PlacesToStay to supply Spanish online specialist
Web-based hotel reservations business PlacesToStay has started supplying inventory to online sun and sea accommodation specialist Alturabeds.com.
Initially, XML technology will first connect Fexco AllTravel-owned PlacesToStay’s European city hotel inventory to Alturabeds’ system, then make available its global stock of over 25,000 hotels.
Alturabeds, part of Spanish leisure group Optursa, provides online booking services for almost 3,000 hotels, apartments and villas throughout southern Spain, the Balearics and Canary Islands, and the Algarve. Accommodation in Florida will soon be offered on its website which handles both consumer and travel trade customers.
The company offers other services, such as airport transfer service Resorthoppa and destination services which support customers in resort. Sister companies include Hotels Globales, with over 40 holiday hotels, Air Madrid, providing low cost flights to South America, and Madrid-based Alada Tours, specialising in holidays and escorted tours in South America.
Alturabeds chief executive Paul Randall, who spent 16 years with First Choice and was a founding member of Falcon Holidays in Ireland, finalised the supply deal with Tim Wright, Fexco AllTravel’s business development and distribution director at World Travel Market.
PlacesToStay is the new name for the former CNG Travel Group online hotel reservation business bought by Fexco AllTravel in October.
Wright said: “Competing effectively in today’s travel market demands more and better accommodation content, efficient internet technology, and easy booking.
“By integrating PlacesToStay hotel content with its own inventory, Alturabeds will offer even more accommodation choice and value which I’m confident will lift our mutual bookings and revenue.”
Report by Phil Davies
Phil Davies
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