FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Hotel Connections Corporation Hires Former Hotels.com Executive
as Vice President of Hotel Acquisitions

East Stroudsburg, PA November 2, 2006 - HotelConnectionsCorporation (HCC) a premiere state-of-the-art Hotel Reservations, Packaging, and Ticketing provider has hired Jon Talese as Vice President of Hotel Acquisitions.

Jon Talese will specialize in Florida hotels with his primary emphasis on Naples, Ft. Myers, Sanibel, Captiva, and Marco Island. His expertise stems from a deep-rooted career in the hospitality and tourism industries including time with Hotels.com. He is also the current President of AC Hotel Experts.com.

Mr. Talese will represent HCC in the acquisition of net rate and commissioned rate hotel rooms for cities throughout Florida. HCC, in turn, provides room inventory and reservations technology to a network of regional city guides including www.FtMyersBest.com, www.SanibelsBest.net, www.NaplesBest.net, www.CaptivasBest.com, www.MarcoHotelExperts.com, www.FtMyersHotelExperts.com, and www.SanibelHotelExperts.com. These seven online travel guides are among the clientele that HCC serves as an industry-leading provider of travel reservations technology and services to Convention and Visitors Bureaus, Destination Marketing Organizations, and the tourism industry at large.

HotelConnectionsCorporation (http://www.HotelConnectionsCorporation.com) creates world-class room reservation, golf tee time reservation, restaurant reservation, and tour packaging technology for their proprietary use in order to accommodate the growing need in their industry. They have recently made this technology available for lease to the Hospitality and Travel Industries. HotelConnectionsCorporation has relationships with 350 (and growing daily) hotels to market rooms. These are not normally discounted, but are sold at market rates to travelers the property would not otherwise reach. The sale of rooms through HCC's system nets Lodging Property Owners substantially more net revenue than if the same rooms were to be sold through HCC's competitors (Travelocity, Hotels.com, Expedia, Hotwire, and Priceline.)

HotelConnectionsCorporation also provides online and call center reservation systems for Convention and Visitors Bureaus, individual hotels, inns, resorts, other lodging properties, and destination attraction's Web sites. HCC staff includes Web site designers, Search Engine Optimization Specialists, advanced programmers, and networking personnel. Mr. Jon Talese may be reached by calling: 609.441.0209.

Hotel Connections Corporation (HCC), headquartered at 366 North Courtland Street, Suite B in East Stroudsburg, in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, is a subsidiary of Golden Interests, Inc., the largest leisure travel agency in Pennsylvania and one of the largest in the Northeastern United States. Golden Interests is a member of the Pocono Mountains (PA) Chamber of Commerce, the Pocono Mountains Vacation Bureau (PMVB), the Naples and Key West (FL) Chambers of Commerce, the Sullivan County (NY) Chamber of Commerce, and the Pike and Wayne County (PA) Chambers of Commerce.

Golden Interests publishes more than 80 Internet-based guides to the "Best of" cities like the Poconos, Atlantic City, Naples, Hershey, Tunica, Niagara Falls, and Punta Cana. They arrange for groups, leisure, and business travelers at more than 40,000 hotels across the world. They can be reached toll free at: 1.877.465.3368 or online at: http://www.GoldenTravelGuides.com.