The GDS community presents enormous booking potential for your hotel(s):
- GDS travel agents and GDS-powered travel internet sites combined, generate over 100 million room nights* each year!
- Travel agents and corporations predominantly book trips for business customers. Corporate customers travel frequently and request standard to superior room types, bringing you regular, high-yield business.
- A seamless connection between your CRS and the GDS (via Amadeus LinkHotel) gives agents 24/7 access to your hotel content and ensures that rates and availability are accurate and reliable.
- Each GDS booking costs you far less to process than a voice booking – no manual intervention or staff costs are incurred.
- Travel agents and corporations earn up to 10% commission on every hotel booking (at a commissionable rate). This acts as an important incentive for agents and companies to use the GDS rather than the phone to make hotel bookings. Amadeus LinkHotel ensures that hotel commissions are paid automatically, giving agents complete confidence in our brand.
- The GDS provide agents with important booking tools which help deliver excellent customer service: full descriptive and visual hotel content, multiple search criteria, total pricing (including taxes, services, surcharges), alternative properties (when the requested hotel is booked), extensive rates (public and negotiated), last room availability, and full PNR and back office integration.
Don’t delay, get connected today!
* Source: TravelClick eMonitor and eTrack Reports – 2009 YTD
