Reservations

As well as ensuring your hotels can be booked on the major GDS and IDS sites, managing your voice reservations and providing a real-time booking engine on your own branded website present new technology challenges.

The argument for voice bookings

In recent years, online travel sales have risen beyond all expectations, but a substantial number of consumers still prefer to book on the telephone. Voice reservations account for 22%* of business for major hotel brands, and in our own research, this number rose to more than a third**.

The argument for brand website bookings

And while internet travel retailers are focusing more on hotel content, 70% of all hotel web bookings originate from hotel brand sites*.

Help is at hand…

In addition to providing multi-channel distribution services, Amadeus LinkHotel offers our hotel members an automated voice reservations tool with full booking functionality, and an online web booking engine using the latest internet reservations technology. With our complete suite of IT tools and services, you can target all potential travellers, regardless of their booking method of choice.

GDS, IDS, Web and Voice bookings – how will you efficiently control the sale of your hotel rooms across all channels? There is one simple solution: Amadeus LinkHotel Web Planning – a centralised rate and inventory management tool designed with your needs in mind.

* Source: TravelClick eMonitor and eTrack Reports – 2009 YTD
**Telephone research conducted by Amadeus with a representative sample of Hoteliers in December 2009.

Benefits of joining Amadeus LinkHotel:

Centralised content management solution: 'Amadeus LinkHotel Web Planning'.

Business reporting: 'Amadeus LinkHotel Reports'.

Voice reservation booking tool: 'Amadeus LinkHotel Voice'.

Multi-GDS and IDS connectivity.

Customised product training.

Global recognition of an established and respected travel industry brand.

Web booking engine functionality: 'Amadeus LinkHotel Web'.

GDS marketing advisory service.

Long-term commitment for continued investment in Amadeus LinkHotel technology solutions, sales tools and marketing services.

Competitive fees, with no hidden costs. Our business model integrates all services into a single transaction fee.

Dedicated Account Manager, ensuring streamlined support from signature to activitation, and our ongoing advisory service post-launch.

Flexible membership options: solutions are modular and scaleable, so can be upgraded at any time to suit each hotel company’s inidividual requirements.

Consortia and Corporate RFP management.

The latest hotel distribution technology based on open standards and OTA compliant: offers unparalleled scalability and reliability guarantees.

Automated commission processing: 'Amadeus LinkHotel Commissions'.

PMS and RMS interfaces.

Exclusive Amadeus LinkHotel member benefits: sign-up marketing package, specialist product information, representation at major trade events and much more…

Please contact us to find out more about joining Amadeus LinkHotel

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