Travelport triples hotel content

Travelport has tripled the number of hotel properties available via its ‘Travelport Rooms and More’ hotel booking engine since the tool launched last summer.

The travel technology provider recently added content from hotel aggregators Hotelzon and Tourico Holidays, taking the total ‘Rooms and More’ content to more than 340,000 properties with a combined total of around 700,000 supplier offers. Between them, Hotelzon and Tourico added around 74,000 hotels to the booking engine.

Travelport Rooms and More

Launched just over a year ago, Travelport Rooms and More was developed following Travelport’s acquisition of Sprice.com, the travel meta-search site.  This was combined with Travelport’s core GDS hotel booking connectivity to deliver a complete hotel booking platform.

“The case for developing Travelport Rooms and More was a strong one as it complements our GDS hotel offering and benefits everyone in the supply chain. Importantly, it negates the need for leisure travel agents to search for hotel offers on multiple websites, instead allowing them to access and book commissionable accommodation offers through one quick and easy process. With agents in over 70 countries now using it, we are also offering leisure hotel suppliers an additional platform through which to market their content,” said Niklas Andreen, Travelport’s Global Vice President of Hospitality & Partner Marketing.

Hotelzon and Tourico join 14 other hotel content suppliers on the portal, including Booking.com, Agoda, Hotels.com and LateRooms. The tool also contains Travelport’s GDS hotel content.

“Rooms and More makes hotel bookings much easier for travel agents, eliminating the need for them to visit multiple booking sites, so this partnership is beneficial for all parties. We look forward to adding our extensive portfolio to the booking tool and helping Travelport to provide an even better service for its customers,” said Jason Soss, Tourico’s President of Global Business Development.

Travelport Rooms and More is now available in more than 70 countries and six languages – English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish.

By Mark Elliott, 6 August 2012, Monday 9:28 AM