Camping in the UK Takes a Tech Step UP

Coventry, United Kingdom - Digital Rez International (DRI) - Nov 8, 2005 - DRI announced today that Coventry, UK-based Camping and Caravanning Club (CCC) has completed their first full year of activity using ClubRez®, a real time, online central reservation and property management system powered by RezExpert®, DRI’s flagship product.

The new system, unique in Europe, brings world-class cutting technology to the oldest and largest camping club in the world.

ClubRez processed over 92,000 advance reservations with an unprecedented 38% (35,000) of those being handled online. Including drive-up, check-in services the system processed over 294,000 bookings in total, on a real time basis.

“We’re especially pleased with the high percentage of online, advance bookings as this represents a significant saving for the club.” stated Ken Lahoda, founder and CEO of DRI.

“ClubRez, powered by RezExpert, remains the world’s largest centrally managed reservation and property management system in the camping industry for the second year running. With that said, the RezExpert system is now capable of providing central booking, property and membership management services to any accommodation market.” Lahoda continued.

This year, the Camping and Caravanning Club will be enhancing the system to accommodate all of its long-term cabins and cottages and camping storage as well as its national camping jamboree, the National Feast of Lanterns, which hosts over 10,000 attendees each year.

Along with almost 100 front desk locations throughout the UK, the system provides centralized master setup, central pricing control, call center, property management, client web services, loyalty points program, online reporting and centralized employee security and system control. It presently supports over 200 Citrix® thin-client systems running on a Microsoft® SQL Server 2003 / IBM SAN central storage platform. The enterprise accounting system is provided by Great Plains®, a Microsoft® company.

About The Camping and Caravanning Club:
Founded in 1901, The Camping and Caravanning Club is the world’s largest and longest-established club for all forms of camping. It has over 400,000 members all of whom have access to nearly 100 award-winning UK Club Sites, over 1200 hideaway Certificated Sites, Carefree overseas travel and a range of special interest sections and Club related services. www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk

About Digital Rez
Established in 1993 and now serving over 2200 campgrounds in North America, Australia, New Zealand and the UK, Digital Rez International is the world’s leading provider of software and IT services to the camping industry.

With over 40 staff serving its clients from offices in Barbados, British Columbia and Australia, Digital Rez International also serves over 2,000 businesses in other sectors of the travel/accommodation industry.