WorldHotels Selects ICE Portal for E-Marketing & Distribution
FRANKFURT, Germany, February 4, 2006. WorldHotels has selected ICE Portal (ICE) to provide production, hosting and distribution of rich media content for nearly 500 hotels in 70 countries. ICE will help WORLDHOTELS manage and distribute rich media content, including virtual tours, via ICE's extensive network of travel sites and search engines.
ICE will provide all WorldHotels with customized content delivery their brand sites and to 1,000s of third party travel sites.
"In our continuing efforts to provide the best options for our hotels to get rich media produced, hosted and delivered to 1,000 Internet distribution channels," said WORLDHOTELS Chief Marketing Officer, Nicole Bernthaler, "ICE was the obvious choice for us."
"Today, because rapidly increasing numbers of travelers research and buy travel on-line, it's become vital that hotel marketers manage their best sales visuals in one central database," explained ICE Pres. Henry Woodman, "Now, with the new ICE-Leonardo alliance we manage, host and deliver more content to more distribution channels than anyone."
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