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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Travel NaviGuide: Rosewood Hotels & Resorts Launches Exclusive GPS Navigating System for Guests
Dallas, TX – September 2005 – Throw away all the paper maps with highlighted routes from the hotel to your destination! Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, the premier manager of ultra-luxury properties throughout the world, is pleased to announce the Travel NaviGuide program: an exclusive partnership with Garmin International Inc., to provide GPS pocket navigators at all properties in North America. Beginning in mid-September, guests will no longer have to use maps to navigate their way through foreign cities. At The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel, in New York City, The Mansion on Turtle Creek, A Rosewood Hotel, in Dallas and Hotel Crescent Court, A Rosewood Hotel, also in Dallas, guests can simply use the new iQue M3 as a guide to find their way from the hotel to a business meeting or luncheon, and maybe some afternoon shopping.
Replacing paper maps, which are cumbersome and often confusing, the iQue M3 is the ideal mapping device for even the biggest luddite, featuring larger, intuitive icons that make application navigation easier using an index finger, rather than a stylus. Additionally, the iQue M3 maintains the integrity of the Pocket PC applications found in traditional PDAs. A fabulous time saving tool that is ideal for exploring new cities - whether on foot or in a car, for business or for pleasure.
Choosing between three-dimensional navigation view or two-dimensional overhead view, urban unplugged Rosewood guests can see where they are in the city on an electronic map, look up an address, and see a route calculation. An integrated speaker gives voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions to destinations – guiding guests through each geographic destination.
The concierges at the three Rosewood properties will pre-program the iQue M3 device with detailed street-level map data, and help guests navigate their way to any of the over six million points of interest that relate to Dallas and New York; including landmarks, restaurants, shops as well as major highways, thoroughfares, railways, lakes, rivers and borders.
Garmin International Inc. is a member of the Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN) group of companies, which designs and manufactures navigation, communication and information devices - most of which are enabled by GPS technology. Garmin is a leader in the general aviation and consumer GPS markets and its products serve aviation, marine, outdoor recreation, automotive, wireless and OEM applications. Garmin Ltd. is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and its principal subsidiaries are located in the United States, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit Garmin’s virtual pressroom or contact the Media Relations department at 913-397-8200. Garmin, iQue, MapSource and City Select are registered trademarks, and Que, QueMap and M3 are trademarks of Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries. Anticipated product availability dates are based on management’s current expectations and are not guaranteed.
About Rosewood Hotels & Resorts
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts manages properties worldwide including The Mansion on Turtle Creek and Hotel Crescent Court in Dallas, The Carlyle in New York, Las Ventanas al Paraíso in Los Cabos, Mexico, Hotel Seiyo Ginza in Tokyo, Japan, and a triumvirate of world-class Caribbean properties – Little Dix Bay on Virgin Gorda, Caneel Bay on St. John and Jumby Bay on Antigua. For information on Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, call 888-ROSEWOOD, or visit rosewoodhotels.com.
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