AGENTS can now
compare hotel rates
across multiple hotel
aggregators, chains and
representation companies
within the same workflow
on Amadeus.
This is thanks to
Amadeus loading regional
and international hotel
aggregator content on to
Amadeus Hotels Plus, a
section of the Amadeus
Selling Platform.
Amadeus project
manager, Marisa van
der Linde, says this will
reduce the workload that
agents face when booking
hotels. “Hotel booking
processes are rarely
standardised across points
of sale. This means that
agents have to shop for
rates across a variety of
channels, both GDS and
third-party websites, and
even double check with
hotels directly. This wastes
both time and money, not
just when researching
and making bookings, but
with paperwork and data
consolidation afterwards.”
Amadeus’s new content
also gives agents the
ability to compare hotel
rates (by room or day) from
11 aggregators in one
place. The aggregators
include: Alba Travel,
bedsonline, Expedia
Affiliate Network, gta, H
Corpo, HRS Global Hotel
Solutions, sunhotels,
tboholidays.com, Teldar
Travel, totalstay, and yatra.
“Our system provides
the rates from these
aggregators for 750 000
hotel properties across
310 chains. It then allows
the agent to compare
these rates with the hotel
chains’ GDS rate. This will
help agents to make sure
that they are getting the
best price and hotel for
their client’s requirements,
Marisa added.
Agents will be able to
see if they have access
to prepaid (requires a
deposit), or guaranteed
(able to pay with a
credit card) agreements
for properties with an
aggregator, as this will be
displayed underneath the
rate. The new content can
also be filtered to show
prepaid or promotional
rates, extra-low rates,
facilities, family rooms and
location.
“In order to make use
of this content, agencies
will need to submit their
credentials for their existing
aggregator relationships
to their Amadeus
account manager,” said
Marisa. “They will then
receive access to the
content relevant to these
agreements. Without these
credentials they will not
be able to access the
aggregator’s content.”
The platform allows
agents to process hotel
bookings so that they
automatically appear on the
same invoice and itinerary
as the client’s flight and
transfer bookings. “This will
reduce manual processes
and paperwork at all
stages of the process,”
Marisa added.
