EHBOX The Online Booking Engine

Through a partnership with RateTiger, EHBOX has built an XML white-labeled RateTiger channel manager into its new back office, offering expansive online distribution and selling capabilities to partner hotels. The Updater allows hotels to update rates and inventory across all selected sales channels using a single interface. With access to more than 400 true channels, RateTiger provides EHBOX with access to more Web sites than any other booking engine currently in the marketplace. The integration also consolidates all Internet sales in one accessible location as bookings can be reported back from the channels connected into EHBOX.

“Our overall goal is to make life easier for hoteliers,” said Diane Merians, director of distribution for EHBOX. “With the Updater, hoteliers have a single point of contact for online revenue management– from loading rates to checking bookings.”

EHBOX is utilizing RTConnect to meet new channel management demands that encapsulates the complicated logic of integration between the various systems. The interface will allow hotels to include all contracted channels (small and large) into the distribution strategy while sparing unnecessary data entry.

About EHBOX:
EHBOX is a reservations system that enables hotels to have a more intimate relationship with their guests. Designed to match the look and feel of the hotel website, the system was created after years of research and input from hoteliers and GDS experts. With a separate section for travel agents and another for hotel guests, the system offers an ideal level of communication with hotel target markets. In addition, EHBOX is connected to more than 350 affiliates. For more information, please visit http://www.ehbox.com.

About RateTiger:
RateTiger, by eRevMax Inc., has been a leader in online distribution management tools since 2001 and continues to pioneer new technologies for the hospitality industry. Operating in 60 countries and 415 cities across the world RateTiger has become the industry-wide benchmark for managing online distribution. A Platinum European Seal of E-Excellence for the marketing of innovation award-winner, the RateTiger product portfolio enables hoteliers to switch from a time-consuming and complicated multi-channel process to a single point of entry to the market.

RateTiger is headquartered in New Jersey, U.S., EMEA HQ in London, UK, technical development center in India and six offices in mainland Europe. RateTiger employs more than 170 people across the globe. RateTiger is rapidly expanding across the European and American markets. For more information please visit http://www.ratetiger.com.

The collection of the finest, independently owned lodges and boutique hotels of Argentina and Brazil joins forces with Epoque Hotels and elects its state-of-the-art booking engine EHBOX

Miami, FL, February February 25^th 2009 – Ten Rivers & Ten Lakes, the largest collection of boutique hotels in the region with more than 130 properties in Argentina and Brazil, has chosen to rely on EHBOX to operate as booking engine in its website. Through this alliance, the two companies will also complement efforts of marketing, sales, technology and services for all of the establishments.

The substantial gain for each hotel of the Ten Rivers & Ten Lakes circuit, is to benefit from a new channel and commercial backup through Epoque Hotels, enlarging the international visibility of each establishment and reservations obtaining new opportunities, through the site and the head office of reserves of Epoque Hotels.

Finally, by agreement of both companies, EHBOX, Epoque Hotels‘ online reservation system will be integrated in the entirety of tenriverstenlakes.com website, allowing each establishment to place and administer through one single booking engine its availabilities and rates, by means of a straightforward and inclusive system.

EHBOX is a technologically-advanced booking engine for the hotel industry developed and distributed by the programmers of Epoque Hotels, the representation company that includes 350 of the most impressive boutique hotels in the world. Thanks to this partnership, not only EHBOX will be employed as the preferred booking interface in the Ten Rivers & Ten Lakes website, but also the two companies will cooperate in terms of marketing and worldwide promotion in a strategic alliance.

“We are very excited about this partnership;” says Juan Palmada, Vice President of Epoque Hotels. “We have just started launching EHBOX and being in Ten Rivers & Ten Lakes website is a great achievement and privilege for us. Furthermore,” continues Palmada, “both of our companies will be able to benefit of each other’s expertise in the field, while developing new markets”.

The 130 + properties of Ten Rivers & Ten Lakes are currently being loaded in the EHBOX system and the migration will be completed by the end of April.

About Ten Rivers & Ten Lakes

Ten Rivers & Ten Lakes, founded in 2002 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, comprises of 31 members in Argentina and about 100 in Brazil. From the southernmost city of the world – Ushuaia, to the north of Brazil, the company offers resorts in Patagonia, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, San Pablo, Bahia, and the best of the countryside in Argentina and Brazil. For more information, please visit www.tenriverstenlakes.com

About Epoque Hotels and EHBox

Epoque Hotels is a collection of more than 350 avant-garde, trendy-chic and luxury-classic boutique hotels in over 100 destinations worldwide. Established in 2002 and headquartered in Miami, Florida the company also has sales offices in Italy, The United Kingdom, Spain and China. For more information, please visit www.epoquehotels.com and www.ehbox.com