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Summer 2003
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Top Ten Cities Chosen by Meeting Planners | 
Of the top ten cities based on unique meeting requests for hotel room nights made by meeting planners in 2002, New York, Chicago and Phoenix/Scottsdale showed the highest increase in requests versus those made in 2001.
Used by more than 7,000 corporate travel and meeting planners, StarCite.com reported record growth of 165% in Q1-2003, citing more than $108.2 million in RFP opportunities for hotels. At this pace, StarCite projects to deliver nearly $500 million in revenue opportunities to hotels in 2003, representing a huge growth opportunity for advertisers using TravelCLICK's Group Media Network, which features StarCite media.
(Graph) Source: StarCite
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First Quarter, 2003 Performance Review
In the first quarter of 2003, hotels worldwide experienced 4.6% growth in room nights booked electronically, in comparison to the same period last year.
Revenue for the first quarter of 2003 was up 3.6%, and average rate declined 0.9%. "The growth in room nights was largely driven by room nights booked by consumers over Internet sites," said Bruce W. Mainzer, senior vice president of marketing for TravelCLICK.
Effective with this first quarter review, TravelCLICK's eMonitor data now includes electronic bookings made through third party Internet sites powered by Pegasus, as well as bookings made through the Amadeus, Galileo, Worldspan and Sabre GDSs.
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Study Shows Hotelligence Users Gain $100K in Incremental Revenue
|  In a recent performance analysis of 14,215 hotels, TravelCLICK reported that Hotelligence subscribers consistently outpeformed their non-subscribing competitors by an average of nine revenue market share percentage points. The value of this incremental market share was an average of $96,883 in annual GDS revenue per Hotelligence subscribing property in 2002.
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