Featured Stocks on Today’s Edition of The Analyst’s Review: CHH, HOT, MAR, LVS, MGM
Thursday January 10, 9:59 am ET
A recent interview with Ken Chua, President and CEO of Oriens Travel & Hotel Management Corp. is also available now at WallSt.net (www.wallst.net)

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The Analyst’s Review is a daily podcast hosted by WallSt.net editor, Henry Truc that airs every morning at 9 a.m. EST on http://radio.wallst.net/profile.asp?id=193.

The show features informative interviews with Wall Street analysts on a wide range of topics including actively traded stocks, market movers, various industries, and macro economic trends affecting the market.

On today’s show, John Staszak, analyst for Argus Research discussed Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH; www.choicehotels.com), Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT; www.starwood.com), Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR; www.marriott.com), Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS; www.lasvegassands.com), and MGM Mirage (NYSE: MGM; www.mgm-mirage.com).

“It is a good time to buy long term,” Staszak said. “They’re down on temporary concerns. There’s been a lot of worry about the subprime meltdown affecting them and how it does so is because Starwood and Marriott – a portion of their earnings comes from selling timeshares…that’s sort of affected near-term investor expectations for them.”

Hear what else Staszak had to say about today’s featured stocks by visiting http://radio.wallst.net. Click on “The Analyst’s Review – Stocks in Focus: CHH, HOT, MAR, LVS, MGM” to hear the podcast in its entirety.

A January 8 interview with Ken Chua, President and CEO of Oriens Travel & Hotel Management Corp. (Pink Sheets: OTHM – News; http://www.orienscorp.com/) is also available now at www.wallst.net.

Through the acquisition of 128trip.com, Oriens Travel & Hotel has successfully positioned itself to potentially become one of the world’s most successful online travel booking agents, attracting nearly 2,000 visitors and more daily to its site for its travel products, having access to airline ticket booking, rental cars, and cruise ship vacation packages, and more than 50,000 hotel properties around the world. Utilizing this as a solid foundation, the company has set its sights on one of the greatest opportunities in the world, China and Central/South America travels. Oriens also has a wholly-owned subsidiary Hotel PURE, a branch of affordable and chic hotels for the budget traveler.

Interview highlights include detailed discussions on the following topics:

– market opportunity for the company’s mid and lower-end hotel chain,
Hotel PURE, in China and Central/South America
– the company’s “very simple … proven” business model
– reasons Hotel PURE was received with “a lot of enthusiasm” in Costa
Rica
– near-term goals for developing new properties in Central America
– reasons the company believes it could grow from “a very small company,
to a company that perhaps has over 200 hotel properties around the
world”
– reasons the company could become “the next Best Western”

To hear the interview in its entirety, and to read an in-depth report on the company, visit http://www.wallst.net/superstocks/superstocks_profile.asp?ticker=othm

Read what others have to say about OTHM, or post your own comments about the company on its official MyWallSt.net message board at http://www.mywallst.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=303.

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written by Carolyn

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 10, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) — Oriens Travel & Hotel Management Corp. (“Oriens”) (Other OTC:OTHM.PK – News) (http://www.OriensCorp.com), a Travel and Hotel Management Company, operating online travel site, 128trip (http://www.128trip.com) and hotel management subsidiary, Hotel Pure (http://www.HotelPure.com), is pleased to announce the addition of a second property, Las Palmas Inn, located in downtown San Jose, Costa Rica, to the Hotel Pure line of managed properties.

In a country that tourist visits have increased tremendously over the last 5 years, Costa Rica has an abundance of small family run hotel facilities. With travelers initiating booking accommodations and other travel plans through the internet, these small beautiful hotels are not able to compete for the travel dollar and great travel experiences are just not being utilized. Oriens intends to offer the budget conscious travelers exposure to these wonderful properties in conjunction with a selection of customized tour packages, which will complement the overall travel experience. The latest addition to the Hotel Pure brand includes rooms with private facilities such as cable TV, telephone facilities and includes premises suitable for the physically impaired.

To raise the awareness of the Costa Rica experience, Oriens will be joining with several major charter airlines, to offer a travel package which will incorporate prices not usually available in the Costa Rican market. Further, the local Chamber of Commerce and Tourism will partner with Oriens to develop a higher profile for the Costa Rica experience which will include offering hospitality and other service providers from around the world, an opportunity to familiarize themselves with all the exciting experiences that can be offered to their clients.

Ken Chua, President and CEO of Oriens comments, “I am so optimistic as I continue to see the expanded business opportunities which our staff in Costa Rica is bringing together, that we may need to rewrite the business plan for 2008. At the very least it seems we will have to bring more resources to Costa Rica, which we had not originally considered until the 3rd quarter of 2008. We continue to be contacted by local businesses who wish to be a part of the Hotel Pure brand and have had to increase our local hours of operation to meet with the unexpected demand.”

written by Carolyn

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Oriens Travel & Hotel Management Corp. (”Oriens”) (Pink Sheets: OTHM – News; http://www.orienscorp.com), a Travel and Hotel Management Company, operating online travel site 128trip (http://www.128trip.com) and hotel management subsidiary; Hotel PURE (http://www.HotelPure.com), are pleased to announce the addition of the Las Palmas House Inn property in downtown San Jose, Costa Rica, to the PURE B & B line of managed properties.

Costa Rica, a country where tourist visits have increased tremendously over the last five years, has an abundance of small family-run hotel facilities. With travelers initiating booking accommodations and other travel plans through the internet, these small beautiful hotels are not able to compete for the travel dollar and great travel experiences are just not being utilized. Oriens intends to offer the budget-conscious travelers exposure to these wonderful properties in conjunction with a selection of customized tour packages, which will complement the overall travel experience. The latest addition to the Hotel Pure brand includes rooms with private facilities, such as cable TV and phone facilities, and includes premises suitable for the physically impaired.

To raise awareness of the Costa Rica experience, Oriens will be joining with several major charter airlines to offer a travel package which will incorporate prices not usually available in the Costa Rican market. Further, the local Chamber of Commerce and Tourism will partner with Oriens to develop a higher profile for the Costa Rica experience, which will include offering hospitality and other service providers from around the world an opportunity to familiarize themselves with all the exciting experiences that can be offered to their clients.

The initial deployment of Hotel PURE properties in Costa Rica has been integrated to the corporate website at http://www.128trip.com and can be found by clicking on the “Hotels” link, under the Hotel PURE section, or by visiting http://www.128trip.com/express/hotelist.htm.

Ken Chua, President and CEO of Oriens, comments, “I am so optimistic as I continue to see the expanded business opportunities which our staff in Costa Rica is bringing together that we may need to rewrite the business plan for 2008. At the very least, it seems we will have to bring more resources to Costa Rica, which we had not originally considered until the third quarter of 2008. We continue to be contacted by local businesses who wish to be a part of the Hotel PURE brand and have had to increase our local hours of operation to meet with the unexpected demand.”

written by Carolyn