Supranational Hotels Ltd. Who We Are

1. Supranational Hotels Ltd. Distribution & You Who We Are Technology Sales/Marketing

2. Existing Direct Sales Channels For a typical hotel, direct sales channels may include: • Tour Operators • Group business: Weddings, functions, MICE • Direct Bookings: Walk-ins, Telephone bookings • Local businesses (companies booking directly) • OTAs (On-line Travel Agents) which you go to their websites and update – extranets. For example Booking.com or Expedia. The above remains and continues to be your own business.

3. Electronic Sales Channels • Hotels can reach the global market by connecting to: • GDS (Global Distribution System) – used by travel agents to book flights, hotels and cars for their clients, mainly business travellers; • IDS (Internet Distribution System) – used by OTAs, travel websites etc., for business & leisure travellers (e.g. Lastminute, Opodo, Orbitz, Expedia, etc.); • Using a Booking Engine on your website; • OTAs via our Gateway – XML Direct Connect This is where Supranational Hotels can help!

4. The Sales Picture GatewayDirect Connect Extranets GDS Tour Operators Supranational Hotels CRS Hotel Groups IDS Local Businesses Call Centres Booking Engines Direct Bookings

5. GDS (Global Distribution System) Information on Room Availability, rates, hotel content and images are distributed via our Columbus CRS (Central Reservation System) to over 600,000 travel agents worldwide using GDS. ABACUS

6. Why GDS? • Global Distribution: • used by 600,000 travel agents worldwide • Bookings made for business travellers (air, hotel, car) • for public rates and “negotiated rates” • powering OTAs such as Expedia and Lastminute • enable photos to be distributed • Started in the 60s, still an indispensable channel for bookings, • especially, for negotiated rates. • Visit http://www.amadeus.netas an example !

7. Why GDS? 2. Better Return • Normally higher rates are booked • Much higher revenue than selling to tour operators • More “total spent” by business travellers • Business travels are less affected by high/low seasons, fill weekdays 3. Secure More Business • Companies tend to specify which hotels their employees are allowed to use • If you are in their “Preferred Hotel Programmes”, you will secure more business • Local deals can be extended to include their global sister companies

8. IDS (Internet Distribution System) A term to describe thousands of Internet Hotel Booking Websites, powered by GDS and Pegasus Solutions. ODD – Online Distribution Database

9. Why IDS? • Thousands of OTAs can see and book your hotel if you are on the system. • Cover both business and leisure markets. • Distribute both public and negotiated rates. • Enable hotel to reach out to individuals. • Gain maximum exposure. • Part of a hotel’s sales & marketing strategy – being visible is the first step! • Travellers may then “Google” to find your own website or telephone number to book! – a so called “Billboard Effect” We connect you to the IDS via ODD (On-line Distribution Database), where thousands of OTAs are linked to.

10. Gateway Direct Connect • It is challenging for hotels to devote time to update OTAs’ extranets. • Gateway XML Direct Connect links our CRS to these websites’ systems directly. • Hotels can update rates and availability on our CRS to cover various channels such as GDS, IDS, booking engines, travel websites all at the same time (channel management). • Saving hotels’ time and resources. Lower booking fees! • Easier for hotels to police rate parity and availability parity. Less mistakes. • Easier also for travel websites to manage and they receive incentive too!

11. Why Booking Engine? • Capture your audience. Visitors on your site can book rooms right away! • No need to manage a separate pool of rooms. This can be part of the whole availability for GDS, IDS and other electronic channels. • Supranational offers to set up standard Booking Engine free of charge for member properties. • Tailored design to fit in with ‘look & feel’. (e.g. http://www.hotelguldsmeden.dk). • Multilingual: Danish, English, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian • You can also sell non-room products too!

12. Call Centre Distribution • Call Centre Network for Voice Bookings callers from: Austria - Belgium Denmark - Finland France - Germany The Netherlands - Ireland Italy - Norway Portugal - Spain Sweden - Switzerland UK - Lebanon North America - South America

13. Supranational’s Website Website for public: http://www.supranational.com Essential booking tool for public, agents and businesses Essential branding facility - your hotel logo(s) Advertising campaigns for new hotels Advertising campaign for promotional rates Image Library

14. Company Background • Established in 1974 by Grand Hotels in Denmark • Set up by hoteliers, for hoteliers. • The Board of Directors are from 7 hotel groups (Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Middle East, Norway & Spain) • Partnership with hotels • Record industry membership 36 years! • Average 20 years! • Portfolio: Over 900 hotel members, in over 75 countries • 3 to 5 star, Business & Leisure hotels • Key city and secondary destinations

15. The Supranational Family… International: Scandinavia:

16. The Supranational Family… Europe: Africa, Middle East, Asia:

17. The Supranational Team • London (HQ), Canada, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy & Spain • 12 nationalities speaking 7 languages • In-house support & advice - System technology support - Sales & marketing; RFP process - Data Loading & management • Advice, reviews to maximise booking potential • Local reservation offices & help desk • All with extensive travel industry knowledge!

18. Sales and Marketing Services • Marketing Communications Collateral • Sales Activities • Contracting Management Service • GDS Marketing/Competitor Analysis • Public Relations Services • Dedicated Corporate Account Management • Supranational’s Web Technology

19. Sales and Marketing Team • Teams in London, Germany, Sweden, North America • Promote member hotels to: - Multinational Companies - Travel Management Companies - Consortia and Travel Agencies • Direct Sales & Marketing: - Sales Calls - Exhibitions - Workshops - Presentations - Partner activities - Road-Shows - Seminars - Invitations - Annual Conference - Agent/Corporate Evenings

20. Sales and Marketing • Indirect Sales & Marketing: - Electronic Directory - Periodic Newsletter (whatsnew@supranational) - Agent Promotion - Leisure Programme - Advertising, including GDS banner advertisement placement - PR-news • Direct Marketing: - Email campaigns - Mailings

21. Marketing Communication Agency Newsletter: “whatsnew@supranational” A Monthly bulletin. Audience: Consortia & Agencies Content: Introduce new hotels Promotional rates & campaigns Agency opinion polls Hotel news Supranational corporate activities

22. Marketing Communication Fact sheets: • One-page information sheet on each of the Supranational groups, with own sub-chain codes • Provides a snap-shot of hotel locations, classification and contact details. • Distributed to Consortia, agencies, corporations, Supranational reservation centres and staff.

23. GDS Electronic Marketing • Target a powerful customer base through 600,000 terminals via the 4 GDS: Sabre, Galileo, Worldspan and Amadeus • Text messages and promotional descriptions to enhance awareness of your hotel product, thereby encouraging travel agents to sell it. • Expert advice on free and paid advertising campaigns. • Direct dealings with the GDS via Supranational.

24. TMC & Corporate RFPs • Personal Contacts with Travel Managers at TMCs (Travel Management Companies) and Corporates – Global level; • Contracting Management Services - Assist members in participating in Hotel Programmes by invitations or RFPs (Request for Proposals); • Partnership with Lanyon, offering discounted rate to use their Content Control Centre tool for RFPs; • Acceptance rate in hotel programmes at 96% • Assist with rate negotiations, solicited and unsolicited bids

25. Consortia Contracting • Examples of consortia preferred rate programmes we participate in: ABC ATP BCD Travel BSI Carson Wagonlit Travel CCRA Custom Travel System DERTour DERHotel.com Ehotel AG FCM Travel Solutions GTMC HRG ITP JTB Lufthansa City Centre LCCI PMN (IAPA) Radius SATO TBB EMEA THOR TravelGraphics International Travel Savers WIN (Worldwide Independent Travel Network)

26. Corporate Contracting • Examples of corporate we account manage/work with: ABB Entertainment AON Canon Accenture Entory AG Reuters CISCO AXA Barclays BASF Bayer BAE Systems BP Chevron Ebay Catepillar Daimler AG Deutsche Post EON Dupont EDS Ericsson Honeywell Henkel General Electric EU IMF Motorola Nokia Peugeot Linde Philips Kraft Foods Lockheed Price Waterhouse Reuters SAAB Nestle Sun Microsystems Shell SAP Siemens Porter &Gamble Sony Unilever Vodafone Toyota Wella Yahoo World Bank J&J

27. Supranational’s Website http://www.supranational.com has 2 sections: • Members’ Area • Public area containing corporate information Communication platform with members and the public • Essential marketing tool for branding • Tools, tips, training movies for Members • One-Stop information centre

28. Members’ Area This is where a hotel member can: • Access the CRS to update rates and availability • Download bookings if necessary • Download monthly booking statistics and reports • Download manuals, user guides and training movies • Access information on consortia hotel programmes, download RFP’s • Access Lanyon for RFP returns • View useful industry news, tips and advice

29. Hotel Members Support • A central & personalised point of contact • European presence with HQ in London • North American presence - takes over when Europe closes business • Local account management (Germany, North America, UK, Scandinavia) • 12 nationalities speaking 7 languages • In-house support & advice - System technology support - Sales & marketing • Global reservation offices & help desk • Frequent Booking Reporting, Performance Review and Remedy

30. Technology Overview • Columbus NG CRS – The Heart of Distribution

32. Rates and Availability Management • We build your hotel in the Systems to ensure accuracy before going “live.” • Effortless management of: - Dynamic Rate changing & Channel Management; - Opening and closing of rate levels and room types; - Yield, by minimum length of stay, restricted arrival date, maximum length of stay etc; - Addition revenue by offering non-room items • Changes instantly updated on the GDS and ADS. • User Friendly Interface. • We have our own developers, ensuring full control in further system development, functions and system enhancement. • Twice awarded “Best Technology Provider” by Amadeus. Training is offered to maximise benefits.

33. Columbus Next Generation (NG) • Next Generation CRS with the latest technology. • Built-in Multi-Channel Management function. • Power Next Generation Booking Engine to enable hotels to sell non-room items on their websites. • E-concierge • Dynamic Packaging • Web-based call centre • Flexible reporting

34. Marketing Intelligence • Frequent Management Reports for forecast & budgets • Consolidates by hotel group & by property • Per Hotel per rate code • Per hotel per source • Per hotel summary by commission • Consolidated per travel agent • Per hotel per reservation • Per travel agent per reservation with commission • Per country summary • A selection of 1122 different reports on request ! • They are updated weekly/monthly and can be downloaded from our website.

35. Figures for thoughts • Our weekly reports enable hotels to look ahead. • Are we up or down on pre-bookings compared with last year? • Why? • Are our rates too high compared with last year’s? • Have we closed out too soon? • In spring, should we open up a promotional rate for the summer to attract more bookings?

36. Technological Benefits Technology & distribution: • Next Generation Seamless online availability & reservation • Optional Interface Solution - One or two way communication to major PMS systems - XML specification available • Dedicated Supranational intranet for all members • Public & Corporate Online platform : www.supranational.com • Group codes for hotel groups who want to retain their identity • XML Direct Connect (Gateway) to our CRS by travel dot-coms • Full Private Label distribution for hotel groups (e.g. MM for Maritim Hotels)

37. Booking Engine • An increasingly important booking source, for visitors browsing through hotel’s own website. We offer: • Booking engines for Groups and Individual hotels to facilitate on-line bookings.

38. Booking Engine Or.. A Tailor-made web booking engine for Groups and Individual hotels

39. Next Gen Booking - powered by NG

40. Our Membership • Tailored Packages to suit Different Hotels: • Whether you are a business, or leisure hotel • Whether you are in city centre, or in other locations • Whether you are already on GDS or not

41. Our Membership • 4 distinctive packages to choose from, to suit the needs of each hotel member or hotel groups: GDS & IDS/OTA, IBE, Gateway distribution & connectivity plus full marketing facilities GDS & IDS/OTA, IBE, Gateway distribution & connectivity plus selected marketing facilities Webservice – IDS/OTA, IBE, Gateway Direct Connect to OTAs Distribution solution - GDS & IDS/OTA, IBE, Gateway distribution and connectivity only

42. Key Positioning Messages • Retain Supranational’s position as a leading travel technologyprovider in the hotel reservation arena • First to develop own CRS system in 1980 • First to adopt the latest “next-generation seamless” technology • First to offer complete pricing functionality • Competitive feespremium services and connectivity to all sales channels with minimum investment from members • Sales & MarketingPowerful International brand recognised amongst mega travel agencies and multinational corporations • Customer FocusedEvery hotel member is important to us • We customise our service to suit your needs and requirements accordingly!

43. Conclusions • The most versatile reservation technology • Full hotel content to maximise booking opportunities • Full electronic/internet channel coverage • Appropriate advice to help you understand the rules in a fast moving and complex industry, and to maximise potential • The best tools to succeed & be ahead of competition • Leverage on an international sales network of existing members to increase brand awareness and revenue • We are a co-op, not-for-profit company set up by hoteliers for hoteliers.

44. Benefits to Members • Industrial knowledge36 years strong business profile; Leverage on Supranational’s expert knowledge and competence • Highly cost-effective technology - Reduces expenditure and increases revenue • Increase Bookings: High return on investment Reports and statistical data at your fingertips • Easy ManagementManage availability and rates effortlessly • We look after your distribution - Enable you to focus on local marketing and to serve/retain your guests • Global Presence • Full Members’ Support - Centralised customer care

45. Further Benefits • Sophisticated monthly statistics - monitoring your revenue streams, planning ahead, formulation of strategies; • Branding - Powerful international brand recognised amongst mega agencies and multinational Corporates; Opportunities for hotel groups to brand (Group-Code). • Independence • You are in control of your hotel content, rates, availability and marketing messages • Supranational preserves and strengthens your hotel’s brand integrity • Commission Processing Services • Last but not least– We are very flexible and will find the best way to serve you! • Be a part of the second largest hotel consortia (Hotel Magazine August 2009)

46. Let’s Explore Further, Together Please contact us at: Supranational Hotels Ltd. The Butlers Wharf Building 36 Shad Thames London SE1 2YE +44 (0)20 7357 0770 http://www.supranational.com

47. Thank You! “With Supranational Hotels, you’re always in good company!”