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Prime Hospitality Corp. Signs Agreement With Hotels.com and Expedia.com Expedia Direct Connection Technology to Automate Reservations FAIRFIELD, N.J. and BELLEVUE, Wash., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Prime Hospitality Corp. , Expedia.com(R) andHotels.com announced today that they have signed an agreement to provide customers with access to thousands of Prime Hospitality Corp. hotel rooms through the Expedia.com and Hotels.com Web sites. Under the new agreement, both the Expedia.com and Hotels.com websites will present prices to customers which are equal to the rates sold through Prime's own branded websites. The agreement covers Prime Hospitality's rooms at all its AmeriSuites, Prime Hotels & Resorts, and Wellesley Inns & Suites hotels -- 260 properties throughout North America. In turn, the agreement gives Prime the opportunity to market to the nearly 20 million customers looking for hotel rooms on Expedia.com and Hotels.com each month. The agreement also calls for the joint development of a direct connection with Expedia.com and Hotels.com into Prime's Central Reservation System, fully automating the reservation process and making it extremely accurate and more cost effective for all properties. "We are very pleased with our renewed relationship with Expedia.com and Hotels.com," said DJ Vallauri, Vice President of E-Commerce for Prime. "This is a great deal for all parties and especially for consumers who prefer to book through the Expedia.com and/or Hotels.com websites. In addition the new agreement gives each property manager the flexibility to manage inventory and rates as best suits their sales strategies." "This agreement offers a great benefit to consumers, who are our mutual customers at Expedia(R), Hotels.com and Prime Hospitality," said Lloyd Frink, senior vice president of lodging at IAC Travel. "Being able to continue to offer these well-known, quality brands further extends our ability to meet the needs of travelers. We're proud to have Prime as a hotelier so we can grow our businesses together." About Prime Hospitality Corp. Prime Hospitality Corp., one of the nation's premier lodging companies, owns, manages, develops and franchises more than 260 hotels throughout North America. The Company owns and operates three proprietary brands, AmeriSuites(R) (all-suites), Prime Hotels & Resorts(SM) (full-service) and Wellesley Inns & Suites(R) (limited service). Also within Prime's portfolio are owned and/or managed hotels operated under franchise agreementswith national hotel chains including Hilton, Radisson, Sheraton and Holiday Inn. Prime can be accessed over the Internet at http://www.primehospitality.com/. About Expedia, Inc. Expedia, Inc. is the world's leading online travel service and the fourth largest travel agency in the U.S. Expedia's award-winning Expert Searching and Pricing (ESP) technology delivers the most comprehensive flight options available online. ESP also allows customers to dynamically build complete trips that combine flights, Expedia(R) Special Rate hotels and other lodging, ground transportation, and destination activities. Expedia operates Classic Custom Vacations(R), a leading distributor of premiere vacation packages to destinations such as Hawaii, Mexico, Europe andthe Caribbean; and Expedia(R) Corporate Travel, a full-service corporate travel agency. Expedia, Inc.'s wholly owned subsidiary, Travelscape, Inc., operates WWTE(TM), bringing complementary cross-sell and dynamic packaging booking functionality to third parties on a private-label basis. Expedia can be found on the Web at http://www.expedia.com/. Expedia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ:IACI). CST: 2029030-40 Expedia, Expedia.com, the airplane logo, WWTE and Classic Custom Vacations are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Expedia, Inc. in the U.S., Canada and/or other countries. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: Expedia, Inc. CONTACT: DJ Vallauri of Prime Hospitality Corp., +1-973-882-1010 or ; or Rory J. O'Connor or Matt Flegal of Fleishman-Hillard, +1-415-318-4004 or , for Expedia Web site: http://www.primehospitality.com/ Web site: http://www.expedia.com/

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