07 April 2009

Hotels4u.com adds Wyndham and Choice Hotels

Wyndham and Choice Hotels are being made available to book by agents via bed bank Hotels4u.com’s XML booking system.

Wyndham properties are available this week with Choice Hotels to be added at the end of the month.

The addition of Wyndham extends the Thomas Cook-owned company’s US and UK hotel offering, with popular brands such as Knights Inn, Super 8, Days Inn, Ramada, Howard Johnson and Hawthorn Suites available.

The deal with Choice offers agents access to brands including Comfort, Quality and Clarion in areas ranging from the Far East and South America to Estonia. It also opens up a greater selection of properties in the Nordic countries and regional France.

They follow the addition of Rezidor hotels, which includes the Park Inn and Radisson SAS chains, to hotels4u.com’s portfolio earlier this year, offering agents more than 45,000 properties on its new XML booking system.

To gain access to Choice and Wyndham on hotels4u.com’s XML programme, agents need to email xmlsetup@hotels4u.com.

They will then receive a new message specification, along with an explanatory note on how to get started.

Sales and marketing director John Harding said: "The introduction of Wyndham and Choice Hotels to our XML property portfolio highlights the additional benefits available to agents using our new XML booking system.

"Not only do they have access to thousands more properties than are currently available on our standard system, agents also benefit from more flexible search capabilities and quicker response times - two attributes central to the dynamic packaging market."

by Phil Davies