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Get connected and start selling rooms online! Choose from our selection of GDS and OTA Channel Management services. The fastest and easiest way to start selling your rooms online through Global Distribution Systems like Sabre, Apollo, Amadeus, and Galileo/WorldSpan/TravelPort – used by over 650,000 travel agents worldwide and connected to more than 100,0000 travel sites like Expedia, Travelocity, Booking.com, and Orbitz. The BookingCenter OTA Contract Rates Program facilitates a direct connection for preferred placement on major OTA search engines like Booking.com, Expedia and Orbitz. Our seamless GDS Interface allows you to automatically manage availability and rates in your PMS system. Make the most out of your Global Distribution System with effective OTA Channel Management with contracted rates. Each year BookingCenter offers a list of consortia to our properties for participatin. If a property chooses to participate in the annual program, they will receive instructive e-mails, starting in June, keeping them up to date with the bidding process for the next year. Along with keeping them informed, BookingCenter makes a strong effort to market your property to these mega agencies. BookingCenter can now reach many more ‘niche’ OTAs through its partnership with RDX.and help you make money and increase efficiency by combining your front and back office (PMS) operations into a seamless, 24 x 7 global travel marketplace. And it all happens automatically. By integrating RDX channels, BookingCenter offers access to over 120 new OTA channels and wholesale networks, as listed here |
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To get started with GDS and OTA, see: GDS Network, OTA Contract Rates: How to Enroll In GDS/OTA ConnectionsWhat is the Global Distribution System (GDS)What is the Global Distribution System (GDS) is an international, interconnected network of traditional travel agents and online travel agent (OTA) websites. Because the traditional GDS systems are only a fraction of the ways people research and book travel these days, when combined with non-traditional networks, BookingCenter refers to the entirety as the Global Booking Network.[/su_expand] Why enroll in GDS?
What’s the difference between GDS and OTA Contract Rates?The Global Distribution System (GDS) is an international, interconnected network of traditional travel agents and online travel agent (OTA) websites. This vehicle offers a very wide marketing approach, as over 8500 travel agent sites and databases have access to your property’s information. An OTA Contract Rate is a narrow marketing approach, offering a direct contract between your property and one Online Travel Agent. This can be strategic as there are many perks that are offered your property because of that direct agreement. When these two are combined, it offers a comprehensive global and targeted approach to online distribution. Why connect GDS to your PMS?With BookingCenter, you not only get more connections, you have complete control of what they see. You can allocate specific rooms to distribution partners, provide unique rooms, rates, availability to whichever OTA channel/agent you wish, and reserve others for your walk-ins, your website, or your partner agents. Allocate rooms to suit your needs, your goals. You strategically price your rooms, conncted to your actual availability, in real–time. Set Length of Stay and cancellation policies to fit each different agent. When you set these parameters in your BookingCenter management tool, it is uploaded to each distribution channel. When reservations are made on those distribution channels, they are seamlessly downloaded into your BookingCenter
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