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DALLAS and LONDON
(February 13, 2008) —
Pegasus Solutions, Inc. and Leonardo Media today
announced they have entered into an agreement to
create ContentHubTM,
a comprehensive hotel content management solution.
The new service, to be formally introduced in three
weeks at ITB Berlin 2008, is designed to provide
hotels
with a single
environment to manage and distribute all of their
online hotel content.
ContentHub will enable hotels to seamlessly access,
update and manage their images and text, and then
distribute the content to the many channels
supported by both Pegasus and Leonardo. This
enhanced content management service will also enable
hotels to take full advantage of the numerous
multi-media tools available to ensure their content
is up-to-date and compelling.
“This
agreement between Pegasus and Leonardo brings
together two best-in-breed industry leaders to
provide the optimum in content management,”
said Tore
Wick, vice president of business development,
Pegasus distribution services. “With Pegasus’ proven
online distribution database (ODD) and Leonardo’s
exceptional quality of media content and
distribution, we will bring customers a truly
comprehensive content management solution that
enables them, for the first time, to effectively
manage both images and text.”
ContentHub’s single
interface enables hotels to manage and
distribute their
content in a consistent manner to all channels,
including the global distribution systems (GDSs),
major travel Web sites, search engines, tour
operators and travel consortia. This enables hotels
to have consistency of content across a wider range
of distribution channels, along with improved
quality and freshness of content. In addition, the
ContentHub will allow hotels to fully optimize their
content to truly represent their brand on a global
scale with multi-lingual capabilities incorporated
into the text and images.
“Today, visual content is imperative for hotels to
have,” said David Elton, CEO, Leonardo Media. “To
reach their consumers, hoteliers must efficiently
manage images, text and video, and quickly move this
content across multiple distribution channels.
Managing this process is a daunting and expensive
challenge. ContentHub eliminates these issues and
delivers quality and consistency of brand content
and unmatched distribution reach at a very
affordable price.”
The Pegasus/Leonardo
ContentHub will be introduced at ITB Berlin on March
5, 2008. For more information, or a demonstration,
please visit Pegasus stand number 111 located in
hall 8.1.
About Pegasus
Dallas-based Pegasus Solutions, Inc. is a global
leader in providing technology and services to
hotels and travel distributors. Founded in 1989,
Pegasus’ customers include a majority of the world’s
travel agencies and more than 78,000 hotel
properties around the globe. Pegasus’ services
include central reservation systems, electronic
distribution services, commission processing and
payment services, and marketing representation
services, including the consumer Web site,
www.hotelbook.com. The
company’s representation services, including Utell®
Hotels & Resorts and Unirez by Pegasus™, are used by
more than 9,300 member hotels in more than 130
countries, making Pegasus the hotel industry’s
largest third-party marketing and reservations
provider. Pegasus has 16 offices in 11 countries,
including regional hubs in London, Singapore and
Scottsdale, Arizona. For more information, please
visit
www.pegs.com.
About
Leonardo
Leonardo are innovators in travel content
management, emarketing and distribution across the
global travel network. Leonardo’s solutions are
designed to simplify the management and optimization
of rich media content and provide a one stop shop
for all travel channels to receive the latest and
up-to-date digital content in the format that they
require. Leonardo
manages rich media content for over 65,000 hotels
and has contracts in place with 150 global hotel
brands.
Its major travel
channel partners include Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre,
Worldspan, Pegasus, WizCom, Worldres along with
Google, Yahoo!, Orbitz, Kayak and NorthStar Travel
Media. For more information, please visit
www.leonardo.com |