Travelport unveils new hotel booking engine
Travelport Rooms and More is rolling out a global one-stop site offering content from more than 20 aggregators and online travel agents.
An improved version of existing online leisure portal Travelport Leisure, Travelport Rooms and More allows agents to compare deals across aggregators using meta-search technology from Sprice.com, which was acquired by Travelport last May.
In total, over 200,000 hotel properties will be available to book, often with multiple options available on the same property, giving the travel agent complete transparency and the opportunity to select their preferred provider.
The site can also be accessed via a single sign-on, with commissions from multiple sources collated and paid out monthly. Commissions are roughly between five and more than 10 per cent.
Key benefits for users include comparison shopping across multiple providers and the ability to both book and cancel hotel bookings in the same tool.
Agents do not have to be Travelport GDS subscribers to use the new service. GDS users, however, would have the added benefit of integrating their air bookings with hotel purchases.
OTAs signed up include bedsonline, Transhotel, LateRooms.com and lowcostbeds.
Niklas Andréen, Travelport’s group vice president, global hospitality, explained that new content would continue to be added post-launch and estimated that there could be as many as 50 aggregators signed up by the end of the year.
Andréen said the case for developing Travelport Rooms and More was a strong one – “it complements our GDS hotel offering and provides leisure and mixed travel agencies with a great new hotel booking engine.â€
Ian Jarrett
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