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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Virginia Beach CVB Selects Passkey for Planners Virginia Beach, VA, Quincy, MA - May 30, 2006 - The Virginia Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) recently selected Passkey, the industry leader for online group reservations management, to better provide the tools and amenities needed by meeting planners. “This is a very exciting development for us and for our clients,” said Teri Wiley, Virginia Beach CVB senior convention & tourism service manager. “Passkey is the standard in the industry, and our clients want this product to provide easy and efficient online housing for their meeting attendees. It’s a great benefit for our clients and also for our hotel partners.” Through Passkey, the Virginia Beach CVB can now provide meeting
planners with: "Offering Passkey is just another way to show our clients that we value them and the success of their events,” explained Al Hutchinson, Virginia Beach CVB director of convention sales. “This will enable us to deliver higher customer satisfaction and will further distinguish Virginia Beach from our competitors in the meeting and convention marketplace." Passkey will play a key role in ensuring the success for Virginia Beach’s future meetings and conventions. To date, the new Convention Center has 116 conferences, meetings, sporting events, etc. booked through 2012, with an estimated $175 million economic impact. “We are very pleased to partner with Virginia Beach CVB,” said Paul Rantilla, Passkey’s senior vice president of sales. “They are listening to what their meeting planners and hotel partners want. Passkey is an easy-to-use housing solution that will help them streamline their housing management process, especially with today’s challenges of attrition exposure and book-arounds.” About Virginia Beach CVB: About Passkey: The Passkey-enabledSM global network consists of over 85% of major U.S. Convention and Visitors Bureaus (CVBs) that offer housing, as well as thousands of hotels, trade associations, corporate meeting planners, and meeting management companies. Passkey investors include: Lazard Technology Partners;; Galileo (NYSE: GLC) (www.galileo.com); Worldspan (www.worldspan.com); TravelCLICK (www.travelclick.net) and DRV Investments, LLC.
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