WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
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Sabre Holdings
"We are focused on offering a great travel experience and being champions for
our customers, whether it is during the planning process or when travelers are
on their trip. VRX offers rich, dynamic, visual content that complements our
comprehensive content strategy and helps travelers make more informed
purchasing decisions." |
| Josh Feuerstein, SVP and Hotel Segment Manager |
Hyatt Corporation
"VRX's coverage of our domestic properties has now been integrated into our
corporate website and we are very pleased with its exceptional quality,
detailed coverage, and user-friendly functionality. In a short period of time
the content has proven useful in helping guests choose Hyatt and select from
the various accommodation options that each Hyatt hotel offers. Based upon the
success of the program with Hyatt Corporation, and to provide a consistent
presentation of all our hotels across the entire Hyatt brand, we have decided
to utilize the expertise of VRX for all our international hotels as well." |
| Joan Lowell, Vice President, Electronic Distribution. |
Hyatt Hotels
"With so many of our customers researching their hotel options on-line prior to
making their reservations, we want to be sure we are providing comprehensive,
high-quality visual coverage that conveys the experience, facilities and
accommodations found at Hyatt hotels and resorts. Our agreement with VRX
affords us a low-risk opportunity to provide our customers with a uniform
presentation of high-quality, consistently formatted virtual tours and still
images for over 120 properties. With the content certified by Hyatt and kept
current by VRX, we look forward to confidently offering consumers fresh
content, at all times, across all our on-line channels." |
| Joan Lowell, Vice President of Electronic Distribution |
Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc
"VRX's exceptional visual content not only captures viewers attention, but by
being kept current and by being certified by Starwood Hawaii, provides our
clients the consistent information and confidence necessary to book a room at
any of our outstanding hotels or resorts. VRX's content is a truly powerful
presentation tool." |
| Michael Troy, Director of Marketing, CRM |
Carnival Cruise Lines
"We have utilized VRX's rich media content on our website for over 4 years and
have seen first hand the powerful impact it has on a traveler's booking
decisions. Now that VRX is making its Cruise Content available to all
intermediaries, participating cruise lines such as Carnival stand to benefit
from VRX's extensive experience creating, syndicating, and managing dynamic,
high quality, rich media. As a result, travel consumers will be able to
confidently research and compare their cruising options on all participating
travel sites. Everything else equal, we expect this booking confidence will
translate into a competitive advantage for participating cruise lines such as
Carnival." |
| Diana Rodriguez-Velazquez, director of Internet marketing |
Kimpton Hotel and Restaurant Group
"To showcase our unique collection of lifestyle hotels, we selected VRX because
of their uncompromising commitment to quality, rich history of working with
leading travel brands, proven infrastructure, and experienced staff." |
| Jimmy Suh, Vice President, Revenue Management and Distribution |
Carnival Cruise Lines
"Managing expectations is critical to any vacation experience. The visual
content provided by VRX provides visitors to our web site with a comprehensive
overview of the 'Fun Ship' fleet, allowing our guests and travel agent partners
to make informed choices regarding accommodation categories and onboard
amenities and facilities. |
| Diana Rodriguez-Velazquez |
Holland America Line
"We make every effort to make each voyage memorable for each of our guests. To
show the world our spacious staterooms, exceptional dining areas, and the
variety of premium public spaces onboard our ships, we turned to VRX, the
industry leader in creating and syndicating high quality, web-friendly, online
visual content." |
| Rick Meadows, Senior Vice President Marketing and Sales |
Sandals and Beaches Resorts
"We have worked with VRX for over 4 years and have come to respect and rely on
their uncompromising commitment to quality and their relentless pursuit of
innovation in the industry. VRX sets the benchmark that we compare all other
content providers to." |
| Tony Cortizas, Director of Advertising, Unique Vacations Inc. |
Days Inns - Canada, a division of Realstar Hospitality.
"We are keenly aware of the impact that quality content has on the online
decision making process. Having seen the quality of the content that VRX has
created for other clients, we were pleased to engage VRX to work with our
franchisees. We look forward to adding our new VRX images to our online and
offline marketing material." |
| Melissa Kenney, Director of Marketing |
Viator
"The breadth and depth of Viator’s global activity portfolio enables travelers
to experience more at their destination. We believe adding compelling visual
content from VRX’s extensive archive of destination content will increase
consumers’ anticipation, excitement, and booking confidence." |
| Rod Cuthbert, founder and CEO |
Trisept Solutions
"Over the last two years, our clients have successfully utilized VRX's
Destination Content on their websites. Joining VRX's new Hotel Program enables
our customers to deploy the same high quality, reliable content to secure
accommodation bookings." |
| John Ische, President |
The Venetian Hotel
"Luxury is the cornerstone of everything we offer. We aspire to meet the needs
of those searching for exceptional hospitality, shopping, gaming, and dining.
Our first class services and resort facilities demand first class coverage, to
this end we have sought out the best of the best to work with." |
| Rom Hendler, Vice President of Strategic Marketing |
Escapes.ca
"VRX's Hotel Content provides extensive and accurate coverage of the top hotels
in each of our primary markets. This is a powerful tool that will help our
experienced agents ensure our customers' expectations are fulfilled." |
| Sean Rollinson, Marketing Manager |
The Visitor Center
"VRX's Destination Content has been a great tool for helping travelers identify
where they want to go and what they want to see. We expect VRX's Hotel Content
will be just as powerful a tool in helping travelers decide where they want to
stay. For many consumers, choosing the right hotel can be frustrating, and in
some cases, a disappointing experience. Due to the quality and coverage of VRX
Hotel Content, we are confident it will help reduce consumers' frustrations and
help ensure their expectations are met upon arrival at their hotel." |
| Ben Reubenstein, CTO |
HotelsbyCity.com
"Our objective is simply to improve the process of searching and reviewing
hotel options online. In researching the available tools that help consumers
research and select the accommodation options that best meet their needs, none
are as effective, simple, and seamless as VRX's. We are confident that VRX's
Hotel and Destination Content will help build consumer confidence, customer
loyalty - and our online sales." |
| Andrew Loewen, President and Co-Founder |
Hawaiian Vacations
“Managing a customer's expectations is critical to a successful vacation and no
expectations are more salient than accommodation. Selecting the right hotel or
resort can be the difference between a good vacation and a great vacation. The
quality, coverage, and functionality of VRX's Hotel Content is by the far the
best that we've seen and we are confident that our customers will find it a
powerful tool for selecting their perfect vacation.” " |
| Melissa Proulx, Hawaiian Travel Specialist |
The Kessler Collection
"Working with VRX, we will be able to capture the true ambiance and character
that is intrinsic in the theme of each of our hotels, and be able to present to
the online travel audience the many features that make each of our properties
so special and unique" |
| Doug Smith, Corporate Director of Sales |
Couples Resorts
"VRX's new Hotel Program will not only help us showcase our resorts using
today's highest quality, user-friendly, interactive content but it has also
become a critical component of our online distribution and marketing strategy." |
| Randy Russell, Senior Vice President |
Joie de Vivre
"VRX has a unique talent for capturing the atmosphere and ambiance of hotels.
This talent, combined with their new hotel certification and syndication
program, will change the face of online travel marketing. We are excited to be
one of the initial partners to endorse VRX's efforts to improve consumers'
online experience." |
| Sandy Baldonado, Brand Marketing Director |
Castle Resorts
"We believe that showcasing our many accommodation options using high-quality,
web-friendly visual content is critical to building consumer confidence in the
online booking process and in increasing customer loyalty. VRX partners with us
to meet our customers' needs, helping ensure that each of our visitor's
vacation in paradise meets their expectations, making their dreams come true." |
| Maura Jordan, Vice President of Marketing |
Outrigger
"Compelling visual content helps consumers explore, interact and confirm their
travel decisions. By providing high quality photographs, virtual tours and
interactive maps, Outrigger and OHANA offer potential guests a means to set
realistic expectations about their Hawaiian hospitality experience - before
they arrive." |
| Bill Sthay, Vice President of Interactive Commerce |
Melrose Hotel Company
"Our management team consistently works to find the most sophisticated
solutions and best possible partners for the company. VRX is an excellent fit." |
| John J. DePaul, President and Chief Executive Officer |
ebookers plc
"The quality of VRX's visual content is unrivaled and a logical complement to
ebookers' technical and market expertise. We look forward to providing our
viewers with yet another compelling reason to visit our websites." |
| Yashish Dahia, head UK business |
Hawaiian Airlines
"VRX's impressive content helps to create purchase confidence - this confidence
will make our growth objectives that much easier to attain." |
| Gordon P. Locke, Senior VP of Marketing and Sales |
Divi Resorts
"At Divi Resorts we know the Caribbean and what it takes to deliver a memorable
vacation experience. We know the island is just as important as the hotel that
someone stays at, so we've developed online island and hotel guides to help
consumers find their perfect resort. VRX's stunning images are the final piece
as they are the perfect compliment to our online guides. Together, they will
help educate consumers, ensuring they may confident travel decisions." |
| Anne Ens, E-Commerce Manager |
The Curaçao Tourism Development Bureau
"The Internet is proving a powerful medium for providing in-depth information
vacation destinations. VRX has proven to be an outstanding partner; their
skilled photographers have done an incredible job of capturing and expressing
beauty and charm of Curaçao while their technical staffs have made the
integration process quick and seamless. VRX has made our vision a reality, we
are now able to convey the riches of our heritage, the beauty of our beaches,
and the warmth of our people." |
| James Hepple, Executive Director |
Air Canada Vacations
"Successful online initiatives require both compelling visual content and an
effective means of initiating and completing a transaction. VRX's unique
content solutions provide high quality user-friendly destination related
content in a manner that helps to educate consumers and provide valuable
information." |
| Ms. Manon Leblanc, Director Communications |
Club Intrawest
"VRX has provided us with the best online content in the competitive vacation
ownership marketplace. VRX's innovative rich media technologies offer our
customers the opportunity to easily and quickly preview the accommodations and
attractions offered by each resort before they arrive. Being able to manage
members' expectations is an important step for us in creating a memorable
vacation experience for each of our members." |
| Craig Oliver, Web Envisioneer |
Air Jamaica
"VRX's virtual tours and interactive maps are an exciting new feature on the
Air Jamaica web site which caters to our ever-growing clientele of web-savvy
holiday travelers, who will now be able to virtually explore many of the
beaches and attractions of our 14 Caribbean Destinations, as they plan their
itineraries. We are proud to have VRX handling this aspect of our website. We
are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to bring Jamaica and our
Caribbean, into the homes and offices of our passengers, before and after their
Air Jamaica experience, and VRX does this very well." |
| Gregg Truman, Marketing and Advertising Director |
Trisept
"VRX and Trisept share a common vision of creating cutting edge products that
transform industries and markets. Quality and functionality are the core of any
successful product and we are confident that VRX's interactive maps and virtual
tours will meet Trisept's demanding benchmarks in this regard." |
| John Ische, President |
OfficialTravelGuide.com
"In our search for Best-of-Breed providers, VRX Studios stood out among the
many. The quality and usability of VRX's products met and exceeded the criteria
that we set for a virtual tour and interactive map provider. We are very
pleased to be able to offer IACVB' members such a dynamic and effective online
marketing tool." |
| Donovan Shia, President, USDM.ne |
NYC and Company
"We're excited about integrating VRX Studios' virtual tours into the
comprehensive interactive street map of New York City on our new web site.
Potential visitors can now plot a course through New York City to reach a
desired attraction while being able to preview the attractions with rich
interactive media." |
| Keith Yazmir, Head of Communication |
Tourism Vancouver
"Our partnership with VRX will allow us to take yet another step in online
marketing initiative for the benefit of our members and customers. Our members
now have the opportunity to showcase their businesses to the 100,000-plus
tourists who frequent the Tourism Vancouver website every month. Ultimately,
we'll have one of the most compelling online offerings with comprehensive
content in an incredibly user friendly format." |
| Mary Prefontaine, Director of Business and Government Relations |
GOGO Worldwide Vacations
"We are committed to providing travel agents with an industry-leading online
travel resource that puts extensive travel content at their fingertips and can
help them sell more of GOGO's extensive product line of vacation packages. The
unrivalled quality, coverage, and format of VRX's stunning visual content fit
perfectly with our existing strategy. VRX's content will be a significant
component of the information that we provide for each destination." |
| Michele Catalano, Sr. Interactive Marketing Director |
BDOT
"Earlier this year we incorporated VRX's interactive maps and high-quality
virtual tours into our website. The response we received from travel consumers
was tremendous and encouraged us to explore other ways of leveraging VRX's
technology to help our online marketing efforts. Expanding the use of VRX's
technology to help promote our hospitality members' properties was the next
logical step and we expect a number of our members will take part in the
program. There simply is no better way to showcase a resort." |
| Michael DeCouto, Manager Communications |
Virgin Holidays
"VRX's images will add enormous value not only to the research stage of
planning a vacation but in the booking process as well. Because VRX's virtual
tours provide the experience of almost being there, we believe our customers
will have insight and confidence in the Virgin Holidays vacation they are about
to embark upon." |
| Nigel Smith, Director of Systems and Administration |
BWIA West Indies Airways
"In the face of increased competition within the travel industry, effective
online marketing is a cornerstone to success. When it comes to online travel
and tourism marketing, VRX offers an exceptional product that captures the
spirit and beauty of the Caribbean. We look forward to future product rollouts
from this exciting new company." |
| Joanne Edwards, Acting Director Marketing |
Hawaiian Visitors and Convention Bureau
"Today the Internet is one of the most cost-effective mechanisms for marketing
what Mark Twain once described as the 'loveliest fleet of islands anchored by
any ocean'. The combination of VRX's interactive maps and high quality virtual
tours provides a wealth of information for travel consumers that will be the
cornerstone of the content of our website, GoHawaii.com." |
| Todd Low, Interactive Marketing Manager |
O'ahu Visitors Bureau
"With the Internet playing an increasingly important role in the marketing of
vacation destinations, high quality informative content such as VRX's virtual
tours and interactive maps is a must for all online travel initiatives. VRX's
extensive archive of stunning virtual content from the island of O'ahu is an
ideal way to showcase the splendors of O'ahu." |
| Les Enderton, Executive Director |
TVCI
"VRX's interactive maps and virtual tours, with their compact file size, and
exceptional quality make the VRX content an integral part of our online
strategy. We are confident that VRX's dynamic visual content will help turn
viewers into purchasers." |
| Steve Nicol, President |
Virgin Travelstore
"The spectacular quality and detail of VRX's visual content is ideal for this
purpose. The quality, format and functionality of VRX's virtual tours and
interactive maps puts their content in a league of their own - it's exactly
what Virgin Travelstore needs to promote its monthly features." |
| Brett Warbrick, Head of E-Commerce |
Liberty Travel
"Visual Content is a key component to the purchasing decision. The unrivaled
quality, coverage and format of VRX's stunning content made our decision easy.
We look forward to working with VRX Studios and shaping the future of online
travel." |
| Michele Catalano, Sr. Content Director |
The Auto Club Group
"VRX's dynamic visual content is the ideal tool for enabling our members to
explore and research travel destinations before making a purchase decision. The
quality and format of VRX's 360-degree virtual tours are the best we've seen.
VRX has done a great job of making it easy to navigate between them by
integrating them into friendly interactive maps. We're very excited to add this
new feature to our online travel offerings." |
| Peg Cicci, Internet Travel Manager |
Tourism Bermuda
"VRX Studios' dynamic visual content is the perfect complement to our newly
redesigned website that was developed to reinforce and enhance Bermuda's
reputation as a world-class luxury destination. Bermuda's lush tropical
gardens, pink sand beaches, European charm and spectacular sunsets are too
magnificent not to share by using VRX's technology." |
| Hon, David H Allen, Minister of Tourism |
CMS
"VRX's images and drill-down maps will work well with our existing travel
content by adding an additional tool to support travel consumers in their goal
to identify and purchase a travel-related product or service. It has a positive
impact on users, as it doesn't require any special downloads and is visually
engaging. As such, it's a superior marketing tool and warrants being included
on our travel sites." |
| Nina Jankauskas, Interactive Travel Product Manager |