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SiteMinder Named Among The Silicon Review’s 50 Best Companies to Watch
SiteMinder | October 17, 2017
Dallas, USA – A decade of market disruption has earned the global hotel industry's leading cloud platform, SiteMinder, a place on The Silicon Review's 2017 list of the '50 Best Companies to Watch'. The Silicon Review is one of the leading magazines for business and technology professionals around the world, focusing on innovative enterprise solutions developed by established industry providers. Explaining the reasons for SiteMinder's nomination, the magazine says: "The evolution to a level playing field for hotels has been one witnessed by SiteMinder – a company that, in 2006, disrupted the hospitality technology market by e...
The World’s 42nd Largest Hotel Chain, Barceló Hotels & Resorts, Signs With SiteMinder
SiteMinder | January 10, 2017
Dallas, US - The global hotel industry's leading cloud platform, SiteMinder, today announces it has secured 109 properties belonging to Barceló Hotels & Resorts, the third largest hotel chain in Spain and the 42nd largest in the world. The win adds nearly 33,000 hotel rooms to SiteMinder's distribution network one week ahead of FITUR, the world's tourism trade fair for the Ibero American markets, where SiteMinder will be exhibiting for the third consecutive year. Speaking on the decision to adopt SiteMinder's technology, Barceló Hotels & Resorts' head of e-distribution, Albert Santin, says, "SiteMinder has provided...
SiteMinder Celebrates a Decade of Serving the World’s Hotels
SiteMinder | November 2, 2016
Sydney, Australia – Following another year of continued expansion and solid growth, the global hotel industry's leading cloud platform, SiteMinder, is celebrating its 10th year of providing disruptive technology to hotels. More than 23,000 hotels today use SiteMinder's cloud-based solutions to acquire guests online, and the company says its trajectory remains strong as the booking landscape for hotels becomes evermore complex. Among those hotels is Park Hyatt Sydney, which adopted SiteMinder's Channel Manager in 2011 to gain greater control of its property online. "For hotels now, it's very difficult to see the full picture of whe...
SiteMinder Report: Average Booking Value on Direct Hotel Websites Nearly Double That on Third-Party Channels
SiteMinder | August 9, 2016
Dallas, US – The average booking value hotels are realizing on their direct website is nearly double the value they are receiving from third-party booking channels, the global hotel industry's leading cloud platform, SiteMinder, reveals today. The finding is based on the 43.5 million reservations that passed through SiteMinder's technology over the 12 months ending June 2016 to generate US$16 billion in revenue for the company's 22,000 hotel customers around the world. An analysis of the year-long data found that the average reservation was US$340 through SiteMinder's Channel Manager, which streamlines reservations made on more th...
SiteMinder Named Among Top 20 Technology Pioneers in Australia and New Zealand
SiteMinder | May 2, 2016
Sydney, Australia – The global hotel industry's leading cloud platform, SiteMinder, has ranked 17th in the inaugural Tech Pioneers Report by venture capital firm H2 Ventures and specialist lending provider Investec. The report showcases the 50 greatest pioneering technology companies to come out of Australia and New Zealand, to be at the leading edge of the 'ideas boom' and drivers of the economy of the future. "The Tech Pioneers 50 are those companies using technology to the best advantage and driving disruption within a variety of industries and sectors. These companies have a commitment to excellence, superior customer experien...
Fastpayhotels Partners with SiteMinder to Meet Hotel Demand for Prepaid Rooms
SiteMinder | April 13, 2016
Dallas, US – New hotel distribution platform Fastpayhotels has today partnered with the hotel industry's leading cloud platform, SiteMinder, to meet a growing demand from the hospitality industry for reservations to be paid at the time of booking. The partnership makes Fastpayhotels the only channel available through SiteMinder's Channel Manager that provides hotels payment at time of booking for their rooms, up to 390 days in advance of stays and with no refunds for cancellations. Alex Gisbert, co-founder and CEO of Fastpayhotels, says that due to the B2B platform's focus on dynamic rates and with ninety-nine percent of Fastpayho...
SiteMinder and Revinate Study: Hoteliers Say Distribution and Online Marketing Need Urgent Attention
SiteMinder | March 1, 2016
Dallas, US – Managed guest relationships, integrated technology systems, and improved data collection and security are the three most critical needs of hoteliers when it comes to distribution and online marketing, a whitepaper by hotel technology experts Dr Peter O'Connor, SiteMinder and Revinate has found today. The whitepaper, Envisioning the Future of Hotel Distribution and Online Marketing, is based on research conducted in late 2015 with hotelier delegates of World Travel Market London. It found that hoteliers see overcoming the challenges of a fast-paced online environment, advancing technology and ever-increasing consolidat...