Galt House Hotel to Empower its Meeting Planners with Passkey’s Cutting-Edge Event Technology

Louisville, KY – August 17, 2009 – Passkey, the worldwide leader in group online hotel reservations, today announced the Galt House Hotel (“Galt House”) has signed on to provide meeting planners with an all-around convenient booking experience. With Passkey, Galt House Hotel offers meeting planners a real-time view into their group blocks and eliminates the classic frustration associated with group reservations.

Galt House Hotel, predominantly a convention/group property, generates over 80% of its business from meetings and events. With Passkey’s set of online tools, not only will Galt House automate the entire reservation process internally, increasing efficiencies and customer service levels, but it will cater to meeting planner’s needs and provide total control over event housing.

"Galt House is excited to partner with Passkey to enhance the overall meeting planner’s experience with our hotel,” said Lisa Haller, Galt House Hotel’s Executive Director of Sales and Marketing. “Passkey is an unparalleled and convenient tool that our hotel will provide as a complimentary benefit to our planners and their attendees, exhibitors, staff and VIPs."

Specifically, meeting planners will receive a live snapshot breakdown of their event blocks via Passkey’s Event Dashboards. With just a glance, planners can track their entire event activity such as reservation pace, group analysis trends and also submit and modify rooming lists securely, all in one simple interactive screen. Best of all, planners can now focus on being pro-active as well as practice a stress-free housing process without the fear of attrition exposure.

"Without a doubt, we’ve experienced a win-win situation with Passkey,” said Mary Mohlenkamp, Galt House Passkey Project Manager. “Galt House wins with an easy implementation of the Passkey product, while our hotel’s meeting planners and attendees win as a result of Passkey’s comprehensive meeting planning tools and user-friendly online reservation process."

Galt House Hotel is the largest single property in the Louisville-area offering Passkey as its group reservations solution. Passkey is available at no cost for all planners utilizing Galt House facilities.

About Galt House Hotel
Galt House Hotel, The Heart of Louisville, is one of the largest hotels in the Southeast, with 1,290 guest rooms and suites, 124,000 square-feet of convention space, and more than 50 meeting rooms. The hotel features the rooftop Club 360° Fitness Center with sweeping views of the skyline and waterfront, and the Conservatory, a three-story ‘Crystal Jewel’ that connects the hotel’s two towers. In all, the Galt House features seven full-service restaurants and lounges, including RIVUE, a 25th floor revolving, rooftop restaurant, with amazing cuisine. For reservations, call 1-800-THE-GALT, or visit www.GaltHouse.com.

About Passkey
Passkey is the worldwide leader in online group reservations. The Boston-based technology company offers meeting destinations, hotels and planners a powerful web-based solution for managing group hotel reservations. The heart of the Passkey system is an innovative online booking engine that lets group attendees make their hotel reservations online in the contracted group block, while allowing event planners and hotels to access real-time reports and event information. Offered as an onDemand solution, Passkey delivers benchmark speed, security and scalability.

The Passkey-enabled global network includes over 85% of major U.S. Convention and Visitors Bureaus (CVBs), as well as thousands of hotels, trade associations, meeting planners and meeting management companies.