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For Immediate Release
Date: July 23, 2008


Contact: Pam Walrond
Director of Marketing
InnLink, LLC
PH: 615-264-8087
pam.walrond@innlink.com

STR provides InnLink Central Reservation Service Customers with STAR Report


STR will provide InnLink customers who submit consumed data with a STAR Report. The STAR Report compares a hotel’s occupancy, ADR and revPAR numbers against aggregate figures from the local market and a competitive set of the hotel’s choosing. The complementary Lodging Survey is also made available to all InnLink hotels.


STAR Reports provide a hotel with the competitive intelligence to make the right marketplace decisions.  Dennis Cummings, Director of Revenue Management, Settle Inn, GuestHouse Int'l and Shoney's Inn explains, “We use STR Reports daily in the Revenue Management department to determine where our properties are in the marketplace and what adjustments they need to make.  Our goal is to raise the STR Indexes to ensure we get more than our fair share of the business.” 

InnLink has an extensive base of properties across the US that do not report data for STR. InnLink will assist STR with gathering additional independent and chain property reporting from their customers.
InnLink Central Reservation Service and STR, both leaders in their respective areas of the hospitality industry, are also neighbors located just blocks from each other in Hendersonville, TN.

About InnLINK, LLC:

Founded in 1991, InnLink specializes in the processing of reservations for hotels and hotel companies using vLINK: comprehensive private-label voice reservations; eLINK: electronic connectivity for GDS and OTA reservations; iLINK: an integrated private label Booking Engine; gLINK: Group Reservation Services. ONtarget Revenue Consulting: Revenue Management Consulting and Marketing Programs and RESmatrix: Customer Tools for Data, Rate and Inventory Management. InnLink maximizes channel-managed, reservation revenue streams for over 1200 hotels, resorts, inns, condominiums and extended-stay properties.

To learn more about InnLink’s products and services visit www.innlink.com  or contact Pam Walrond, Director, Marketing at 615-264-8087 or pam.walrond@innlink.com.

About STR & STR Global:
For more than 20 years, STR has been the recognized leader for lodging industry benchmarking and research. STR and STR Global offer monthly, weekly, and daily STAR benchmarking reports to more than 36,000 hotel clients, representing nearly 5 million rooms worldwide.  With the formation of STR Global, these companies will be the world’s foremost sources of historical lodging performance trends and will offer the definitive global hotel database and development pipeline. STR is headquartered in Hendersonville, Tenn., and STR Global is based in London, with a satellite office in Singapore. For more information, visit www.smithtravelresearch.com or www.strglobal.com.

To learn more about STR products and services visit www.smithtravelresearch.com  or contact Lindsay Culbreath at 615-824-8664 x317 or Lindsay@smithtravelresearch.com

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