HOTELBEDS EMPLOYS XML TECHNOLOGY FOR RATE TIGER
London, October 15th , 2007 - Distribution channel improves update functionality
Rate Tiger, a leader in online distribution and revenue management technology solutions for the hospitality industry, announces that Hotelbeds and Rate Tiger have now further enhanced their distribution partnership by connecting both platforms via XML technology.
HotelBeds’ customers are now able to update inventory and room rates in real-time through Rate Tigers’s single interface using RT Allocator and RT Channel Manager.
The use of XML technology now provides complete access to the product portfolio of Hotelbeds within the Rate Tiger product suite. This development will enhance the performance of communication between the two systems and will provide the hotelier with the ability of direct interaction with Hotelbeds system through the Rate Tiger interface.
“Rate Tiger aims to make the process of updating distribution channels quicker and more efficient for hotel customers in order to significantly reduce the time they have to spent managing various channels” said Sascha Hausmann, Rate Tiger’s Chief Operating Officer. “By integrating XML technology for RT Allocator and RT Channel Manager the operation is streamlined for hoteliers when they’re placing inventory and room rates across the channel.”
“Rate Tiger is becoming one of the best industry tools for hoteliers to catalogue their inventory online,” said Carlos Munoz, Operations Director of ODS / Hotelbeds. “Hotelbeds has been integrating new internet technologies to enable our customers and the hospitality market in general to work faster and smarter. We will continue to constantly improve our connectivity, closing the gap between our customers and the hospitality market.”
Rate Tiger Products:
- RT Shopper
- RT Allocator
- RT Channel Manager
About Rate Tiger
Rate Tiger has been a leader in Online Distribution Management tools since 2001 and continues to pioneer new technologies for the hospitality industry. Rate Tiger, by eRevMax, now operates in 60 countries and 415 cities across the world and has become the industry-wide benchmark for managing online distribution. The RateTiger product portfolio enables hoteliers to switch from a time-consuming and complicated multi-channel process to a single point of entry to the market, hence allowing for easy update of distribution channels and travel portals, and rate comparison with competitors, in real-time.
Rate Tiger is headquartered in the US, with a second office in London (UK) and a technical development centre in India. eRevMax employs over 120 people across the globe. Rate Tiger is rapidly expanding across the European and American markets. For more information please visit http://www.ratetiger.com.
About Hotelbeds/ODS
We are part of the recently formed TUI Travel PLC and operate within the Online Destination Services Sector (ODS). This sector provides services to market leading incoming agencies, online accommodation to businesses and consumers, and specialist services to cruise lines and the incentive & conference market.
Hotelbeds offers hotel accommodation online and other services in destination such as excursions, tours or transfers. We offer more than 25,000 hotels and apartments in 900 destinations worldwide and over 1,200 travel organisers put their trust in us. For more information please visit http://www.hotelbeds.com
On 3rd September, the merger of the Tourism Division of TUI AG and First Choice Holidays PLC was completed. The new company, TUI Travel PLC is listed on the London Stock Exchange and operates out of more then 20 source markets serving over 30 million customers world wide. TUI Travel brings together two very successful leisure travel businesses which will be able to offer our customers even greater choice than we could in the past and we look forward to continuing to deliver outstanding product and service across our brands. Our focus as a business will remain on ensuring that we provide our partners with strong support and our customers with the best leisure travel experience possible. For more information please visit http://www.tuitravelplc.com