Something new and exciting is rolling out in July, 2011 for travel agents. The name is Travelport Rooms and More?, and it is a hotel booking engine exclusive for travel agents.
Rooms and More from the GDS provider, Travelport, will allow agents to book hotel, bed and breakfasts, and other accommodations through one web source with one log in. Aggregators such as Lowcostbeds and Laterooms.com will be available to agents to compare rates for clients.
If the new booking engine is as good as it sounds, this may be a great boost for travel agents. Sometimes it is hard for agents to uphold credibility of getting the best rooms and prices for their customers, with so many online hotel resources available to the public.
It will be important that clients can now have more confidence that their agent will find the best accommodations for them, thus hopefully bring in more customers for the travel agent.
Rooms and more will pay agent commission from Travelport, instead of agents receiving commissions from individual hotel companies. This may be simpler in the long run, but should we wonder if the commissions will be the same, better, or less than what is received now?
As an agent, I am excited to see this new product. It is good to know that an agent can be confident they are offering customers the best available property and price. It should save a lot of time looking and logging onto one website to search properties, rather than logging into several sites to search deals and descriptions.
What are your thoughts about the new hotel booking engine? Has any agents tried it yet?
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