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Channel Management: Unlocking the Full Potential in Distribution Strategy
HFTP | July 22, 2024
By Fernando Vives, Hospitality Labs Ambassador & Chief Commercial Officer at NH Group In today’s competitive hospitality market, the way you manage your distribution channels can make all the difference. Let’s explore the importance of a well-optimized distribution strategy and how it can transform the hotel’s performance. The Importance of a Well-Optimized Distribution Strategy A robust distribution strategy is crucial for reaching a wider audience and maximizing any hotel’s revenue potential. By effectively managing distribution channels, we can ensure that our rooms are visible to the right customers at the right tim...
Hyatt to Acquire Luxury Booking Platform Mr & Mrs Smith
Hyatt Hotels Corporation | May 1, 2023
CHICAGO (May 1, 2023) – Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) and Mr & Mrs Smith today announced an agreement for a Hyatt affiliate to acquire London-based Mr & Mrs Smith, a platform offering direct booking access to a carefully curated and growing collection of over 1,500 boutique and luxury properties in some of the world’s most desirable locations. Hyatt will acquire 100 percent of the asset-light Mr & Mrs Smith platform for an enterprise value of £53.0 million in cash consideration. “We are excited by this planned acquisition and to explore bringing guests and World of Hyatt members even more global luxury offerings...
U.S. Hospitality Gets More Hospitable With the Launch of allora.ai – the World’s First AI Booking Platform
allora.ai | October 24, 2022
Dallas, TX October 24, 2022. - Today, the U.S. hospitality market gained a powerful new AI tool to fix the broken direct hotel booking model, with the launch of allora.ai, a highly advanced booking platform which personalizes every aspect of a guest's online booking experience at a hotel website, from first click to check-in. Designed to help independent hoteliers gain a competitive advantage, it leverages learnings from more than 400 million online booking journeys and continually assesses thousands of data points to increase the volume and value of confirmed bookings while significantly lowering cancellation r...
Inntopia and AZDS Launch Multi-Product Version of Popular RevRaise Booking Engine
Inntopia | April 12, 2022
STOWE, VT & DENVER, CO- After years of concepting, UX/UI design, and development, Inntopia and AZDS are releasing a powerful update to AZDS’s RevRaise booking engine. By combining Inntopia’s industry-leading ability to aggregate and sell products across multiple systems with AZDS’ track record for delivering innovative, conversion-increasing booking engines, the new integration allows guests to easily and quickly book everything they need for a vacation from a single, intuitive interface without leaving the resort or hotel’s website domain. “We’ve built and continually optimized the luxury hospitality industry’s leading b...
Revinate Acquires Go Moment
Revinate | November 18, 2021
The strategic acquisition creates a single CDP that seamlessly powers omni-channel guest lifecycle communications and commerce for hoteliers, making it the ultimate direct booking platform for the global hospitality industry San Francisco, CA — 11/18/2021 — Revinate, a leader in omni-channel direct booking platforms for the hospitality industry, announced today it has acquired Go Moment, an AI-driven, commerce-enabled messaging solutions provider for the hospitality industry. The combined company will be called Revinate. Together, the companies’ focus continues to be enabling hoteliers to synthesize and activate their guest data int...
HotelKey Reaches 2,500 Hotels on Its Property Management, Reservations and Payments Platform
HotelKey | November 1, 2021
Complete Cloud-Based Property Management Platform for Hotels Brings Automation, Flexibility, Insight and Cost Savings to Leading Brands and Hundreds of Independent Properties Worldwide DALLAS, November 1, 2021 – HotelKey, the leading cloud-based hotel property management system for hotels, now has more than 2,500 hotels on its platform, making it one of the fastest-growing providers in the space. Enterprise clients include G6 Hospitality, owner of the Motel 6 and Studio 6, brands, Extended Stay America (ESA), Vagabond Inn and hundreds of independent hotels in five countries. HotelKey provides Cloud-based functionality-rich software t...
NextPax Named Vrbo® Elite Software Partner, Recognized For Delivering Next-Generation Connectivity to Optimize Performance
NextPax | March 12, 2020
NextPax earns Elite Partner designation from Vrbo®/HomeAway based on innovative platform enhancements and strong bookings revenue for vacation rental partners Salt Lake City (March 12, 2020) - NextPax, the most advanced channel management technology provider for hotels, resorts and vacation rentals worldwide, announced it has become a Vrbo® Elite Software Partner, the highest designation available for vacation rental software companies that integrate with Vrbo. Vrbo, Expedia Group’s global vacation rental business, is the go-to for families to book vacation homes, cabins, and condos with more than two million places to stay around the wo...
VTrips Sees 600% Growth in Booking.com Since Partnering With NextPax
NextPax, Inc. | January 7, 2020
Leading global hospitality channel manager strengthens VTrips’ position to accelerate and automate their business Salt Lake City, Utah (January 7, 2020) - NextPax, the most advanced channel management technology provider for hotels, resorts and vacation rentals worldwide, today revealed the results of their partnership with premier property management company, VTrips. Since 2018, NextPax has supported VTrips through connectivity from their PMS to Booking.com. Through the use of improved connectivity content development, channel updates, distribution strategies, and increases to the speed of onboarding for a record-breaking 600% in grow...
