In the first example of this new programme, free-hotspot.com has teamed up with The British Hospitality Association and Hospitality Live! to offer FREE Wi-Fi to the attendees of the annual BHA luncheon event on July 4th, 2006. Free Internet access will thus be made available to a catchment audience of some of the industry’s leading figures across the Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure industry. With more than seven hundred hoteliers, restaurateurs and contract catering operators expected to attend on the day, this prestigious event will be an excellent opportunity for the industry’s movers and shakers to learn how FREE Wi-Fi can help them increase customer traffic and generate company revenue.

“With more and more people turning to a FREE Wi-Fi solution, free-hotspot.com is the first company to provide such a service to exhibitions and conferences across Europe. We are delighted to kick off this new programme by joining forces with The British Hospitality Association and Hospitality Live! - one that clearly reflects our pan-European goal to bring free Wi-Fi to cafés, hotels, pubs and restaurants,” said Joe Brunoli, Vice President, HotSpot Market Development for www.free-hotspot.com.

John Brown, Director of Hospitality Live!, said it was an easy decision to provide the free-hotspot.com service. “The availability of free wireless Internet access is becoming more and more a standard amenity in hospitality circles,” he explained. “We are obviously very pleased that BHA members and all attendees will enjoy this same convenience at Hospitality LIVE!”

About free-hotspot.com:

free-hotspot.com is rapidly building Europe’s largest community of FREE wireless Internet users. The company has launched a pan-European programme to bring free Wi-Fi to cafés, hotels, pubs, restaurants, retail centres, transit centres and other public venues. Under this programme, free-hotspot.com provides the equipment and expertise needed to operate a FREE HotSpot at no cost to the venue owner, and then promotes these free HotSpots through a combination of local and national marketing campaigns. The company also maintains Europe’s most comprehensive directory of free HotSpots in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, which currently lists more than 9,000 locations worldwide. free-hotspot.com is located in Dublin, Ireland. free-hotspot.com holds the prestigious WBI (Wireless Broadband Innovation) Award for Best Public Wi-Fi Product 2006.

To learn more about the free HotSpot programme or to find the free HotSpot nearest you, please visit: www.free-hotspot.com.

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