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Lodging Interactive, a leading Internet marketing, website design and hosting firm for the hospitality industry, today announced that it has launched, MyWebsitePromotions, a revolutionary new online marketing service which enables hoteliers to manage their own website promotions and packages without the aide of a webmaster.

Has added six new hotels to its brand. These new hotels stretch from West to East with new properties in Hawaii, Chicago, New York, Paris and Greece.

Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. (NYSE: OEH - News) announced today the acquisition of the El Encanto Hotel and Garden Villas in Santa Barbara, California for $26 million.

Third Quarter Net Earnings Up 40% Over Prior Year

Compared with this time last year, when travel was still being affected by the SARS epidemic and the war with Iraq, business is booming. However, shares of travel-related stocks have stumbled. In the last month, while the S&P 500 is up nearly 1%, the Dow Jones Lodging Index is down about 3%.

Preferred Hotels® & Resorts Worldwide awarded the world-famous Parisian landmark, La Trémoille as Hotel of the Year for 2004.

Recovery in Demand Seen in All Markets

Due to market conditions, CNL Hotels & Resorts, Inc., the nation's second-largest hotel real estate investment trust, has determined that it is appropriate to postpone its firm underwritten offering and listing.

www.CNLHospitalityWatch.info has been updated to include an analysis of CNL Hospitality's (CHO) initial public offering, according to UNITE HERE!, the merged union of hotel employees and textile workers.

Orient-Express Hotels announced that its fourth hotel in Italy, Hotel Caruso in Ravello, which overlooks the spectacular Gulf of Salerno on the Amalfi coast, is due to open on June 21 2005.