ARTEH launches a new CRS – Central Reservation System for its hotels

Lisbon, September 1st, 2005 – ARTEH – Hotels and Resorts launches a new Online Reservation System.

The Arteh CRS – Central Reservation System, the most sophisticated Online Reservation System, besides the "on request" and "voice" functions, to be maintained, provides its clients with a great amount of information, and, simultaneously, allows the Promotion and Distribution of the Arteh Hotels in the most powerful Distribution Channels.

With the new Arteh CRS – Central Reservation System, reservations for ARTEH Hotels can now be made online, without further delays, at www.arteh-hotels.com.

The new Arteh CRS – Central Reservation System, allows the distribution of the ARTEH Hotels through the main Travel Sites and Directories, Search Engines, Airline Websites, Travel Agents and Reservation Centres - Retail WebSites, Merchant WebSites, such as Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, TravelWeb, and Lodging.com, and Opaque WebSites, such as Priceline and Hotwire all over the world.

With the Arteh IDS partners, the main distributors of rooms in the world can be found, with a world market share that exceeds 80%, according to eTRAK.

The Reservation System will also be integrated into the GDS - Global Distribution System which allows the distribution of ARTEH Hotels over the four world systems – Amadeus, Worldspan, Galileo and Sabre. These are connected to 176 000 Travel Agents all over the world, with a total of 600 000 GDS terminals.

With this Platform ARTEH® now provides a powerful Room Management Tool to all its hotels and guarantees its presence in all the Worldwide Room Distribution Channels.