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Oriens Travel & Hotel Management would like to extend to you a warm welcome to our new corporate blog.  This forum will be used to communicate with our shareholders, our business associates, and the world at large, and will be updated regularly.  Please visit often, we look forward to staying in touch with you.

ORIENS’ ONLINE BOOKING SYSTEM BREAKS CREDIT CARD BARRIER – MAKING RESERVATIONS EASY FOR PAYPAL AND GOOGLE PAY CUSTOMERS

Oriens’ Internet Marketing Solution Affords Non Credit-card Carrying Guests Affordable Alternatives

Las Vegas, March 20, 2012 Oriens Travel & Hotel Management Corp. (OTC: OTHM), the Next Generation International Hotel Brand Operator, operating its Hotel PURE brand, announced today that the Online Booking System continues to strengthen its viability as PayPal and Google Pay integrations further the booking engine’s ease, acceptance and future adoption by both hoteliers and hotel guest.

“Unsure of the impact these integrations would have, announcements of these enhancements were not initially made,” stated Ken Chua, President of Oriens. “However, tests in five international hotels demonstrated a much higher use of the feature than expected.”

When a traveler wishes to book a hotel room without a credit card, successfully doing so is quite the arduous task.  Typically, when using cash, a customrer cannot book though an online or hotel internet booking engine.   That person would basically have to book with the hotel directly.  This makes planning a trip or securing a resort reservation nearly impossible.

Further, when booking directly with the hotel, customers ultimatly end up paying higher rates than that found on competitive internet booking sites.   Then the hotel guest may be required to make a direct deposit [cash] into the hotel’s bank account to secure the room reservation.   Adding insult to injury, upon arrival, there is an additional cash deposit required to cover ‘Incidentals.’  This can be as little as $200 cash and in some cases exceed $1,000 per reservation.

In select instances, cash deposits of any kind are not permissible whatsoever. These cash requirements are “not only inhibitive to the hotelier’s ability to sell out rooms, but may cause undue expense and embarrassment for hotel guests,” stated Chua.

Chua continued, “We are dedicated to developing the most proficient and useful online booking engine on the market.   With competitive internet booking systems selling for hundreds of millions of dollars to the Priceline and Travelocity of the world, we’d be remised not to strategically position ourselves; garnering similar acquisition interest.  These type of online hotel booking engine system integrations greatly strengthen our position.”

Management indicates that the five hotels which tested the booking engine were part of a portfolio of high end destination resorts.  Executives at Oriens suggest that the relationship with this private international hotelier is developing into a rather substantial alliance and could prove to be extremely lucrative.

“In addition to HotelPure branded and managed properties, we expect to make our fully enhanced hotel booking engine available to hoteliers and travelers on a global scale within the next 12 months,” concluded Chua.

About Oriens Travel & Hotel Management Corp. (www.orienscorp.com) (PINKSHEETS: OTHM) engages in the operation of hotels and resorts primarily in the United States and Central America under the Hotel PURE brand. The company also operates Friendly Reservations Online, a proprietary and sophisticated online booking system designed to execute reservations capture through Hotel PURE consumer facing websites, as well as individual hotel websites operated by Oriens on behalf of hotels branded under the Hotel PURE brand. Oriens is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Safe Harbor Statements in this news release that are not historical facts, including statements about plans and expectations regarding products and opportunities, demand and acceptance of new or existing products, capital resources and future financial results are forward-looking. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties which may cause the Company’s actual results in future periods to differ materially from those expressed. These uncertainties and risks include changing consumer preferences, lack of success of new products, loss of the Company’s customers, competition and other factors discussed from time to time in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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ORIENS’ ONLINE BOOKING SYSTEM ENABLES CANCIONES DEL MAR TO ACHIEVE MILESTONE: ONE THOUSAND RESERVATIONS; LESS THAN 180 DAYS

Oriens’ Internet Marketing Solution Proves Highly Effective For 1^st Timers to Online Reservation Systems… Even Abroad

Las Vegas, March 7, 2012 Oriens Travel & Hotel Management Corp. (OTC: OTHM), the Next Generation International Hotel Brand Operator, operating its Hotel PURE brand, announced today that international hotel, Canciones Del Mar, has hit a milestone using Oriens online booking reservation system, achieving its 1,000^th Online Reservation in just under 6 months.

“This is by no means an exception, as noted by the success of our other clients,” stated Ken Chua, President of Oriens. “Still, it continues to be rather impressive; taking a hotel located abroad, never having an internet presence or online reservation system, implementing the Oriens’ booking engine, and suddenly, increased reservations and revenues.  We are only just getting started.”

Management remains steadfast on building its hotel branding and management company, Hotel PURE.  However, people close to Oriens’ suggest that its reservation system and the marketing process the Company employs seem to be extraordinarily proficient.  The success of OTHM’s booking engine has spurred the company’s pursuit of developing the reservation system and offering it as a stand alone product.

This effort is the catalyst for OTHM developing the CMS FROL plug-ins and development of the mobile apps.  Launching the internet booking engine as a stand alone product “is a no brainer,” stated Chua.

He continues, “Our online booking engine and internet marketing process has been tested time and again; passing with flying colors.   With booking engines like Agoda, and Cendant being purchased for hundreds of millions of dollars, this has become low hanging fruit for OTHM and we intend to leverage its fullest potential.”

Oriens has integrated its online booking engine into a number of properties abroad in the past year and expects to hear similar results across the board during the upcoming months.

About Oriens Travel & Hotel Management Corp. (www.orienscorp.com) (PINKSHEETS: OTHM) engages in the operation of hotels and resorts primarily in the United States and Central America under the Hotel PURE brand. The company also operates Friendly Reservations Online, a proprietary and sophisticated online booking system designed to execute reservations capture through Hotel PURE consumer facing websites, as well as individual hotel websites operated by Oriens on behalf of hotels branded under the Hotel PURE brand. Oriens is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Safe Harbor Statements in this news release that are not historical facts, including statements about plans and expectations regarding products and opportunities, demand and acceptance of new or existing products, capital resources and future financial results are forward-looking. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties which may cause the Company’s actual results in future periods to differ materially from those expressed. These uncertainties and risks include changing consumer preferences, lack of success of new products, loss of the Company’s customers, competition and other factors discussed from time to time in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Oriens’ New Plug-In to Advance Global Acceptance of Online Booking Engine

Exceeding One Thousand Reservations Per Minute, Orien’s FROL System to See Increase In Reservations With New CMS Integration

Las Vegas, March 5, 2012 Oriens Travel & Hotel Management Corp. (OTC: OTHM), the Next Generation International Hotel Brand Operator, operating its Hotel PURE brand, announced today that the company will further enhance acceptance of its Online Booking System by developing a plug-in allowing its FROL System (Friendly Reservations Online)  to run over sites using CMS (Content Management System); such as Word Press, which is based on PHP and MySQL.

“With over 50 properties under management, we can clearly see the power of our reservation system.” stated Ken Chua, President of Oriens. “Our FROL system however, is intended to be used by any hotelier seeking an economical yet powerful and proven alternative to current search engines.”

Back in 2011, the Extranet, or ‘Backend’ of the FROL system received a complete facelift leaving the latest version of Orien’s booking engine with a similar look and feel to Expedia.com, Travelocity.com and Orbitz.com.   This redesign helped to greatly reduce the hotelier’s learning curve.  However, management is now focused on further strengthening its competitive advantage while significantly increasing its FROL’s acceptance amongst hoteliers by making the system simple to integrate into those more popular website platforms.

Chua continued, “The numbers are simple.   Word Press for example, is used by nearly 15% of the ‘top 1 million’ websites ranked by Alexa.  It is also the ‘go to’ platform for at least one-fifth of all new sites under development and has been downloaded more than 50 million times.   The ‘Word Press’ community alone is massive and it is not the only widely used CMS platform.”

People close to the company anticipate that Oriens’ new plug-in will greatly simplify the hotel booking process.  Perhaps to such an extent where upstart hoteliers will seek Oriens’ FROL plug-ins as a matter of common practice when developing a new hotel property, transitioning a home into a Bed & Breakfast or simply revamping an old property with new and effective technology.

Ken Chua concluded, “Developing hospitality plug-ins for CMS platforms, based on our search engine technology, should significantly broaden our reach without the over weighted cost of advertising, marketing and promotion. This application should add considerable value to our bottom line.”

About Oriens Travel & Hotel Management Corp. (www.orienscorp.com) (PINKSHEETS: OTHM) engages in the operation of hotels and resorts primarily in the United States and Central America under the Hotel PURE brand. The company also operates Friendly Reservations Online, a proprietary and sophisticated online booking system designed to execute reservations capture through Hotel PURE consumer facing websites, as well as individual hotel websites operated by Oriens on behalf of hotels branded under the Hotel PURE brand. Oriens is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Safe Harbor Statements in this news release that are not historical facts, including statements about plans and expectations regarding products and opportunities, demand and acceptance of new or existing products, capital resources and future financial results are forward-looking. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties which may cause the Company’s actual results in future periods to differ materially from those expressed. These uncertainties and risks include changing consumer preferences, lack of success of new products, loss of the Company’s customers, competition and other factors discussed from time to time in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 Contact:

Team Oriens

IR Div. (702) 483-0318

Hotel Construction Boom in Parts of Canada – Hotel PURE also “Flagging” Here

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal discussed the luxury hotel boom in Canada; particularly Toronto.    This was inspiring as our Hotel PURE brand has flagged a number of properties in Canada during 2011.   While the Canadian properties flagged were largely in Vancouver, we believe – as depicted in the aforementioned article – there is great promise in Canada for the hotel markets.   This is more likely especially the case for luxury brands.

OTHM plans to establish its Hotel PURE Signature brand hotel in Canada within the next few years.   This will be in addition to our continually growing our North American luxury Bed & Breakfast brand.   These are certainly exciting times for Oriens and Hotel PURE.

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Hotels – A Thought from Architecture’s Great Jean Nouvel

A rather intriguing thought we recently came across was from the mind of Jean Nouvel, one of the 20^th Century’s (& now 21^st) most notable names in architecture.   In an interview with Julie V. Lovine, Nouvel stated, “…the idea that one hotel could be better than another,” was one he didn’t much agree with.

Apparently Nouvel embarks upon a journey where he tends to seek out hotels that reflect the spirit of the locale.  He mentions to Julie about his affinity towards hotels like Danieli and Cipriani in Venic, and, the Mercer Hotel in New York City.   “I don’t like hotels that take the value of the city and give nothing back to it, like the International Style with all the same rooms.” – Jean Nouvel

Nouvel also said that his room, “…has to have something unique about it – some colors, interesting proportions that you won’t have anyplace else.   It is part of the trip.”

What Team Oriens is curious to know is, just how many travelers share Jean Nouvel’s view and who might these travelers be?

Would a business traveler care much about these nuances… or perhaps the typical tourist?  Probably not.  This feeling may likely be reserved for the consummate traveler.  The type of individual who actually enjoys the total experience of the hotel and cares of how the lodging environment contributes to the enjoyment and connection to the city to which he or she is visiting.

Oriens (OTHM) definitely will seek to live up to Nouvel’s expectations with the development of some its Hotel PURE brands in the years to come.   Capturing this feeling however will not be easy and will not happen over night.   But within the next five years, one of the 300 plus hotels OTHM aspires to flag, manage, operate and/or own under the Hotel PURE brand, will live up to the lodging expectations of one of today’s greatest architectural minds and hotel aficionados.

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Article Re: Extended-Stay Guest at High End Hotels – Certainly a Pursuit of Oriens’ (OTHM) Hotel PURE SIGNATURE brand

Andrea Petersen of the Wall Street Journal wrote an article detailing the growing interest of extended-stay guest who all but take a physical mailing address at some of the country’s high-end hotels.  While most people cannot ever imagine such “modest comforts,” for the lucky few, it is like living a lavish dream.   Daily room service… hand to foot luxuries… gourmet meals… dog walkers… unlimited amenities, and of course, world class concierges.

OTHM executives know one or two people – ah hemm, a consultant maybe – who’ve actually had such a grand experiences.  They LOVE it!   Ahhh…. One Day!

We at Oriens (OTHM) most look forward to when we’re able to begin offering up some of the same extended-stay opportunities to the guest of our anticipated 4 & 5 star domestic properties: Hotel PURE SIGNATURE brand.   It imagine it will certainly be a wonderful stay.

 

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Oriens Prepares a Full Court Press on Internet Booking Industry

Launch of Internet Booking Engine & Mobile Booking Apps Imminent

LAS VEGAS, NV–(GlobeNewswire – 12/15/11) – Oriens Travel and Hotel Management Corp. (OTHM.PK),  announced that a mainstream launch of the internal booking engine driving its Hotel PURE brand’s reservations, along with the proposed release of a hotel web and booking application for mobile devices, is imminent in 2012.

“The booking engine that powers our brand’s reservation system is quite powerful and is in part a major reason for our growing success within the lodging industry,” stated Ken Chua, President and CEO of Oriens Travel and Hotel Management Corp. (OTHM).

Now OTHM plans to bring their internet booking engine to hoteliers globally by committing to a 2012 mainstream re-launch of the internal hotel reservation system currently reserved solely for its Hotel PURE brand.   With this move, Oriens joins the ranks of Active Hotels, Bookings.com and Agoda – all of which were purchased by Priceline.

Mr. Chua Continued, “Over the past 49 months OTHM has added over 50 properties to the portfolio of hotels flagged and/or operated under the Hotel PURE brand.   That’s at least one hotel property added per month; and we expect to double that during 2012.  However, those numbers were not achieved from lower initiation fees alone.  It’s because we deliver results – results driven in part by our sophisticated hotel internet booking reservation system and internet marketing acumen.”

Combine the proposed launch of the internet booking engine with the anticipated release of the company’s mobile booking applications – [mobile booking apps] a story noted by both USA Today and the Wall Street Journal – and there is certainly something exciting over the horizon for OTHM.

“We firmly believe that within the next 5 years, we’ll have over 300 hotel properties flagged and/or operated under the Hotel PURE brand.   But it will be our electronic systems… our internet booking and mobile booking apps that will likely drive this OTHM to incredible heights and possibly immeasurable financial opportunities, concluded Mr. Chua.

About Oriens Travel & Hotel Management Corp. (PINKSHEETS: OTHM) engages in the operation of hotels and resorts primarily in the United States and Central America under the Hotel PURE brand. The company also operates Friendly Reservations Online, a proprietary and sophisticated online booking system designed to execute reservations capture through Hotel PURE consumer facing websites, as well as individual hotel websites operated by Oriens on behalf of hotels branded under the Hotel PURE brand. Oriens is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information visit their corporate fact sheet: http://orienscorp.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/othm-fact-sheet1.pdf

Also see The Five Brands of Hotel PURE (http://orienscorp.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/oriens-othm-hotel-pure-brands.pdf)

Also see WSJ Article (http://dthin.gs/sUKIn0)   / USA Today Article (http://usat.ly/u1H13h )

Safe Harbor Statements in this news release that are not historical facts, including statements about plans and expectations regarding products and opportunities, demand and acceptance of new or existing products, capital resources and future financial results are forward-looking. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties which may cause the Company’s actual results in future periods to differ materially from those expressed. These uncertainties and risks include changing consumer preferences, lack of success of new products, loss of the Company’s customers, competition and other factors discussed from time to time in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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