SRS-WORLDHOTELS Continues its Leadership Role in the Development Of Sales Technology for the Hotel Industry

NEW YORK, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- SRS-WORLDHOTELS, a portfolio of nearly
400 hotels spanning 65 countries, announced today the acquisition of Hotel RFP
Solutions, the leading technology for electronic Request For Proposals, from
JBH Travel Audit, Inc. As an innovator in hotel technology, Hotel RFP
Solutions will further foster new sales technology in the hotel industry and
provide valuable resources for individual hotels, major hotel groups and hotel
consortia.

Hotel RFP Solutions will be integrated into Nexus World Services, a new
cutting- edge sales technology company that has been formed by
SRS-WORLDHOTELS. As a subsidiary of SRS-WORLDHOTELS, Nexus World Services
will operate from its dedicated main office in Denver, providing all hotel
clients absolute security and protection of proprietary data. The new company
will oversee management of web-based Hotel RFP Solutions while also further
developing tools for the hotel industry including a data collection module and
a single platform sales account management system. Future plans include the
creation of an interface to an automated rate loading module and a web-based
consortia RFP module.

One of our most vital tenets as a company is to be a leader in
sales-related technology in order to better serve our clients and the hotel
industry. In today's competitive environment we are challenged to meet the
ever more complex needs of the industry, said Ed Brill, senior vice president
of the Americas for SRS-WORLDHOTELS. SRS-WORLDHOTELS has always been a
pioneer, developing new technology such as TRUST International, a state of the
art reservation processing system, as well as our own internal account
management software, NEXUS. The purchase of Hotel RFP Solutions, the creation
of Nexus World Services and our advances with regard to RFP tools represent
another example of the steps we take to maintain a leadership position in the
industry.

Hotel RFP Solutions was originally developed for the individual hotelier
and hotel chains as a way to ease the management of the corporate RFP process
as designated by the National Business Travel Association (NBTA). The basis
for the content of Hotel RFP Solutions is NBTA's standardized RFP form, both
the established form and the newer form recently released by NBTA, which
allows hotels to use the tools that they are familiar with while making the
RFP process faster, more flexible and easier to navigate. Additionally, it
offers a Corporate Viewer that facilitates a hotel group's management,
initiation and monitoring of the RFP process within its regional sales offices
and member properties by providing a complete overview of activity.

With a network of almost 400 hotels worldwide, SRS-WORLDHOTELS offers
three highly recognizable collections of hotels, including The Deluxe
Collection, hotels of refined elegance an luxurious comfort; The First Class
Collection, hotels of casual elegance, superior class and high quality; and
The Comfort Collection, hotels characterized by a casual ambiance, intimate
atmosphere and moderate price.

For more information on Hotel RFP Solutions, call Glenn Erickson, director
of business development for Nexus World Services, at 303-988-1364. For more
information on SRS-WORLDHOTELS, call 212-956-0200 or visit the SRS-WORLDHOTELS
website at http://www.srs-worldhotels.com.


SOURCE SRS-WORLDHOTELS

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