Atlanta, Georgia – June 24, 2009 – HBSi announced today the activation of their interface with Fairmont Hotels & Resorts (Fairmont), a leading global luxury hotel brand.

HBSi is providing enhanced connectivity between Fairmont and many of their tour operator partners, wholesalers and other electronic distribution channels such as Travelocity, US Air Vacations and Travel Impressions. Using the iDemand Gateway enables Fairmont to instantaneously transmit their room availability, rates and inventory to members of the HBSi Demand Partner Network (DPN). In addition, this interface fully automates reservation delivery so Fairmont properties will no longer be required to manually enter faxed or emailed reservations from these channels. The HBSi connection promotes accuracy and more efficient processes for both the hotels and their distributors.

“We are excited to add HBSi connectivity to the services we offer to our hotels. The tremendous advantages of using the HBSi connection to our CRS in order to provide our properties with direct connectivity to electronic distribution are of significant value.” said Brian Richardson, VP Marketing for Fairmont Hotels & Resorts. “Our partners now have the option to check availability and deliver reservations through a real-time electronic connection, which results in greater opportunities and increased productivity for our hotels.”

“I am exceptionally pleased to add Fairmont Hotels & Resorts to our growing Supply Partner Network; their worldwide portfolio, one which continues to expand, makes Fairmont the first truly global supply partner to go live on our system. With their extraordinary reputation, we are confident that all current and future members of our Demand Partner Network will be as excited as we are to work with them” said HBSi COO Greg Berman. “Our growth plan for this year of adding international supply is clearly succeeding,” concluded Berman.

HBSi’s iDemand GatewayTM solution connects hotels chiefly with tour operators and the world’s largest online travel agencies to streamline the flow of transactions. For some customers, HBSi eliminates time-consuming, error-prone processes associated with manually managing multiple extranets that provide distribution channels access to the very latest rates, inventory and, in many cases, last room availability.

For more automated customers, the HBSi solution dramatically enhances merchandising capabilities so they can offer more products in more innovative ways. HBSi’s flexible solution provides robust interfaces to legacy and leading-edge systems to suit each customer’s needs, increasing revenues and streamlining operations.

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