Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, Oxon (8 June 2005) – WebRes the leading Internet based reservation and operational management technology which is powering the latest trend setting venture from serial entrepreneur Stelios founder of easyJet and easyGroup goes live 10 days early and within budget.

easyHotel brings a completely new low cost approach to accommodation in city centres and the first London hotel is centrally located in South Kensington.

easyHotel, the third Stelios venture to use Entee WebRes technology, will be providing the reservation and check-in services and was implemented within 8 weeks of being ordered.

WebRes for Hotels can support both conventional and low cost business models and the easyHotel implementation incorporates the proven WebRes yield curve feature which allows pricing to be driven by demand and time.

WebRes, the technology driving the new concept for hotels was designed and developed by Entee Global Services Ltd (www.entee.co.uk), part of the 2morrow Group based in Oxfordshire. WebRes design and development incorporates more than 250 man years of experience in high performance real-time computing and travel industry knowledge to bring together integrated world beating travel technology.

Richard Yeo, Chief Technology Officer for easyGroup said, “We chose Entee because of their proven track record in developing high-throughput transportation reservation systems and the previous relationship with easyGroup. They demonstrated a good understanding of what we were trying to achieve and delivered a good quality solution on time and to budget”.

Customers making reservations at easyHotels (www.easyHotel.com) site will shuttle their way though the booking process utilising easy to use drop-down boxes and defaults making the site user friendly; all within a secure environment using front-end MS 2003 servers, Thwate Digital Certificate technology for secure credit card payments and user account transactions.

“The WebRes technology implementation for easyHotel took approximately 8 weeks to configure, build and test, said Janette Stephens, Chief Operating Officer of the 2Morrow Group.

The WebRes architecture is built exclusively on Internet technology and incorporates the Microsoft server and relational database architectures to meet the high performance requirements demanded by easyBus.

WebRes is designed to meet the low cost business model and is particularly appropriate to new start up organisations.

Stephens added, “WebRes is being adopted on a global basis by forward looking organisations in all types of travel transportation sectors. You will find our technology in the ferry, train, hotel, cruise, bus and flight markets; adding hotels to our portfolio, and working with easyHotel is not only exciting, but also demonstrates the confidence easyGroup has in 2morrow Group abilities, technology and support."

Contacts:
Janette Stephens, Chief Operating Officer
2Morrow Group
+44 1235 845 100
janettes@2morrowgroup.com