Travelport Debuts New Hotel Booking Engine for Travel Agents

Travelport Debuts New Hotel Booking Engine for Travel Agents

Travelport said next month it is introducing Travelport Rooms and More, a new hotel booking engine for travel agents. The new booking engine is designed to be a one-stop hotel shop for travel agents, and will be available to all travel agencies worldwide, even those who do not use the Travelport GDS platform.

The development of Travelport Rooms and More, which Travelport calls a key part of its ongoing drive to enhance its hospitality offering, allows travel agents to book a greater choice of commissionable accommodations. Recent Euromonitor estimates predict that the value of global hotel bookings will reach $545 billion in 2015, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of 5.9 percent between 2010 and 2015.

Travelport Rooms and More, which will begin a phased rollout in July, combines the consumer insights, metasearch functionality and user interface developed by Sprice.com, which was acquired by Travelport in May 2010, with Travelport’s core B2B expertise, to deliver an integrated hotel booking platform. Key benefits for users include comparison shopping across multiple providers and the ability to both book and cancel hotel bookings in the same tool.

Travelport’s hospitality team also has signed new agreements with more than 20 hotel aggregators and online travel agencies, including bedsonline.com, Transhotel.com, LateRooms.com and lowcostbeds.com. In total, more than 200,000 hotel properties will be available to book, often with multiple options available on the same property, giving travel agents complete transparency and the opportunity to select their preferred provider.  

Travelport Rooms and More also will include hotel reviews and images as well as rental car content provided by TUI Cars. The announcement of the new hotel booking tool follows a number of other recent announcements from Travelport related to its ongoing investment in hospitality, including news of a larger, dedicated hospitality team and new helpdesks for hotel and car supplier customers.