Warner Leisure Hotels Lays Foundations for Expansion

Hotel Chain of the Year invests in highly scalable and secure web platform, and new integrated booking system to ensure seamless user experience

Maidenhead, UK, 1st September 2009 – SDL Tridion, leader in global Web Content Management (WCM), and part of SDL, leader in Global Information Management (GIM), today announces that Warner Leisure Hotels has used its platform as a base to enhance its website’s functionality. The award-winning hotel group chose the highly scalable platform for its ease of use and blueprinting technology. The solution allows the marketing team to change and adapt content quickly, without needing to invest time in the site’s layout and design.

Warner Leisure Hotels has seen a huge increase in team productivity, brought about by the simple and logical, yet powerful back-end interface into Tridion. The team has experienced quick-to-launch production times, enabling marketing to react quickly to changing market conditions and offer promotions in response to availability at individual hotels. Multiple websites can also be managed easily within the SDL Tridion platform.

The website’s stability has benefited hugely from the integration; Tridion offers a scalable and robust system able to grow with Warner Leisure Hotels. Its sister company, Haven Holidays, has used SDL Tridion as its website platform for four years with the minimum of technical fuss.

In addition to building the website, SDL Tridion’s implementation partner – Building Blocks – worked on the development of the integrated booking engine ensuring a seamless user experience to the site visitor.

Warner Leisure Hotels commented, “Within the current climate, it’s vital that we make the most of our existing assets, and the website is one of our most valuable direct customer communication tools. It is the instant gateway to our brand and, with the right tools in place, we can acquire and retain guests at much lower costs. The SDL Tridion platform, integrated with the automated booking system, enables our customers to choose exactly what they want with up-to-date and relevant information to allow them to make an informed booking decision. We are also now confident that at times of peak traffic, the website will remain stable and available for our customers.”

Tim Norman, Northern European Sales Director, SDL Tridion commented, “As with all industry sectors, leisure is feeling the squeeze. It is therefore essential that Warner Leisure Hotels can be sure that its website will remain up and running at all times, whilst giving them the freedom for the website to grow with the business and for it to be simple and easy to manage.”

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About SDL Tridion
SDL Tridion is a global leader in Web Content Management (WCM) solutions. Our enterprise class WCM solution enables organisations to deliver a consistent, interactive and highly targeted customer experience, in multiple languages, across multiple Web sites and channels. In addition to content creation, management, translation, delivery and archiving solutions, SDL Tridion provides brand management, targeted communication, multi-channel delivery and visitor interaction capabilities. More than 430 organisations rely on SDL Tridion solutions, including well-known global brands such as ABN AMRO, BBVA, Canon, Emirates, KLM, Lexus, Renault, Ricoh, Sanofi-Aventis, Scania, Toyota, Unilever and Yamaha. SDL Tridion has offices and partners throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information about SDL Tridion, please visit www.sdltridion.com.

SDL Tridion is a division of SDL, the leader in global information management (GIM) solutions. For more information about SDL, please visit www.sdl.com.

About Warner Leisure Hotels
Warner Leisure Hotels is an award-winning hotel group offering short breaks and longer holidays exclusively for adults. With 13 stunning locations in the UK, the company has a choice of six magnificent historic hotels (which are beautifully restored country houses or mansions), three more modern hotels and four coastal resorts, with approximately half a million guests annually.

In addition to the holiday breaks, which include hearty breakfasts, numerous daytime activities, leisure facilities, delicious three course dinners and live entertainment every night, there are over 600 Experience Breaks, additional activities that guests can choose for a small supplement. These vary from dancing, singing and bell ringing, to hot air balloon trips, antiques with Eric Knowles, gardening breaks and much more.

About Building Blocks
Building Blocks specialise in delivering successful web technology projects and work in partnership with large organisations such as British Dental Association, Lloyd’s register, Butlins, RSPB and Warner Leisure Hotels to deliver high quality technical solutions.

We’re an exciting, growing company with a team of 14, based in the heart of Manchester City Centre. For further information please visit www.thebuildingblocks.co.uk.

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