Amadeus unveils new hotel distribution platform
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Amadeus has unveiled what it calls the “next generation hotel distribution architecture” which allows advanced search capabilities. It has completed the migration of 75,000 hotel properties onto the platform which runs on the Linux operating system.
The travel industry technology company said the new distribution architecture doubles the search flexibility for travel agents. Hotels are now categorised based on 100 separate attributes, allowing travel agents to search for properties even more precisely. For instance, they could search “hotels in France with a swimming pool”. More advanced search attributes are possible soon, allowing agents to search, for example, “hotels in Thailand which were rated highly by families”.
“Amadeus’ new platform also offers much clearer and richer display of information about available rooms,” a statement said.
“Hotels will be able to seamlessly distribute available room/rates, price and descriptions in whatever language the travel agent requests.”
Amadeus said advanced search and more precise hotel information will become even more important as more hotel content is added to the GDS.
Amadeus said it is also working on a new user-interface - available next year – to maximise the hotel selling process for travel agencies combining the best elements of consumer booking interfaces. It is also piloting Amadeus Worldwide Commission Manager, a solution which tracks all the commissions that are due from participating hotels to travel agents.
“With more than two billion people checking-in to hotels each year - more even than the airline industry - the hotel industry is one of the world’s biggest in terms of transactions processed, but the industry’s IT processes remain fragmented and unready to cope with the enormous increase in transactions as more hotels are booked online,” says Antoine Medawar, Managing Director, Hospitality Business Unit, Amadeus, “Today’s announcement is a major milestone in the roll-out of Amadeus’ next generation hotel platform which we will launch in 2008 and is designed from the ground up to help hotels reduce costs and increase revenue by centralising their technology infrastructure and preparing their businesses for the next wave in the online evolution of the travel industry.”
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