Corporate Traveller to roll out enhanced hotel booking tool

Journey administration firm Company Traveller is to introduce its new resort reserving instrument inside its Melon on-line platform to UK purchasers later this yr.

The brand new reserving resort platform inside Melon makes use of know-how from HotelHub and has already been applied for Company Traveller’s consultants and purchasers within the US and Canada.

The Flight Centre-owned TMC is now planning to combine HotelHub’s API on-line reserving instrument connection and agent reserving answer within the UK by the top of September after which in South Africa throughout the remaining quarter of 2022.

HotelHub’s know-how aggregates resort content material from a number of GDS and non-GDS channels right into a single interface for brokers. It additionally standardises charges and room sorts throughout these channels to forestall duplication. Shoppers’ most popular resort programmes and any negotiated company charges will also be built-in into the system.

Melon additionally makes use of HotelHub’s API to attach with the shopper’s most popular on-line reserving instrument in order that travellers and bookers have entry to the identical resort content material and reserving expertise.

The partnership with Company Traveller follows Flight Centre Journey Group’s decision last year to select HotelHub to supply a world resort reserving and distribution answer for its company journey manufacturers. 

Eric Meierhans, HotelHub’s chief business officer, stated: “Suggestions from Company Traveller consultants utilizing the tech has been extraordinarily optimistic and so they have been impressed with the benefit of navigation, pace in making bookings, and integration of digital funds inside the answer.”

Chris Lynes, senior vice chairman at Company Traveller Americas, added: “Investing in know-how has been a precedence for Company Traveller to make sure we’re offering the perfect help for our purchasers’ journey programmes.”