Thomas Cook to sell accommodation ‘per night’ through independent agents
Thomas Cook has launched two sales portals giving independent agents access to its bed stock.
The first, thomascookhotels.com, is a trade only website with an inventory of 1,000s of properties with ‘per night’ pricing.
The bed stock is from the Thomas Cook main charter brands, with Thomas Cook acting as the principal on all bookings.
Work is underway to integrate the stock of the former MyTravel charter brands into the service.
The second new sales portal is an XML accommodation feed into the internal tour operating systems of travel retailers.
This means agents can sell all Thomas Cook accommodation found on thomascookhotels.com either as ‘accommodation only’ or as part of a package through their own branded selling systems.
Thomas Cook has already agreed to supply the XML feed to key trade partners including CTTG, Hays Travel and Barrhead Travel.
As with thomascookhotels.com, Thomas Cook remains the principal on all accommodation transactions.
Stephen Vaughan, head of sales and distribution for Thomas Cook’s independent travel division, said: “Time and again independent agents have asked us to give them the ability to sell Thomas Cook accommodation in a totally flexible web environment and we are really pleased with what we have are now able to offer.
“We do recognise agents want to package dynamically, and as a result designed a which is why we price ‘per night’ to allow any duration that customers request.”
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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