Pelican System to provide engine for the 2008 FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix website for official hotel and race ticket packages

Pelican System, with its proven track record of clients from 36 countries, will provide a complete end-to-end solution for all hotel reservation needs including marketing to hotels to encourage participation, set-up, user training and maintenance.

“By partnering with Pelican System, will be able to offer visitors a complete hotel and race package for the convenience of racing fans. All reservations will be confirmed real-time and handled by the hotels directly to ensure a smoother booking process,” said Michael Roche, Executive Director of Singapore GP Pte Ltd.

Pelican System will also provide an extranet for participating hotels so they can adjust rates and allotment to maximize their revenue potential. Hotels will be able to offer additional amenities and services such as meals, extra beds, or champagne. Hotels will be able to generate a fully customisable reservation report, complete with rooming lists, to track room inventory status and even receive an alert when room inventory reach a pre-set minimum threshold.

The hotel package reservation system will be up on by February 2008.

About Pelican System | Pelican System is an internet-based central hotel reservation system with software designed for hotels to manage online reservations (whether made directly by guests or through travel agents and corporate clients).

Pelican System - Hotel Reservation System - offers a wide range of products, such as a booking engine/reservation system for hotel own website, a central reservation system and call center reservation system, all featuring customised upgrading and optional features to specifically meet each hotel’s individual needs and requirements.

A booking engine/reservation system and central reservation system is primarily useful for accommodating online reservations through a hotel’s own website with instant confirmation.

Call Center Reservation System - enabling hotels to accommodate offline reservations while pulling all incoming inquiry calls to a call center office and having integrated consistent information on rates, availability, packages of all hotel members.

Pelican System offices are in Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, USA and Mexico. For more information on Pelican System please visit our website at

About FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix | The inaugural FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix will take place on 28 September 2008 on a street circuit of public roads around the Marina Bay area. The race will be the first held at night in FORMULA 1™ history. Three-day Corporate Hospitality Suite packages were launched on 28 November 2007, with sale of three-day passes to the public due to start in mid January 2008. Single-day passes will be released for sale just before the Chinese New Year, subject to available inventory.

About Singapore GP Pte Ltd | Singapore GP Pte Ltd is the race promoter for the 2008 FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix. It holds five-year renewable rights to stage the Singapore Grand Prix, beginning with the 2008 Season. The company is a partnership between Komoco Motors and regional events company Lushington Entertainments, via its parent company Reef Enterprises.