Adam's Mark, Accor and Outrigger Hotels and Resorts Join Growing Group of WizCom EasyAccess HOD Users.

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PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2001

New EasyAccess HOD 1.1 Release Offers High-Level Administration

Capabilities

Adam's Mark Hotels & Resorts, Accor Hotels and Outrigger Hotels and Resorts are among a diverse and expanding group of hotel industry leaders to adopt WizCom's EasyAccess HOD product, which allows companies to easily update their hotel description information within the four major GDSs simultaneously through WizCom's single point of entry system.

WizCom also announced the release of EasyAccess HOD 1.1 with enhanced administration capabilities.

"From hotel chains to representation companies, the fast-growing number of EasyAccess HOD users worldwide speaks to the fact that WizCom incorporated customer feedback on the initial EasyAccess HOD design to develop a product that addresses the technical needs of our diverse customer base," said Flo Lugli, President of WizCom. "We are also pleased to release an update to EasyAccess HOD with greater functionality based on additional customer feedback."

EasyAccess HOD reduces operational costs for customers by serving as a centralized data entry point to the GDSs and leading Internet sites. With the release of EasyAccess HOD version 1.1, the product will now allow hotel chain headquarters level personnel more flexibility in allowing access to HOD information at the management company or property level.

"With more than 3,500 hotels and 400,000 rooms in 90 countries, we immediately realized how EasyAccess HOD will enable us to update and maintain our hotel description information in a very cost-efficient way," said Alain Bergerat, Automation Marketing Manager of Accor Hotels.

"EasyAccess HOD will provide us with enhanced hotel description updating capabilities across all our units, and is a definite competitive advantage," said Mark Lowery, Corporate Director of Reservation Services for Adam's Mark Hotels & Resorts.

EasyAccess HOD is a part of the WizCom EasyAccess Plus suite of products designed for the hospitality industry to manage information distribution more effectively and cost-efficiently.

Headquartered in St. Louis, Adam's Mark Hotels & Resorts is an upscale, quality-tier hotel chain that ranks as one of the largest independently owned and operated companies in the hospitality industry with more than 13,000 rooms and one million square feet of meeting space in 14 states.

Accor is the European leader and one of the world's largest providers of travel and tourism-related services in 90 countries across the globe. With 145,000 associates in 140 countries, Accor is the European leader and one of the world's largest groups in travel, tourism and corporate services, with two major international activities:

 - hotels: more than 3,500 hotels (400,000 rooms) in 90 countries, travel agencies, restaurants and casinos;  - services to corporate clients and public institutions: each day, 12 million people in 31 countries use a broad range of services (Food Vouchers, People's Care, Expenses Management, Social Services, Incentive / Events) engineered and managed by Accor. 

WizCom International, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cendant Corporation (NYSE: CD), is a leading global provider of electronic reservations processing and information management systems for the travel industry. WizCom provides its hotel, car rental, and tour / leisure travel customers with innovative, flexible and cost-effective electronic distribution and e-commerce solutions for the Internet, GDS and / or other travel reservation systems. Established in 1987, WizCom has an extensive customer base with more than 90 hotel companies and over 25 car rental firms operating in more than forty countries worldwide.