SPRING VON Takes #1 Spot in TSW Fastest 50
Par Avion 'Powered By Passkey' Expertly Managed Event Housing


(Los Angeles, CA - December 4, 2006) Spring VON 2006 was named as the #1 Overall Fastest- Growing Tradeshow by Tradeshow Week Magazine in their 4th annual Fastest 50 honorary award ceremony last month. Held in San Jose, California and produced by PulverMedia, Spring VON attracts a community of more than 9,500 people. Spring VON represents the IP communications industry, which is one of the strongest technology sectors worldwide.

Spring VON housing was managed by Par Avion (www.paravion-inc.com), a Los Angeles-based meetings and conventions travel management services company for convention housing, registration and travel. Par Avion has successfully handled Spring VON event housing and travel for the past 5 years, and has managed the Fall VON show for the last 3 years. High profile shows such as VON are handled nationwide by centrally managing all event housing with Passkey, an online group reservations management system. With real-time visibility to group blocks and pick-up, and the ease of managing multiple hotels and sub-blocks, the Par Avion team is one step ahead of the game when it comes to reducing attrition penalties all together.

“Precisely managed event housing and attendee customer service are essential to the overall success of this show,” explained Scott Kargmann, COO/CFO for Spring VON, from Pulvermedia. “Par Avion did a tremendous job of handling our housing and registration, and having Passkey as their secret weapon, puts my mind at ease, since we have a 360º view of our event room blocks at all times. It puts us on the same page as our event hotels, and it just makes us stronger when it comes to logistics.”

“Par Avion, is one of a handful of companies that are equipped and experienced at handling housing for conventions the size of Spring VON. We're thrilled they've been identified as the fastest growing trade show by TSW and very happy that we could play a part in that success,” said Toby Brenner, president, Par Avion.

Spring VON 2006 Key Statistics:

- More than 20% of the attendees book housing online
- Par Avion managed 10 hotels for this event,
- Wash factor was negligible, 0.1%
- Total room nights booked approx. 6,500 bringing in $1 million in room revenue alone.

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About Par Avion
Par Avion Meetings and Conventions, based in Los Angeles, CA, is a full service housing, registration, travel and meeting management company established in 1984. With over two decades of professional housing experience, Par Avion provides both domestic and international convention support. Services encompass small board meetings to coordinating housing for citywide conventions http://www.paravion-inc.com

About Passkey
Passkey is the worldwide leader in online group reservations. The Boston-based technology company offers event planners and providers a powerful web-based application to optimize group hotel reservations.http://www.passkey.com.

About Pulvermedia
Pulvermedia is the leading integrated media company, building communities and providing ready marketplace access through its unparalleled blend of trade shows, publications, web channels, and progressive cutting-edge media. And as the foremost integrated media company, Pulvermedia is ideally poised to deliver a vast range of messages to a wide variety of audiences, including technology buyers and sellers, government regulators, industry analysts, luminaries, pundits and bloggers. For more information, please visit http://www.pulvermedia.com.