Hotel Extranet Solution (with Self Contracted Hotel Room Inventory) is Needed by Hotel Aggregators
Hotel extranet stands for hotel central reservation system and is commonly used by travel agencies worldwide. It’s about compiling the global hotel data in niche places and setting up the DB with hotel details, images, availability and pricing. A centralized database has numerous benefits associated with itself. These benefits of a centralized database are many, both form the viewpoint of the hotel and the customers. It works like as independent online hotel booking system but for niche cities and specific hotels, which are not available across all the web portals. Through the online hotel booking software, the customers gets a variety of choice to choose from and the Hotel management company has the assurance of a confirmed booking from the online visit.
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Hotel Extranet
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CRS as a tool is used to reach the global distribution system or GDS along with internet distribution system from a single point system. Hotel managers use this tool to manage their online sales and marketing avenues. They also project their rates and availability which are easily viewable by the sales channel i.e. the online travel agencies team aligned with CRS.
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Some of the primary functions in CRS as below
- Fully flexible and scalable for growing business.
- Platform which is easier to use.
- Manageability of rates, availability and content or information from single point of entry.
- Connectivity of hotels to GDS, online travel agents as well as mobile booking engines.
- Multiple distribution channels emphasized with channel manager usage.
Now lets understand, what information is stored in Hotel CRS. Information includes room types, room rates, conditions, inventories, plan rate architecture, reservation information, graphical information in the form of video, pictures and detailed hotel information like address, phone and fax numbers and geographical code information.
Hotel CRS reporting module is very important and calls for a number of standard reports. System reports are those reports which can be run daily, weekly, monthly or yearly and sometimes on need based request. Some of the basic reports include for expected arrivals, reservation, property forecasting, property details, agent activity and daily booking activity summary.
Travel Agencies
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So CRS can be conceptualized as backend office system of a booking engine which enables administration of rates and availabilities with ease and comfort. It also involves the management of statistical evolution of all incoming reservations.
In a nutshell, with the presence of Hotel CRS, travelers can search for more hotels and book them in a more efficient manner, as it works like a hotel’s central reservation system.
Here are few ways CRS benefits a company and travelers
- While travelers reserve their requirements over the hotel spread, convenience and efficiency comes into picture.
- Travel policy compliance increases as travelers use company-preferred booking or reservation channels
- From company’s viewpoint, as hotel booking data which is very vital is captured, this data is used for performance measurements and sometimes supplier negotiations.
- Traveler satisfaction is boosted as the tool is more user-friendly.
How Amadeus, Travelport, Sabre are important for agencies in Turkey, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia?
Success of online booking systems including airline reservation system depends on the type of inventory and pricing. GDS systems like Amadeus, Galileo and Sabre provide singular access to top inventory and thus better deals for end clients.
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