internet booking engine
Is Your Hotel Tech Stack Weighing You Down?
Steve Lapekas | October 19, 2022
By Steve Lapekas, Chief Operations Officer and EVP, Business Development for APS (Above Property Services) “Sorry, you’ll have to give me a minute. I think I have to delete some things off my phone,” muttered my colleague, whom I had met up with for coffee, as he squinted at his iPhone in an exasperated fashion. “I have 128 GB of storage; I don’t understand how this always happens.” Of course, this is a familiar technological crux, as iPhone users frequently complain of operational dysfunction as their phone storage creeps towards its capacity limits. More often than not, this problem arrives not because we’ve all assumed the...
hospitalityPulse to Exhibit at HITEC in Houston to Promote Insights BI Platform and Attribute Based Selling
hospitalityPulse | June 12, 2018
Santa Cruz, CA (June 12, 2017) – hospitalityPulse™, a leading provider of next-generation technology solutions for the hotel industry will be showcasing a range of products at HITEC 2018 that decrease operational costs, increase guest satisfaction and help hoteliers drive incremental revenues. Attendees and media are invited to come by booth #418 to meet with the hospitalityPulse team and view live demos. "This year we are really excited to focus on the benefits of Attribute Based Selling - the idea that instead of selling hotel rooms by classification into room categories, guests can control their purchase path, put togethe...
The Future of the Hotel Internet Booking Engine
Glenn Wirick | January 11, 2018
By Glenn Wirick Expedia launched October 22, 1996 as a division of Microsoft. It was in that decade the Internet Booking Engine (IBE) was born. It took hold of the travel industry, dominating the space ever since. A plethora of booking engines was developed during that time. Some did well, and some did not. The one constant was the unending pursuit of perfection in creating a booking experience that met not only the needs of the industry—but also the needs of the guest. The IBE was initially developed for use on a desktop computer since the 90's pre-dated mobile devices. A great deal has changed since then, including guest buying ...
hospitalityPulse Offers a “Sneak Peek” of pulseBooker During HITEC 2017
hospitalityPulse | June 22, 2017
hospitalityPulse to debut its latest innovation pulseBooker - an "out of the box" Internet Booking Engine that FIRE clients will be able to use at no charge Santa Cruz, CA (June 22, 2017) – Attendees at this year's HITEC in Toronto, Canada will be introduced to the latest inspiring innovations from hospitalityPulse™, a leading provider of next-generation technology solutions for the hotel industry. hospitalityPulse will be unveiling its Internet Booking Engine (IBE) which complements the use of its FIRE (Feature Inventory Response Engine) solution. This new IBE is offered to FIRE users at no charge. pulseBooker enables sever...
Tsogo Sun’s New Booking Engine Streamlines Processes with Sabre’s Hospitality and Distribution Solutions
Sabre Corporation | March 9, 2017
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa and SOUTHLAKE, Texas, March 9, 2017 - Tsogo Sun has launched a brand new Internet Booking Engine (IBE) on its tsogosun.com website to provide a streamlined and user-friendly hotel reservation experience for guests booking into any of its 14,000 hotel rooms – in over 90 hotels and 14 entertainment destinations across South Africa, Africa, the Seychelles, and Abu Dhabi. The new IBE has been developed and is being managed by Sabre Hospitality Solutions, which is the world's largest central reservations system provider to the hospitality industry with over 36,000 hotels, resorts and chains using its technolo...