PRESS RELEASE 21/10/2009

Hip Hotels Music launched in partnership with Headland Media

Hip Hotels Music has been launched in partnership with Headland Media to provide a chic, bespoke and adaptable music service for unique hotels around the world.

Hip Hotels Music has over 10,000 carefully considered music tracks, all cleared for public broadcasting and divided into nine distinct categories. Hip Hotels’ Herbert Ypma says: “This is not music you will hear on the radio or easily find in record stores or online. The music on Hip Hotels Music is individual, unusual and original - the very qualities that inspired the creation of the Hip Hotels book series 10 years ago. There is a category to suit every mood, every hour and every corner of the hotel, from the calm of Ambient Instrumental, to the rhythmic intoxicant of Late Night House and the cool restraint of Acid Lounge.”

The process of clearing music rights for public broadcasting can be arduous for a hotel and selecting the right style of music for the right area and for the right time of day is something often left until after opening, and then it forever lingers on the ‘to do’ list. Headland Media’s music system takes the headache out of this process, providing a proven licensed service that hotels just ‘plug and play’ to install and then maintain, service and update via the internet.

Find out more about this brand new service at www.hiphotelsmusic.com

Headland Media already provides bespoke music services to the European retail sector and other media services to the worldwide hotels and cruise line sectors.

About Headland Media

Headland Media is an international media company providing news, information and music content in text, audio and video formats to the retail, maritime and hotel sectors.

We have nearly thirty years experience, combining the technical and market expertise of the former TEAMtalk Satellite, Walport International, Good Morning News and TEAMtalk Broadcast businesses, employing over 70 members of staff in our five main offices in Liverpool, Leeds and Reigate in the UK, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Fort Lauderdale in the US.

Customers include chain retail outlets, individual stores, commercial and business aircraft, merchant shipping vessels, government & military units, cruise line companies, super yachts, luxury resorts, city hotels, safari camps, gyms and individuals travelling on business. Headland Media is a proven leader in customer satisfaction, linking businesses and technology with the best-fit solutions, every day.

Contact us:

Head of Hotel Sales / Roy Court
E: roy.court@headlandmedia.com
T: +44 (0)151 243 1607
F: +44 (0)151 236 9907

Marketing Manager / Sue Henney
E: sue.henney@headlandmedia.com
T: +44 (0)151 243 1605
F: +44 (0)151 236 9907

About Hip Hotels

The Hip Hotels series covers 14 titles to date – in 3 different sizes. Atlas is the quintessential coffee table companion and the smaller city guides are the last word on where to stay and where to eat in each cosmopolitan capital.

Since May 1999, the Hip Hotels series has sold well in excess of 2 million copies worldwide and continues to be committed to a schedule of 2 new titles a year. Printed in 10 languages, Hip Hotels has launched an entirely new chapter in the evolution of travel. It is now accepted that hotels have become the destination.

Individual, independent hotels have become the fastest growing and most consistent component of the global tourism industry. The content for future titles and publications keeps expanding exponentially and Hip Hotels, with its contacts, database and photo reportage capabilities, is perfectly placed to continue to document this worldwide trend.