Charlottesville, Virginia (June 2, 2015) – Hotels using the Regatta booking engine on their websites have yet another competitive advantage. Regatta allows consumers to put a room on hold and lock in the rate for 24 hours, in exchange for the customer’s email address. This is one of many tools that the patent-pending hotel booking engine includes to reduce abandonment of the checkout screen and create retargeting opportunities. 
Regatta Travel Solutions has earned a reputation for bringing highly innovative tools to the industry that empower hotels to significantly grow their direct online booking volume. With its “Free 24 Hour Hold” tool, hotels have access to a dashboard where special offers can be customized for each customer that has put a room on hold, based on their intended travel dates. “Some hotels are converting about 10% of the customers that put a room on hold while some of our more aggressive clients are converting north of 50%, said Ashwin Kamlani, Founder & CEO of Regatta Travel Solutions.
“This is the first tool that I have seen that allows me to offer individual personalized offers to customers depending on what I have on the books and based on the dates the customer wants to travel, before they have even committed to booking,” said Geeta Chatrani, owner of Yellow Bird and South Gap Hotels. “Over the last five years that we have worked with Regatta they have constantly introduced innovative tools to the online booking engine that benefit both the consumer and the hotel.”
Visit Regatta Travel Solutions during the upcoming HITEC show in Austin, Texas.
