Travelport reveals details of new hotel booking engine
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Travel technology provider Travelport yesterday revealed details of its new ‘Rooms and More’ hotel booking engine. Over the coming months, the new offering, which is designed to be a one-stop hotel shop for travel agents, will be made available to all agencies worldwide, even those who do not use the Travelport GDS platform. The development of Travelport Rooms and More, which is a key part of Travelport’s ongoing drive to enhance its hospitality offering, allows travel agents to book a greater choice of commissionable accommodation and take advantage of the rapidly growing hotel sector. Recent Euromonitor estimates predict that the value of global hotel bookings will reach US$545 billion in 2015, demonstrating a compound annual growth rate of 5.9 percent between 2010 and 2015. Ready for a phased worldwide roll out from July, Travelport Rooms and More combines the consumer insights, metasearch functionality and user interface developed by Sprice.com, which was acquired by Travelport in May 2010, with Travelport’s core B2B expertise, to deliver a completely integrated hotel booking platform. Key benefits for users include comparison shopping across multiple providers and the ability to both book and cancel hotel bookings in the same tool. As well as Travelport’s extensive GDS hotel content (available to Travelport GDS subscribers), the Travelport hospitality team has also signed new agreements with over 20 hotel aggregators and OTAs including industry leaders such as bedsonline, Transhotel, LateRooms.com and lowcostbeds. In total, over 200,000 hotel properties will be available to book, often with multiple options available on the same property, giving the travel agent complete transparency and the opportunity to select their preferred provider. Travelport Rooms and More will also include hotel reviews and images as well as rental car content provided by TUI Cars. Niklas Andr
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