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UtellŪ Hotels & Resorts Appoints New Mexico City Business Partner
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DALLAS (Oct. 9, 2007) —Utell Hotels & Resorts, a
service of Pegasus Solutions Inc., today announced
that it has appointed new business partner, Teresa Nuņez, to drive demand from Mexican travel agencies
to Utell’s extensive portfolio of more than 3,600
hotels worldwide.
As a business partner, Nuņez will work to drive
outbound travel to Utell hotels around the world and
will also apply her local expertise to drive
bookings to Mexican Utell hotels.
“This partnership with Teresa Nuņez underlines
Utell’s commitment to the growing outbound and
domestic Mexican hotel market,” said Diana Banks,
senior vice president, sales and marketing, Utell
Hotels & Resorts. “We are pleased to be working with
Teresa and her depth of experience will enable us to
cultivate our presence within the growing Mexican
travel market.”
Teresa Nuņez brings to the role a wealth of
experience with Utell having previously worked for
the company for more than 19 years. Since her
previous role at Utell, Nuņez has been working as a
consultant to hotel marketing and demand sales
staffs around the world, providing local support to
both travel agencies and hotels.
“Utell’s extensive portfolio of hotels and ability
to cater to niche markets present a unique value
proposition to travelers,” said Nuņez. “The Mexican
travel market has not been widely exposed to many of
the new features Utell has recently introduced and I
am looking forward to using my knowledge of both
Utell and the Mexican travel industry to help expand
awareness of the brand to travel agencies, tour
operators and event planners around the country."
The Utell Hotels & Resorts service enables hotel
groups and independent properties to be available on
the four major Global Distribution Systems (GDS) and
on more than 1,000 Web sites worldwide. The service
provides a central reservation system (CRS),
marketing programs, representation through Pegasus’
network of call centers, promotion to travel agents
through a dedicated sales force and local business
partners, “preferred supplier” status through nearly
40 leading travel agencies worldwide and revenue,
yield and channel management guidance from the Utell
team.
About Utell Hotels and Resorts
Utell Hotels & Resorts, a service of Pegasus
Solutions, has a portfolio of 3,600 hotels in more
than 130 countries worldwide, offering diverse
products and services to suit every traveler’s
accommodation needs, whether they are travelling for
business or leisure. Established more than 75 years
ago, Utell is regarded by travel agents as ‘the
hotel people’ and look to us when organising hotels
for their customers.
About Pegasus
Dallas-based Pegasus Solutions, Inc. is a global
leader in providing technology and services to
hotels and travel distributors. Founded in 1989,
Pegasus’ customers include a majority of the world’s
travel agencies and more than 78,000 hotel
properties around the globe. Pegasus’ services
include central reservation systems, electronic
distribution services, commission processing and
payment services, and marketing representation
services, including the consumer Web site,
www.hotelbook.com. The company’s representation
services, including UtellŪ Hotels & Resorts and
Unirez by Pegasus™, are used by more
than 9,300 member hotels in more than 130 countries,
making Pegasus the hotel industry’s largest
third-party marketing and reservations provider.
Pegasus has 16 offices in 11 countries, including
regional hubs in London, Singapore and Scottsdale,
Arizona. For more information, please visit
www.pegs.com. |
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