First-of-its-Kind Online Golf Resort Tee Time and Lodging Reservation System Now Available at Forest of Arden Country Club and Dalmahoy Country Club
Orlando, FL – August 21, 2006 – Marriott Golf, the world’s largest resort golf management company, today announced that the "Rounds & Rooms" program is now available for select properties in the UK, including Forest of Arden Country Club in England and Dalmahoy Country Club in Scotland. A first-of-its-kind golf resort reservation system designed to simplify travel planning by allowing golfers to simultaneously book tee times and hotel rooms, "Rounds & Rooms" is now being offered at a total of 21 properties and 28 courses worldwide.
Available at www.marriottgolf.com, golfers can select a participating golf resort and book their tee times and hotel rooms instantly online. The new service marks the first time a collection of leading golf resort properties, based throughout the world, have come together to offer a one-stop booking solution that includes both tee times and lodging. Marriott Golf, the golf management organization of Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE:MAR), is offering this service in collaboration with GolfHero, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based global technology leader in the golf travel industry, and EZLinks, operator of the world’s largest network for golf reservations.
"We are happy to announce the addition of these elite UK golf properties to the Rounds & Rooms program," said Tom Enders, Director of Marketing, Marriott Golf. "While the program has been very successful to date, the addition of these prestigious UK-based clubs to our portfolio of destinations significantly enhances Rounds & Rooms on a worldwide scale."
In addition to the UK properties, the golf resorts participating in "Rounds & Rooms" include: Camelback Golf Club (Scottsdale, AZ), Cattails at MeadowView (Kingsport, TN), Willow Crest Golf Club (Oak Brook, IL), Crane’s Landing Golf Club (Lincolnshire, IL), Doral Golf Resort (Miami, FL), The Frog Golf Club (Villa Rica, GA), Griffin Gate Golf Resort (Lexington, KY), Hawk’s Landing Golf Club, Grande Pines Golf Club and The Faldo Golf Institute (Orlando, FL), The Rookery at Marco (Naples, FL), Mirage City Golf Club (Cairo, Egypt), Royal St. Kitts Golf Club (Basseterre, St. Kitts), Seaview Golf Resort (Galloway, NJ), Stone Mountain Golf Club (Stone Mountain, GA), Desert Springs Golf Resort and Shadow Ridge Golf Club (Palm Desert, CA), Westfields Golf Club (Clifton, VA) and Wildfire Golf Club (Phoenix, AZ).
About Marriott Golf
Marriott Golf currently manages 60 golf courses at 45 facilities in 14 countries, offering more than 1,000 holes of championship golf. Marriott has been managing golf operations since 1970 and is currently one of the largest resort golf operators in the United States. Marriott provides golf management and consulting services to a variety of operational environments including resort, private club, daily fee, golf school and franchises.
About GolfHero
GolfHero is the first totally online packaging solution for the golf travel industry. GolfHero is a division of TravelHero, well known within the travel industry as one of the top ten online travel portals in North America, with offices in Scottsdale, AZ.
About EZLinks
Founded in 1995, EZLinks Golf, Inc. operates the world’s largest network for golf reservations, as well as the highest volume tee time call center in the industry. EZLinks provides tee sheet management software, 24-hour live-operator reservations support, customizable web booking tools, database marketing applications, integrated point-of-sale services, and a regional association handicap system to over 900 golf facilities, hotels and travel companies worldwide.
MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL, INC. (NYSE:MAR) is a leading lodging company with more than 2,600 lodging properties in the United States and 65 other countries and territories. Marriott International operates and franchises hotels under the Marriott, JW Marriott, Renaissance, Bulgari, The Ritz-Carlton, Courtyard, Residence Inn, SpringHill Suites, TownePlace Suites, and Fairfield Inn brand names; develops and operates vacation ownership resorts under the Marriott Vacation Club International, Horizons, The Ritz-Carlton Club and Marriott Grand Residence Club brands; operates Marriott Executive Apartments; provides furnished corporate housing through its Marriott ExecuStay division; and operates conference centers. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is ranked as the lodging industry’s most admired company and one of the best places to work for by Fortune® magazine. In fiscal year 2004, Marriott International reported sales from continuing operations of $10 billion, and the company had approximately 133,000 employees at year-end 2004. For more information or reservations, please visit our web site at www.marriott.com.
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