Corporate Traveler Sweetens Melon with Hotel Booking Tool

Journey administration firm Company Traveler has applied a brand new lodge reserving instrument inside its Melon journey reserving and administration platform within the U.S. and Canada, the corporate introduced.

The instrument is constructed from Company Traveler dad or mum firm Flight Centre Travel Group’s partnership with aggregator technology specialist HotelHub, which aggregates lodge content material throughout a number of world distribution techniques in addition to non-GDS channels right into a single desktop interface, standardizing charges and room sorts throughout channels to keep away from duplication. Company Traveler mentioned all its lodge content material sources in the USA and Canada, in addition to any negotiated charges by its shoppers, have been built-in into Melon by way of HotelHub. Melon additionally has deployed HotelHub’s API, so shoppers can join the content material to their very own most popular reserving instrument.

Company Traveler has enabled billback fee modes within the lodge reserving platform, enabling use of such fee choices as digital playing cards, in response to the TMC.

“Suggestions from Company Traveler consultants utilizing the tech has been extraordinarily constructive, and so they have been impressed with the benefit of navigation, velocity in making bookings and integration of digital funds throughout the answer,” HotelHub chief industrial officer Eric Meierhans mentioned in a press release. “They’re additionally passionate about performance such because the ‘e book once more’ function, maps exhibiting lodges and charges, selection of search standards, and reserving document standardization.”

Company Traveler, Flight Centre’s division specializing in small and midsized clients, now’s working to implement the lodge reserving instrument and API connection within the U.Okay., which it initiatives shall be achieved throughout the subsequent few months. South Africa will comply with within the fourth quarter of this 12 months.

Company Traveler launched the Melon platform rather less than a 12 months in the past.