foxwoods is easily accessible from Boston, New York, Hartford and Providence and only minutes away from Mystic and Long Island Sound. For more information call 1-800-FOXWOODS or visit us at

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