Year of Managed Spend™ Contest to Discover the Most Deserving Corporate Travel Buyer

Dallas – 30th June 2010 – Lanyon, Inc. (www.lanyon.com) today announced the Year of Managed Spend contest to find the most deserving corporate travel buyer who will receive a full year of Lanyon Total Hospitality Spend Management.  Corporate travel buyers can enter the contest by going online at www.yearofmanagedspend.com and explaining why their firm should win.

The contest is open to corporate travel buyers of hospitality services (transient, long-term stay, meetings and events).  The winner will be announced at the conclusion of the 2010 NBTA Convention in Houston, TX.  The winning firm will have full use of Lanyon’s Total Hospitality Spend Management, which covers transient stays, meetings and events, engagements and projects and includes rate integrity capabilities.  Total Hospitality is the first and only industry solution that allows corporate travel buyers to source hospitality services and manage their spend through a single, unified system.

Total Hospitality™ gives travel buyers significant advantages, including: a simplified sourcing process; access to the industry’s largest rich database of hotel properties, covering all hospitality spend categories; unified data capture and reporting; ability to capture and leverage enterprise spend for  increased global savings; and transparent spend visibility across all categories.

“We are excited to launch the Year of Managed Spend contest and expect to receive insightful comments from travel buyers about their current hospitality management processes, together with examples of how Total Hospitality is enabling them to increase savings through process improvements”, said Todd Tyler, President & Chief Executive Officer for Lanyon.   

Total Hospitality is an integrated service, accessible to travel buyers through their browser, which helps them manage all hospitality spend categories.  They can source properties by location, category, ratings, and many other criteria.  There is a rich set of information for each property, including detailed descriptions of features and amenities, meeting rooms, event space, services and transportation – in many cases including photos and videos.  

The contest is open to qualified corporate travel buyers until August 11, 2010.  To enter the contest, visit www.yearofmanagedspend.com.

About Lanyon
For 26 years, Lanyon has been delivering exceptional content distribution technologies to the travel industry. Today, Lanyon is the recognized leader both in content management solutions for the hotel industry and sourcing and procurement solutions for corporate travel buyers.  From its early success with GDS publishing and productivity tools to its RFP solutions for hotels, consortia and corporations, Lanyon solutions are used globally to reduce data management costs, effectively manage and distribute hotel content, and efficiently connect corporate travel buyers with hospitality suppliers.

Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, many car rental companies, travel management companies, airlines, and over 80,000 hotels worldwide now rely on Lanyon.

Contact
For further information please contact:

Michael Boult
Chief Commercial Officer
Lanyon, Inc.
104 Decker Court, Suite 110
Irving, Texas 75062
Phone:    +1 (817) 226-5656
Fax:    +1 (866) 840-9987
[email protected]

To learn more about Lanyon, visit http://www.lanyon.com