ORLANDO, Fla. — The Rosen Centre Hotel, in partnership with BAGS Inc. (Baggage Airline Guest Services) and ARINC Inc., is now offering a service that improves passenger processing at U.S. airports through a revolutionary new check-in system. Advantages for Rosen Centre Hotel guests include increased convenience and comfort, reduced traffic to the airport and a more secure method of air travel.

“Not only is BAGS operating the first secure off-site multi-airline check-in to be approved by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, The Rosen Centre Hotel is the first hotel in the country to use this system,” said Harris Rosen, president of Rosen Hotels and Resorts. “This is an outstanding convenience for our guests. Guests with late departures and early hotel check-out times no longer need to check their bags or “schlep” them from one destination to the next, including the airport.”

BAGS works by allowing travelers to obtain their boarding passes, baggage receipts and VIP carry-on privileges at The Rosen Centre Hotel for a small fee. The bags are then transferred to a secure vehicle and routed to the airport. Once the bags arrive at the airport, they are scanned by TSA representatives. Baggage can be checked as early as 12 hours and as late as two and a half hours before departure time.

Rosen Hotels & Resorts is a consolidation of six hotel properties providing guests over 5,000 rooms, owned and managed by hotelier and philanthropist, Harris Rosen. A native of the lower east side of Manhattan, Rosen moved to Orlando, Florida three decades ago and quickly turned a one motel operation into the largest private hotel company in the state. In addition to its two convention hotels, The Rosen Centre and The Rosen Plaza, the company owns and operates four leisure properties in the International Drive and Lake Buena Vista areas.

The award-winning Rosen Centre Hotel is adjacent to the nation’s second largest convention center. The 1,334-room, upscale hotel offers: 106,000 square feet of sophisticated meeting space, including a 35,000 square-foot Grand Ballroom and 33 distinctive meeting rooms; seven restaurants and lounges; a fitness center and full-service spa; lighted tennis courts and large swimming pool.

Rosen’s latest entrepreneurial endeavor, Rosen Shingle Creek Resort & Golf Club, nearby the Orlando/Orange County Convention Center expansion, will offer 1,500 rooms and over 250,000 square feet of dedicated meeting space, including a 95,000 sq. ft. column-free ballroom. The Shingle Creek Golf Club, which opened in December 2003, features an 18-hole championship golf course designed by David Harman. In addition to the golf course, the resort will feature tennis, a full-service health spa and state-of-the-art fitness center, and other related resort amenities. The resort is slated to open in the fall of 2006.

In addition to the new resort and golf course, Rosen has also donated approximately $20 million in funding to the University of Central Florida for an adjacent 20-acre site of the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort land which now features the University of Central Florida’s Rosen School of Hospitality Management. The 1,000-student “live and learn” facility, which began classes in January 2004, offers a Bachelor’s degree in Hospitality Management, within a setting that exposes students to every aspect of the hospitality experience.