Mercators's award-winning innovation solution interfaces with booking.com |
12.06.2008
| from The International Airline of the United Arab Emirates
12.06.2008, Mercator, the aviation and hospitality industry’s leading IT solutions supplier, has recently created an XML interface with Booking.com, Europe’s leading online hotel reservations company (part of priceline.com Nasdaq PCLN). This positioning has allowed DaeX (Destination Accommodation Exchange), Mercator’s revolutionary, global, real-time interface solution system, to be certified with Booking.com.
This means global hotel chains interfaced with DaeX can now receive their reservations from Booking.com directly into their Central Reservation System (CRS) or Property Management System (PMS) 24 hours a day. This will eliminate the process of receiving reservations by fax or email which is a manual process within any hotel reservation department today.
The Arabian Park Hotel was the first hotel in the Middle East to go live using the interface between Booking.com and DaeX.
The award-winning DaeX represents an internationally patented world-first for the hospitality and travel trade industries through its capacity to channel and manage contracted allocations and third party websites 24 hours a day via the internet.
DaeX is a B2B web service which interfaces tour operators and third party websites seamlessly to a CRS or PMS, unlike other systems which require continual updates. As a result, DaeX can afford tour operators and online travel agents (OTAs) the ability to give their customers real-time information on hotel rooms, on which they can base their purchasing decision.
Robert Kane, Mercator’s Product Strategy Manager, said: “This is a great association for Mercator, as we are currently forging ahead with our hospitality solution DaeX. We are delighted to be working with Booking.com and we look forward to supporting their commitment to providing ease of booking to all of their customers.”
Booking.com offers over 45,000 hotels in more than 10,000 destinations and attracts over 20 million unique visitors each month from both leisure and business markets worldwide. Between March ’07 and March ’08, 21.6 million room nights were booked, which equals a growth of 78% year on year.
Sabrina Costermans, Area Manager, Booking.com Middle East said: “Since setting up our local presence in Dubai, we have been able to establish partnerships with over 350 hotels in the Middle East. We believe that the cooperation with Mercator is a great opportunity to optimise revenues for our existing hotel partnerships and increase our presence in this exciting market."
She added: “We have worked closely together with Mercator to integrate this solution and we are extremely pleased to count them as one of our XML interface partners.
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The Arabian Park Hotel was the first hotel in the Middle East to go live using the interface between Booking.com and DaeX.
The award-winning DaeX represents an internationally patented world-first for the hospitality and travel trade industries through its capacity to channel and manage contracted allocations and third party websites 24 hours a day via the internet.
DaeX is a B2B web service which interfaces tour operators and third party websites seamlessly to a CRS or PMS, unlike other systems which require continual updates. As a result, DaeX can afford tour operators and online travel agents (OTAs) the ability to give their customers real-time information on hotel rooms, on which they can base their purchasing decision.
Robert Kane, Mercator’s Product Strategy Manager, said: “This is a great association for Mercator, as we are currently forging ahead with our hospitality solution DaeX. We are delighted to be working with Booking.com and we look forward to supporting their commitment to providing ease of booking to all of their customers.”
Booking.com offers over 45,000 hotels in more than 10,000 destinations and attracts over 20 million unique visitors each month from both leisure and business markets worldwide. Between March ’07 and March ’08, 21.6 million room nights were booked, which equals a growth of 78% year on year.
Sabrina Costermans, Area Manager, Booking.com Middle East said: “Since setting up our local presence in Dubai, we have been able to establish partnerships with over 350 hotels in the Middle East. We believe that the cooperation with Mercator is a great opportunity to optimise revenues for our existing hotel partnerships and increase our presence in this exciting market."
She added: “We have worked closely together with Mercator to integrate this solution and we are extremely pleased to count them as one of our XML interface partners.
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