e-destinACCESS: The Destination Services Technology Solution

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

e-destinACCESS, Inc. and EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffeured Services form a Strategic Alliance Signaling a Shift in Paradigm for Sourcing, Planning, Scheduling and Purchasing Transportation Nationwide

August 27, 2009

e-destinACCESS, Inc. a destination management technology company and EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffeured Services, a leading Global transportation provider and innovator in transportation technology, today announced a strategic alliance, facilitating a shift in the way Meeting Planners can source, plan, schedule and purchase their transportation needs anywhere, at anytime.

Utilizing e-dmc, e-destinACCESS Inc’s proprietary patent-pending software, planners will be able to create passenger manifests, vehicle schedules, and departure notices in just minutes, automatically generating Purchase Orders that will be immediately sent to EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffeured Services for the flawless execution of the Arrival and Departure service.
In addition, the processing power of e-dmc is provided at no cost to the planner and presents all services by EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffeured Services at their net published rates. This strategic alliance serves the planning community well, with transparency in pricing and accountability through the auto-generated operational reports from e-dmc and the detailed delivery of service by EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffeured Services.
Answering the call of Meeting Planners for better, more accessible technology that is easy to use, saves time and money and delivers the goods and services with the expected expertise, e-destinACCESS, Inc and EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffeured Services are solving the challenges of today with innovation and tools for the future.

About EmpireCLS
EmpireCLS is one of the largest chauffeured transportation companies in the world, operating in more than 650 cities around the globe. More than transportation from point A to point B, EmpireCLS has built a reputation for providing a luxurious and comfortable transportation experience beyond the ride. This experience encompasses not only the physical transportation, but also the myriad tools and services that make client interactions with EmpireCLS simple, effortless, secure, comfortable and consistent. For more information, visit www.EmpireCLS.com.

About e-dmc.com
We are a team of hospitality industry experts with twenty-five plus years of experience establishing, automating and operating destination management services and we have designed an automated on-line DMC software system for streamlining meeting management with technology!
Our patent pending software, destin™, which powers the e-dmc.com™ site, has successfully operated thousands of group travel programs by utilizing destination information in a unique fashion to source, plan, schedule, purchase, cost, operate and bill group travel programs.

e-dmc.com is a free web based, virtual, online meeting and event planning software. With a key feature being automating arrivals and departures scheduling.

Automating arrivals and departures means that the tedious task of scheduling passenger transportation is no longer done manually but by e-dmc.com’s patent pending technology. If you are a meeting planner with multiple groups that need to be picked up and dropped off, you no longer have to do this by hand.

With real time flight information and scheduling technology, just import your flight manifest and let e-dmc.com schedule the pickups for you.

Virtually see all of the work that used to take dozens of hours to be completed scheduled and booked within seconds!


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e-dmc.com joins the Komen Orange County Race for the Cure to support Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Last year, Teams alone raised more than $1.5 million for the fight against breast cancer. Together, I know we can raise even more money this year!

We need your help to accomplish this year’s Team goal of $500.00. If you would like to join our team or make a donation, our team name and number is: e-dmc.com (2953).

The average cost of a life saving mammogram is $125. A donation of $125 on top of an entry fee will fund a mammogram and save a life. However, any amount counts towards racing for the cure. Join the e-dmc team or make a donation and save a life.

Thank you for your support!!

RACE FOR THE CURE ONLINE REGISTRATION

JOIN A TEAM REGISTRATION:
1. Sign onto www.komenoc.org
2. Click on "Register Now" which is located under the Race for the Cure logo.
3. When the Race for the Cure page opens, click "Register Here"
4. Read the Waiver/Agreement and click on either “I agree”.
5. Now select “Join a Team”.
6. From the drop-down box, select our Team name. The team number is attached to the name.
7. If you are a returning participant, you can use your password and username from last year to auto-fill the personal information section. If you are new, simply type in your contact information.
8. Fill out your billing information in the provided form.
9. If you are making an additional donation, you can then choose to be listed by name, anonymously, or other and you can also select who the donation is in honor, in memory, or in support of.
10. You will be emailed a confirmation notice on your registration.
11. Now, email your friends and family to ask for online support.

Have you gotten a chance to check out some of e-dmc.com's feature highlights?

e-dmc.com is the hospitality industry's newest comprehensive meeting and event planning tool, quoted as an "immediate and dramatic cost and time savings being delivered to meeting planners."

Best of all, e-dmc.com is a free web-based software offered to planners worldwide!

Some of our most useful tools include

- Arrivals & Departures Scheduling
Scheduling and planning multiple group passenger pick up from the airport and taking them to their appropriate hotel or destination has never been easier using e-dmc.com's A's and D's Worldwide. For more info, click here >>

- Event Creation and Scheduling
e-dmc.com makes it easy to create your agenda with its simple platform with a rich menu of updated events to choose from, including tours, receptions, banquets & special events. Whether it's dinner for 5 or a multi-day & multi-event function, e-dmc gives you the tools to make event planning fun and easy. For more info, click here>>

- Automated Managerial Reports
e-dmc.com's detailed and easy-to-navigate reports, necessary to keep track of your business, includes instant program itineraries, program spreadsheets, purchase order reports, cost-to-date summary and much more!

e-destinACCESS (E-DA), an Orange County, Calif.-based company that specializes in software for destination management companies, has officially launched e-dmc.com, its new Web-based DMC service for meeting and event planners, it announced this week.

The free service, which is modeled after a full-service DMC, directly connects meeting planners with meeting suppliers, as well as tools for automating the meeting planning process. Because it has no hidden fees or markups, E-DA says e-dmc.com allows planners to remove "middle-men costs" and save up to 50 percent of their budget, not to mention up to 75 percent of their manpower hours. "It is evident that the meeting industry is a major contributor to our economy," E-DA Chief Software Architect and CEO Wayne W. Beaubien said in a statement, citing U.S. Travel Association data showing that the meetings industry is responsible for 2.4 million jobs, $240 billion in spending and $39 billion in tax revenue. "The potential loss of 2.4 million jobs would be catastrophic to the U.S. economy. That is the significance of e-dmc.com, to provide the tools to boost the meeting industry [...] while being financially responsible." According to E-DA, e-dmc.com allows meeting planners to electronically organize events, create and submit RFPs, manage accounting and billing needs, and automate business processes, error-checking procedures and report production. Because it's free and Web-based, the company suggests that e-DMC will save meeting planners time and money, allowing them to plan meetings from anywhere in the world while shifting more resources away from personnel and towards meeting-enhancing activities like entertainment, spa services, and food and beverage. Concluded Beaubien, "We firmly believe that by introducing our free service, e-dmc.com, we can truly provide a tool within the hospitality and meeting planning business to help rejuvenate the economy and cut excess spending."

The History of e-dmc Software
as told through an interview of

Wayne W. Beaubien: CEO & Chief Software Architect of e-destinACCESS


“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”. – Albert Einstein

When I first started being a dmc, I knew that I couldn’t live in this business with the tools of that time period that were acceptable in business during the 80’s. After all, I had worked at Xerox when the fax machine was introduced back in the mid-70’s and was fresh out of the U.S. Army! I tell you, the technology we had in the Army was way more advanced than in U.S. businesses. Any way, here we were in the mid 80’s and the best we could do to relay information was through a fax machine? Hey, we had two of them and they cost over $500 bucks each and they still have thermal paper on a roll (I don’t think there is a person in there 20’s that even knows what thermal paper is?)

Well back to my reality of the day. So another key tool of the day was a Telex machine! Anyone even know what that was? Hey, the only place I had ever seen one was when I was working on Wall Street and that was the weapon of choice for business in stocks and banking. So here I was with tools that did not make any sense because they really did not help my business, in fact they just created more paper and the necessity to file stuff!! Hey I not big on loading up file cabinets. So what was a guy to do?

One day in 1984 I read a factoid in USA Today that said if small businesses did not become involved with technology they would not be in business in 10 years. Now that struck me big time! So I contacted the University of Arizona to learn what was happening with technology and come to find out plenty was going on. However, most of it was in government and universities. In fact the first time I saw what the internet could do was at the U of A and boy was I blown away. Hey there was no web browsing or any of that stuff, but you could send a letter to someone across the globe is seconds and you could source information from other universities. In fact a couple of guys there figured out how to operate pit mines in Malaysia using the internet and 800 mhz radios. Now that is another story that has legs!

So from that initial visit and further research I decided to move ahead with finding a way to run a business that we all know is absolutely unmanageable for the human brain to comprehend. After all in the dmc business the one thing you could count on were mistakes! In fact if you only had one mistake a day per program I soon learned was a good thing! Now when has a mistake ever been a good thing?

So the road was cleared to begin to find out how to build a business around technology but there was no technological solution in a single source. Macs were just coming up with single user stations and IBM had floppy disk drives; all of which could not be connected (now known as networked). So between the folks at Microsoft, Netware and 3 COM there was a solution mapped out for us to follow. The server came from Ireland (hey it was a $30K purchase for a machine that had the capability of have 15 users on the same system, or Network); the hard drive came from a 3 COM source in a wooden crate costing a whopping $3,600 for a 300 mega bite capacity and boy, oh boy were we cooking with gas (another reference to the fact that years prior to gas people cooked with wood- remember Einstein?)

Anyway, now came the biggest problem: how do you write a software product? Well, along comes Price Waterhouse, my accounting firm. Well they had an idea! They heard the Federal Government had a grant program for companies interested in developing technology and we were interested!

So after days of writing out a dream of what we could do by developing technology that allowed us to purchase goods and services from small companies with little effort, the Department of Commerce granted us some money - and I say some - but was it enough to fully develop a software product? Absolutely not! So we pressed on by sitting around our conference room table for hours on end discussing where to start?

Eventually, we started with transportation because that was our Achilles Heal! Mistakes were the norm and we couldn’t handle that at all. After two months we had the first module ready and we could finally use that computer system that cost a fortune! Up to that point we used it to prepare our documents using WordPerfect (again for those of you that don’t remember WordPerfect was the weapon of choice for a multi-user platform because there was no mult-user platform, we all could use it at the same time. Another process we had down was Lotus Spreadsheets, oh yes again Microsoft’s Excel was second best just like MS Word) .

Hey that whole story of how those companies succumb to Microsoft is another story of worth. After all how do you go from dominating a market with the finest word processing tool to being virtually non-existent?

Here is a perfect example of why hotels don't get it! What's the deal with both the Loews and Marriott? We need to call them out. What they are doing is simply the same old stuff, different day. Think about it what does it matter to get a free hotel room for every 25, or 35 booked?

Let's do the math:

1. 25 rooms x $200 = $5,000
2. The $200 free room divided by the $5,000 cost = a whopping 4% savings. What the hell does that do for you? To me that is ridiculous!

Read below:

MEETING PACKAGE: Loews Hotels Debuts 'Value' Program

January 19, 2009

New York-based Loews Hotels has announced a new "VALUE" program for groups that includes a variety of savings and upgrades, such as unlimited in-room high-speed Internet access, complimentary guest rooms and credits toward future meetings.

Available to groups that book meetings at one of 17 Loews properties in the United States or Canada prior to April 30, 2009, the "VALUE" program includes:

• Variety: One complimentary room and one VIP upgrade for every 25 rooms booked
• All day complimentary Loews Hotels' signature Color Break: Meeting planners have a choice of three color schemes—blue, yellow or green—setting the mood for a productive and energetic meeting, and include individual snack settings at each person's seat, floral centerpieces, on-screen color flushes and matching room decor to engage and entertain meeting participants.
• Luncheon upgrade: One lunch upgrade to signature Loews Luncheon menus, which incorporate current restaurant trends—such as small plates and non-banquet vessels—to make for a more upscale dining experience.
• Unlimited in-room high-speed Internet: Available for all attendees, or a $20 hotel credit per room with a minimum two night stay.
• Earn a 5 percent credit on rooms revenue: The credit can be used towards a future Loews meeting that must be booked prior to Aug. 31, 2009, and actualized by Dec. 31, 2010.


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Coto de Caza, CA – February 2009 - e-destinACCESS, Inc. (E-DA), an Orange County, Calif.-based company launches e-dmc.com in the first half of 2009, a fee-free web-based DMC service offered to meeting and event planners, to help reconcile the struggle between rejuvenating the economy and quell the vilification of meetings which puts at risk potentially 2.4 million jobs.

e-dmc’s patent pending technology will directly connect planners and suppliers, thereby removing middle-men costs. According to E-DA, this technology can save meeting planners as much as 50% of their budget and as much as 75% of their manpower hours.

Incentive trips, meetings and events account for 15% of all travel spending, which creates 2.4 million jobs, $240 billion in spending and $39 billion in tax revenue, according to the U.S. Travel Association.
“These numbers are significant,” reads a statement from Wayne W. Beaubien, Chief Software Architect and CEO of E-DA. “It is evident that the meeting industry is a major contributor to our economy, however, in times like this, it is important to help keep the economy alive but be responsible and prevent abuse by offering the tools necessary to do so. The potential loss of 2.4 million jobs would be catastrophic to the US economy. That is the significance of e-dmc, to help the meeting industry be financially responsible”.

Beaubien also agrees with USTA’s Geoff Freeman’s statement, "The fight is not with meetings, events and travel," he says. "The problem is with irresponsibility.”

“We can have both a healthy rejuvenation of the economy and still be responsible about it,” says Beaubien. “It does not have to be an either or situation. We (E-DA) firmly believe that by introducing our free service, e-dmc, can be a great tool within the meeting planning business to help rejuvenate the economy and cut excess spending.”

About E-DA:

E-DA is a destination services technology company headed by DMC Veteran CEO and Chief Software Architect, Wayne W. Beaubien and California Attorney, COO Anita Beaubien. “Our current mission is to follow a classic evolutionary path in business by squeezing out unnecessary middlemen costs, thereby positively impacting the spend in local economies. In the end, our products will enhance the Meeting Professional’s businesses by providing supporting technology that automates and streamlines processes without sacrificing customer service which will result in a financially enhanced local economy”.

By creating the first products, remotely accessed desktop applications destin® and
e-guestACCESS™, E-DA has created the foundation for a globally accessible SaaS product, e-DMC™, with the goal of simplifying and streamlining the event planning business.


www.e-destinaccess.com/edmc.html

You've heard about us in the news and saw our videos (by now we hope!) so come see us live at the Anaheim HFTP-HITEC (Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals HITEC) trade show from June 22 - 25 , we'll be at booth 260.

If you're in the hospitality/event/meeting industry and want to see how you can significantly help and boost your business WITHOUT INVESTING A PENNY - come in for a live demo and we would be more than happy to help!

e-dmc has the following:

- Free Arrivals and Departures Scheduling manifest
- Rich menu of events, venues, activities to choose from
- Automated reporting
- Automated event scheduling & organization
- Web-based access : No downloads!
- It's FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE!!!! !
- & Much More

Click here to get your tickets now!!!!

Watch what we're about here by clicking here

Marsha & Debbie, two ladies, same job. One uses e-dmc and one does not. Who would you rather be?





Created by company e-destinACCESS and coming in 2009 is e-dmc™- the free web-based destination management company services solution: Create, customize, manage, & save all aspects of your programs online and eliminate middle man markups by having access to direct cost pricing.

By streamlining and automating planning services, e-dmc allows planners to cut costs by eliminating manual tasks and offering convenience, structure, & consistency within the event planning business.

e-dmc provides a rich menu of destination services and events and the tools for planners to organize and schedule events, A's & D's (arrivals and departures), send and review RFP requests, produce managerial reports, purchase directly from the vendor, bill, invoice, and perform accounting services.

By providing powerful automating, streamlining, error-checking technology, and eliminating middle man markups, e-dmc gives planners the tools to be successful in this competitive market.

So stay tuned as e-dmc makes its arrival in the first half of 2009 at www.e-dmc.com

www.e-destinaccess.com/edmc.html

e-dmc campaign video - check it out!

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e-destinACCESS (E-DA), an Orange County, Calif.-based company launches e-dmc in the first quarter of 2009, a fee-free web-based DMC service used by meeting and event planners, in time to meet Obama’s “Economic Stimulus” efforts within the meeting industry. e-dmc is an SaaS technology that will directly connect planners and suppliers, providing the automating power and tools to enhance the planner’s production and services. This technology can save meeting planners as much as 50% of their budgets spend on goods and services in local economies. By leveraging technology, E-DA aims to shift spending power by eliminating middleman markups and allow more dollars to be spent thereby contributing toward the economic stimulus of that destination.

“They (businesses) are the ones whose efforts and ideas will determine our economic destiny, just as they always have,” the president said. “For in the end, it’s businesses, large and small, that generate the jobs, provide the salaries and serve as the foundation on which the American people’s lives and dreams depend,” concurs E-DA with a statement from President Obama concerning his reasoning behind the Stimulus initiative.

By offering e-dmc, E-DA is an example of a company looking to contribute and do their part in support of the Economic Stimulus program. By directly connecting planners and suppliers, e-dmc bypasses the middleman and shifts the markup amounts to economically-enhancing activities from more providers of goods and services such as entertainment, food, beverages, and spa services.

In addition, e-dmc does not require large upfront costs and ongoing fees that traditional planning software have, making it difficult for newcomers to enter the business and for seasoned professionals to maintain business costs. With e-dmc, to “invest in what works" does not require any capital investment for the meeting & event planner.

In accordance with defeating the economical crisis without a “moment to spare,” E-DA’s upcoming e-dmc provides a costless and gainful online solution within the meeting industry. To aid in the economic stimulation requires providing specialized tools and resources without the high cost of entrance.

About EDA:EDA is a destination services technology company headed by DMC Veteran CEO and Chief Software Architect, Wayne W. Beaubien. “Our current mission is to follow a classic evolutionary path in business by squeezing out unnecessary middlemen costs, thereby positively impacting the spend in local economies. In the end, our products will enhance the Meeting Professional’s businesses by providing supporting technology that automates and streamlines processes without sacrificing customer service which will result in a financially enhanced local economy”.

By creating the first products, remotely accessed desktop applications destin® and
e-guestACCESS™, EDA has created the foundation for a globally accessible SaaS, e-DMC™, with the goal of simplifying and streamlining the event planning business.

http://www.e-destinaccess.com/edmc.html

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E-DestinAccess (EDA), an Orange County, Calif.-based company that specializes in software for destination management companies, will soon launch a new Web-based DMC service for meeting and event planners, it announced last week. The free service, called e-DMC, will debut later this quarter and will directly connect planners with suppliers, as well as with tools for automating the meeting planning process.

“Planners and suppliers agree that an increase in creativity and innovation will be a necessary and invaluable tool in 2009. Planners and suppliers expect new, (including currently unknown standards and practices) to emerge which will make the industry more efficient and effective for the long term. ““11% of meeting professionals expect an increase in the use of technology to access meetings and content remotely, in order to help lower overall costs. The technology which more professionals plan to use is “on-site” related.” EDA quotes from a press release by MPI and American Express in their FutureWatch 2009 article.

According to EDA spokesperson Mia Nguyen, e-DMC is a tool that fulfills MPI's FutureWatch prophecy, as it allows meeting planners to electronically organize events, create and submit RFPs, manage accounting and billing needs, and automate business processes, error-checking procedures and report production.
"In accordance with the economical crisis, EDA sticks to the motto, 'Time is Money,'" reads a company statement. "To be successful as a meeting professional requires a cost-effective technological solution that provides the convenience, efficiency, structure and consistency within the industry that e-DMC offers."

About EDA:EDA is a destination services technology company headed by DMC Veteran CEO and Chief Software Architect, Wayne W. Beaubien. “Our current mission is to follow a classic evolutionary path in business by squeezing out unnecessary middlemen costs, thereby positively impacting the spend in local economies. In the end, our products will enhance the Meeting Professional’s businesses by providing supporting technology that automates and streamlines processes without sacrificing customer service which will result in a financially enhanced local economy”.

By creating the first products, remotely accessed desktop applications destin® and
e-guestACCESS™, EDA has created the foundation for a globally accessible SaaS, e-DMC™, with the goal of simplifying and streamlining the event planning business.

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