28th of August 2008
BookingBooster wins business from MSA operator in the UK
Welcome Breaks signs group agreements with Booking Booster
Welcome Break Group UK, the second largest MSA operator in the UK with a portfolio of 21 hotels, has signed an agreement to roll out the new Web 3.0 Channel Management and Internet Distribution platform from BookingBooster to enhance its business processes. The new systems have been trialled at two of the hotels and the remaining hotels are scheduled to be rolled out ongoing over a period of 2 months.
Welcome Break needed to significantly reduce the time it took to manage its online distribution channels. Previously this function took several hours per day to update its rates and availability on its online distribution channels.
“We have to manage our rates and availability on a daily basis across all channels in order to remain competitive” said Darren Woodhouse, Hotels Operations Manager of Welcome Break Group.
“We evaluated a number of tools that were available in the market and chose BookingBooster as it has all the features we wanted and a very easy interface to manage our rates and availability. In addition, its allows us to prioritise our distribution channels so that we can give our closest partners the best available inventory”
“BookingBooster has spent 18 months on its technology and uses new and innovative Web 2.0 features to assist hoteliers to distribute their products on the Internet. We are delighted to have Welcome Break as a partner” said Peter Carlsen, CEO of BookingBooster.
About BookingBooster Ltd (www.bookingbooster.com) | BookingBooster is a privately owned, UK-based company committed to helping hotel operators and representation companies distribute their inventory across Internet channels. Run by ex-hoteliers and web developers at the cutting edge of technology, we understand hotel operators’ needs and objectives and the issues you face in your everyday work… and build the most intuitive and easy to use web-based software products.
About Welcome Break Group (www.welcomebreak.co.uk) | Welcome Break is the second largest MSA operator in the UK, with a portfolio of service areas which include hotels, KFC, Burger King and WH Smith. The company offers motorway services, goods and amenities including restaurants, shopping and hotels.
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18th of January 2008
Booking Booster.com partnering with ITS Magellan Services
Channel Management integration with ITS Magellan CRS
Booking Booster.com the world first web 2.0 Hotel Channel Manager is expanding in Europe by partnering with US based ITS Magellan Services.
Booking Booster will provide a switch for ITS Magellan and their CRS and the first ITS customers to benefit from this new API will be the Italian market ,in which ITS Magellan already has strong position with almost 200 hotels.
For Booking Booster the launch is another important milestone for the new API switch outside the UK.
We are pleased to be able to connect with a CRS like ITS Magellan and have plans to increase our exposure to new and interesting markets,’ explains Peter Carlsen, CEO at Booking Booster.com, who added, ITS Magellan allows us access to bigger and larger market shares and even more importantly together we can increase the CRS customers operational efficiency.”
For more information regarding Booking Booster.com, please access its websitewww.bookingbooster.com or e-mail: CEO@bookingbooster.com
For more information on ITS Magellan access its website here: www.its-magellanservices.net
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31st july 2007
orldwide New Web-based Hotel Extranet Room Allocation Tool
Booking Booster 2.01 launches 31st of July 2006
Who hasn’t used online portals like Expedia, Lastminute, or Hotels Direct to find the best hotel rates for their weekend away?
They’ve become a part of everyday life for the value-conscious consumer. Up to 85% of hotel bookings are now made via the Internet. For hoteliers, however, managing these ‘extranets’ effectively and marketing their hotel online can be a major challenge in terms of time and resources.
Peter Carlsen of BSD Europe, Brighton, aims to change this with his innovative web-based application that provides an integrated approach to hotel online marketing. Booking Booster 2.01 launches in July 2006. Its core application makes managing extranet partners fast and easy: use it to instantly upload room availability and rates, and track all bookings, online and in real time. Then compare online partners to see which offer the best revenue potential. Booking Booster’s add-on applications include a well-designed hotel website with real-time room availability, allowing clients to make direct bookings online. It’s search-engine optimised, so more potential customers visit the website. The final part of the package: an integrated Pay Per Click (PPC) web marketing campaign, with Google as partner.
Booking Booster is the first application of its kind to integrate third-party distribution and room revenue management with a hotel’s own web presence and general marketing.
Designed to give an immediate return on investment, Booking Booster is simple and intuitive to use, requiring no additional software or IT expertise. Hoteliers will be able to interact directly with the web application through the Booking Booster website, managing their entire online presence and marketing strategy, online and in real time.
Peter Carlsen, CEO and creator of Booking Booster, has over 20 years’ experience in the hotel industry and has acted as a management consultant to hotels worldwide. His awareness of the challenges and requirements of running a successful hotel business were the inspiration behind Booking Booster, and hoteliers and hotel management specialists have been involved at every stage of development and testing.
‘We’re very excited about Booking Booster. We’ve succeeded in creating an application that makes working life easier for hoteliers, taking away the pain of some tedious daily tasks, while boosting sales and profits. What we are offering has never been available before. Booking Booster is a powerful management tool, certainly, but the Booking Booster concept extends even further into areas of hotel marketing. An online presence is absolutely vital for hotels in today’s market. It is my vision to enable hotel operations to become better focused in their marketing approach and achieve significantly better results. The suite of tools we have developed enable hoteliers to do just that.’
