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SiteMinder Lands Its 30,000th Customer in River Palace Hotel
SiteMinder | March 28, 2018
Dallas, USA – The global hotel industry's leading cloud platform, SiteMinder, has signed its 30,000th hotel customer as a show of the worldwide demand for integrated hotel guest acquisition technology. SiteMinder has secured River Palace Hotel in Italy to achieve its most recent milestone and continue its strong trajectory in the dynamic European region where forty percent of its hotel customers today are based. According to the director of River Palace Hotel, Paolo Rivolo, what the property needed was flexibility in the setup of its management systems and more autonomy for guests. "Technology is imperative for a hotel like ours, ...
Airbnb Launches Global Hotel Technology Partnership to Support Boutique Hotels, Bed and Breakfasts
SiteMinder | February 7, 2018
Partnership With SiteMinder Makes it Easier for Traditional Hospitality Providers to Reach Airbnb Community San Francisco -- Airbnb today launched its first global hotel technology partnership with SiteMinder, the leading cloud platform for hotels to attract and book guests across the globe. Under the new partnership, traditional hospitality businesses that use SiteMinder and meet Airbnb's hospitality standards can quickly and seamlessly list rooms on the platform. The new technology developed jointly by the two companies will now make it possible for hotels to connect booking information to their existing management system in real-time...
SiteMinder Unveils the Top 15 Revenue-Generating Booking Channels of 2017 for Hotels in the USA & Canada
SiteMinder | February 6, 2018
Dallas, USA – The global hotel industry's leading cloud platform, SiteMinder, today reveals the 15 booking channels that generated the greatest revenue for hotels in the USA, Canada and other key tourism destinations in 2017. The lists are based on the 72 million hotel reservations that passed through SiteMinder's channel management solution during the year to produce US$21.53 billion in gross revenue for the company's 28,000 hotel customers around the world. Reaffirming the value of having a diversified hotel distribution strategy, the lists of the top-performing booking channels once again feature a range of both B2B and househo...
SiteMinder Partners With PriceTravel Holding and Despegar, Says It Is Committed to Latin America’s Hotels
PriceTravel Holding and Despegar | September 5, 2017
Dallas, USA – Four months since announcing Chile's RQ Grupo Hotelero as its 26,000th customer, the global hotel industry's leading cloud platform, SiteMinder, today reveals it is more committed than ever to supporting the burgeoning tourism industries across Latin America. The company has partnered with PriceTravel Holding and Despegar, two of the top online travel agencies within the region, to provide local hotels greater visibility within international source markets. The partnerships follow SiteMinder's strategic connectivity agreement with Best Day Travel Group announced in August. PriceTravel Holding's CEO, Esteban Vel&aacut...
Best Day Travel Group Signs with SiteMinder, Strengthens Offering to Hotels
Best Day Travel Group | August 2, 2017
Dallas, USA – Best Day Travel Group, one of the leading companies focused on the tourism sector in Latin America, today announces it has signed a connectivity agreement with SiteMinder, the global hotel industry's leading cloud platform. The strategic partnership provides Best Day Travel Group's hotel clients greater reach and growth within international markets, with real-time delivery of reservations for hotels to meet the needs of the dynamic online booking market. The partnership also forms part of Best Day Travel Group's strategy to enhance its leadership within Latin America and support its growth globally, by strengthening ...
Red Planet Hotels Begins Building Its Empire with SiteMinder
SiteMinder | July 26, 2017
Dallas, USA – Eight months after receiving a multi-million dollar investment to accelerate its expansion throughout Asia, Red Planet Hotels, the fast-growing Pan-Asian budget hotel chain, today reveals it has begun building its empire with the help of the global hotel industry's leading cloud platform, SiteMinder. Red Planet Hotels owns and operates 24 hotels in Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan, and says employing the market's most powerful distribution technology is necessary to sell rooms that over the next two years will see exponential growth in numbers. The company's expansion roadmap includes the opening of fou...
Why Hotel Distribution Is No Longer a Job, but a Button
Mateus Coelho | July 6, 2017
By Mateus Coelho, Regional Manager – Iberia and Brazil, SiteMinder I read an article recently about the slow demise of publishing. It looked into how publishing is hardly still an industry in today's day and age, thanks to platforms such as Wordpress which have empowered anybody, from any professional background, based anywhere in the world, to be a publisher of their own content – to a mass audience and in an instant, no less. It made me wonder whether – or, rather, hope that – one day soon, I'd be reading a similar article about the demise of slow, onerous and manual data entry at hotels. As both someone who fl...
SiteMinder Penetrates Latin America, Signs RQ Grupo Hotelero as 26,000th Hotel
SiteMinder | May 10, 2017
Dallas, USA – The global hotel industry's leading cloud platform, SiteMinder, today announces it has surpassed 26,000 hotel customers with the signing of RQ Grupo Hotelero, an established provider of extended-stay accommodation in Chile's major business districts. The signing of RQ Grupo Hotelero's properties in Santiago, Providencia and Las Condes comes mere weeks after SiteMinder's exhibition at World Travel Market Latin America and the company says it plans to only deepen its penetration within the region. RQ Grupo Hotelero has seven properties to provide guests more than 230 rooms. The group's commercial manager, Ana Marticore...
