DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 22, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Starwood Hotels & Resorts in the Middle East has taken dining a step further, with the launch of a unique and exciting new website: www.starwood.com/reserveatable.
The website offers diners the facility to book tables in their favourite Sheraton restaurants, order delicious pastries and cakes or simply browse gourmet recipes online.
The novel website offers updated menus in 42 Starwood restaurants ranging from Chinese to Arabic and Italian to Moroccan. In addition, visitors have access to instant availability, detailed floor plans of the outlets and can even select the location of their preferred tables.
"Our aim was to make restaurant reservations quick, easy and convenient in accordance with today's busy lifestyles," explains Servee Palmans, Area Director of Six Sigma and in charge of the project. "With this carefully-designed website, virtually anyone from the discerning business traveler to a housewife, can go through the entire booking process in just a few seconds."
According to Sharad Agarwal, CEO of Cyber Gear, "It was an exciting experience to work on this unique project. We are confident that Starwood hotels will hugely benefit through the 'first mover advantage' of launching this Internet based restaurant reservation application."
About Cyber Gear
Since 1996, Cyber Gear has been a pre-eminent force in the e-business industry by developing award winning web projects. Positioned as an industry leader, Cyber Gear provides state-of-the-art Internet solutions to a large number of multinational organizations. Cyber Gear services include design of portal sites, intranets, e-CRM, e-business and e-commerce applications.
Cyber Gear has signed contracts with leading multinational organizations for implementing web based projects. These include Disney, Starwood Hotels, Shell Markets, Sharp, FedEx, Formula X and Xerox.
About Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with more than 740 properties in more than 80 countries and 105,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. With internationally renowned brands, Starwood is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels and resorts including: St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, Sheraton, Westin, Four Points by Sheraton, W brands, as well as Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts.