Westlodge and SECURE-RES Launch Ahoteldeal.com
MARCH 27, 2007. SECURE-RES is proud to announce the launch of www.ahoteldeal.com for the Westlodge property portal. Westmont is the world's largest property management company and this portal will help market their discounted properties. 'We are looking forward to our partnership with SECURE-RES as we grow ahoteldeal.com into a branded website of its own,' says Joe Maddux, Director of Operations at Westlodge Hospitality.
This project involved design development of a scalable e-commerce portal with an integrated multi-property booking engine. 'At SECURE-RES we are thrilled to have this first opportunity to work with Westlodge and we expect the new portal will exceed the goals Westlodge has determined for the campaign,' says Don Bosworth, VP of Sales at SECURE-RES.
Within the first week of its launch, there was a significant amount of reservations made. This portal was developed to widen the search engine visibility of Westlodge's discount properties, while creating one of the company's most profitable revenue channels.
'We are very excited to partner with Westlodge Hospitality,' says Jack Feeney, Regional Sales Manager at SECURE-RES. 'We are confident that our marketing program will increase the visibility of Westlodge properties significantly and, more importantly, drive more direct reservations through www.ahoteldeal.com.'
Westmont envisions an expansion of the new portal. 'We plan to phase other Westmont properties into this website very soon, including a variety of the 16 brands we operate. After we expand the number of properties within our own system, we will then have a model in which other hotels will be able to participate. The more participating properties we have will not only improve our presence on the Web, but also enable increased cooperative marketing to further boost production at ahoteldeal.com,' says Maddux.
Westlodge chose SECURE-RES as a vendor for their project because they believed that SECURE-RES best understood the depth of Westlodge's requirements for generating significant online production in the limited service and discount property genre.
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