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Voila Hotel Rewards

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:37:10 +0000

Voila Hotel Rewards

VOILÀ Hotel Rewards is the world's first and only points-based, guest loyalty programme built specifically for a global alliance of independent hotels and small groups. VOILÀ is operated by Hospitality Marketing Concepts (HMC), a global company with offices in more than 50 countries in North America, Central/South America, Europe, Middle East and Asia.

VOILÀ, which has experienced strong growth since its initial launch in June 2008, is the first points-based frequent guest programme that unites a network of four- and five-star independent hotels and luxury hotel brands worldwide. Hotels co-brand their programmes under the VOILÀ umbrella and members earn points and redeem rewards through its network of over 170 premier properties worldwide. With its global presence, VOILÀ supports hotels and guests in nearly 100 cities and on three continents by delivering world-class service wherever members travel.

Maintaining occupancy levels and keeping a healthy ADR are among the biggest challenges facing luxury hoteliers today. By joining VOILÀ, hotels can discreetly target offers to new and existing customers without engaging in public bidding contests to attract business. The VOILÀ programme requires a very short time to launch making it a great solution for independent hotels in these difficult times.

Enrollment in the VOILÀ programme is free-of-charge and provides members the opportunity to earn valuable points for their stays that can later be redeemed for complimentary nights or room upgrades. VOILÀ members also enjoy a host of special “members-only” perks like exclusive room rates, welcome amenities, VIP access to hotel facilities and more through VOILÀ's private label-regional programmes including Husa Plus, Lucerna Rewards, Great Hotels Rewards, and Coral Hadaya.

For more information, visit www.voilahotels.com

V3

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:34:35 +0000

V3 offers "Real" solutions for tourism suppliers and distributors. No more allocations, no more rekeying bookings, no more shuffling inventory from site to site. V3 provides the only solution for efficient and effective online distribution.

Can you imagine an Airline using a Channel Manager?

Could you imagine an Airline using half baked technology which "scans an email" to manage their inventory control? How Archaic!

Do you think an Airline would hire personnel to rekey online Bookings into their own systems?
Airlines distribute inventory through thousands of Websites, using "Live" inventory provided through their core inventory systems. That's the way it should be.

V3 specialises in providing the Accommodation Industry with "Real" access to "Live" inventory.

V3 is not a Channel Manager, V3provides a true 'open booking exchange' which is unique, accurate and provides access to a suppliers' available inventory, directly from the suppliers' operating system.

The V3 technology provides simple, easy to use and maintenance free distribution for thousands of tourism suppliers worldwide.

One of V3's key initiatives is its partnership with ATDW in developing Tourism Exchange Australia. TXA offers an open booking exchange for Distributors to access available supplier inventory in real time.

TXA combines ATDW rich content with the V3 seamless booking technology that includes a secure payment process.

Suppliers and distributors benefit greatly through TXA by:

Suppliers are provided with a maintenance free platform to distribute their inventory.
Available Inventory, rates and content are automatically made available to the distributors; the supplier chooses to work with.
Confirmed reservations are automatically entered into the supplier's reservation system.
Distributors have unlimited access to suppliers available inventory, directly from the suppliers In-house reservation system.
Inventory is automatically made available to chosen distributors.
When bookings are made, remaining inventory is synchronised across all distributors eliminating the possibility of over booking.
V3 technology will support suppliers of any size, from a 1 Room, Bed and Breakfast to integration to 5 Star International Properties PMS'. The solutions are success based so suppliers are only paying for the system when it works for them.
Tours, Attractions and Events can equally be managed through V3 solution.

It's the Paradigm Shift the Australian tourism industry has been crying out for.

For more information, contact one of our expert consultants on 1300 266 582 or apply on-line through www.v3sales.com.

V3 is a Total solution and a Real solution. Free your time, free your money, free your mind.

Ubid4rooms.com

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:30:57 +0000

Ubid4rooms.com

Ubid4rooms.com is a unique new last minute accommodation website combining all the features of current last minute sites, with the addition of enabling the customer to bid directly with hotels online with same day confirmation.

Ubid4rooms.com was developed by hotel veteran Gary Berman, whose philosophy that "a vacant room is revenue lost forever" was the basis for the site . He believes that it is better for a property to accept a controlled discount than to leave a room vacant.

The concept is both time sufficient for suppliers to manage and user friendly for the consumer. It is suitable for all styles and sizes of hotels and allows properties to maximise occupancy and revenue , by giving total flexibility to manage rooms and rates.

All the bids received are one off and confidential offers, so hotel rates will not be diluted, and any contracted or lowest rate guarantees that properties may have will not be affected.

The Ubid4rooms.com site enables hotels to post rates on the system for a limited (28 day) period and the consumer can either buy immediately at the advertised rate, or make an offer direct to the hotel. Minimum rates are built into the system to prevent "time wasting" bids and the property receives the bid by email and has three hours to reply.

The facility to bid on multiple rooms has recently been added, making it ideal for family groups, and the corporate and conference market. Ubid4rooms.com is also now linked with most of the major channel managers.

Feedback from suppliers to Ubid4rooms.com has been extremely positive. Due to many contracted rate agreements in the market, it has been difficult in the past for properties to sell at lower rates due to ramifications it could have for their larger suppliers.

With Ubid4rooms.com, hotels can effectively maximize occupancy by selling rooms at rates they cannot openly publish.

Once a bid is accepted on the site, both consumer and supplier know that this is a one off deal, which might never be repeated (there is a disclaimer on the confirmation slip acknowledging this).
www.Ubid4rooms.com

Travelzoo Australia

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:27:48 +0000

Travelzoo, a global Internet media company, publish the weekly Top 20™ newsletter which is a definitive list of the very best travel deals on the web. Travelzoo Australia launched in February 2008 and already has over 400,000 Australian subscribers. Globally, the Top 20 publication reaches more than 20 million subscribers.

The Top 20 newsletter includes the best-value deals across a range of travel categories including flights, hotels, holiday packages, cruises, transport and activities in Australia and around the world.

Travelzoo’s deal experts use their local expertise and global connections to find and evaluate deals from hundreds of sources. Each deal is rigourously tested to ensure every one offers extraordinary value and is easy to book.

Travelzoo has 21 offices across North America, Europe & Asia Pacific.

Travelzoo Quick Facts

Travelzoo is the largest and most trusted publisher of travel deals in the world.
Travelzoo is not a booking engine or travel agent and can therefore be relied upon to recommend only the best deals.
No amount of advertising dollars guarantees inclusion in the Top 20.
The Travelzoo Top 20 inspires consumers to travel more frequently by delivering them travel deals they would have otherwise spent hours trying to find or only stumbled upon by accident.
Subscription to Travelzoo is free.

For Advertisers

Travelzoo provides airlines, hotels, cruise lines and other travel providers with a channel to advertise sales and specials to a highly qualified, closed user group.
Travelzoo subscribers are high income, frequent leisure travellers who respond quickly to deals.
Travelzoo works with advertisers to develop deals that will appeal to subscribers. This ensures advertising dollars deliver a return on investment.
Travelzoo drive leads directly to travel providers and does not take commission on bookings.
Travelzoo has proven results across all travel segments and product categories.

TravelCLICK

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:22:15 +0000

TravelCLICK

TravelCLICK, the leader in hotel ecommerce solutions, provides a continuous flow of high-value online bookings to hotels worldwide. A uniquely comprehensive one-stop solution, TravelCLICK offers market intelligence, distribution, electronic marketing, and media services delivered with personal attention and local market expertise. We help our clients make better business decisions, generate greater demand from the right mix of channels, and convert more shoppers to high-value guests.

Unparallelled Hotel Market Intelligence Solutions
Evaluate opportunities and outsmart the competition
Compare historical and projected performance, rates, occupancy and availability for your hotel against the rest of the local market. TravelCLICK's market intelligence solutions enable you to execute rate and inventory strategies and marketing initiatives that will directly impact your bottom line.

Demand Driving Marketing Solutions
Increase visibility and drive demand more effectively.
TravelCLICK develops customized, integrated marketing plans for hotels using a combination of Internet and global distribution system (GDS) media to drive incremental demand for your property. Search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click (PPC) advertising help maximize direct-to-web bookings through our award-winning websites.

Superior Online Hotel Merchandising
Convert shoppers and maximize revenue per stay.
Together, TravelCLICK's iHotelier® Central Reservation System and our robust content management system deliver the industry's best hotel merchandising platform. iHotelier improves conversion and revenue per stay, drives incremental revenues from the sale of value-added products, captures important client information, manages email communications with your guests and helps you manage relationships with your most important customers. Our award-winning booking engine, iStayTM, enables you to further up sell shoppers on room types and amenities.

Serving the hospitality industry since 1999, TravelCLICK has more than 13,000 customers in 140 countries with offices in Barcelona, Chicago, Dubai, Houston, Phoenix, Melbourne, Shanghai, and Tokyo. For more information on TravelCLICK and its award-winning hotel ecommerce solutions, visit www.travelclick.net or email info@travelclick.net .

SiteMinder

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:16:36 +0000

SiteMinder

SiteMinder is Australasia's trusted name in Channel Management for your online booking websites.

SiteMinder provides you with a simple, fast, user-friendly and cost effective system that allows properties to manage their online inventory more effectively, which in turn results in more online bookings and a significant difference to your bottom-line and profitability.

With SiteMinder you can easily manage the widest selection of high yielding local and international booking sites from ONE simple webpage.

SiteMinder clients enjoy a dramatic increase in revenue from online bookings, while reducing effort and overbookings risk. This is because SiteMinder automatically adjusts your availability when you receive reservations from ANY booking site connected to your SiteMinder account.

Now, with the addition of the TheBookingButton, the new generation booking engine for your OWN website, you can control all online inventory effortlessly. TheBookingButton system is simple, functional and visually appealing to the consumer. It is exceptionally easy to set up and use, and is taking the market by storm! TheBookingButton is proven to convert more website visitors to confirmed bookings – meaning commission-free direct revenue and a more profitable bottom-line.

SiteMinder caters for any size property, from small Bed and Breakfasts to large multi-national hotel complexes. We also provide our SiteMinder services to many property groups such as Constellation, Rydges, Staywell and many more. With NO additional commissions, NO lock-in contracts, LOW monthly fees and top quality service, our value offering is unrivalled in the market today.

Find out why our clients have the SiteMinder advantage. Visit www.siteminder.com.au to experience SiteMinder and TheBookingButton with an obligation-free trial, and let us bring you a world of online bookings!

For more information, contact our friendly team on 1300 736 198 (+61 2 9221 4444) or email enquiries@siteminder.com.au

Realholidays.com.au

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:13:43 +0000

realholidays.com.au

With more than 21,000 holiday rental listings, realholidays.com.au is one of Australia's largest holiday rental websites.

realholidays.com.au offers all holiday rental and accommodation providers the opportunity to promote their properties to thousands of holiday makers each month.

Since its launch in 2007, realholidays.com.au has become one of Australia's most popular holiday rental listings websites, providing a comprehensive guide to holiday accommodation across Australia.

The recent success of the Win a Real Escape Campaign, whereisnudedude.com.au and the Are We There Yet? promotions have led to increased traffic and visibility for realholidays.com.au, which achieved 278,204 domestic unique browsers during the month of January 2009. realholidays.com.au has a strong international following, particularly in the US, Canada, UK and New Zealand.

realholidays.com.au is closely aligned with leading industry partner Oodles.com who provide budget car hire to holiday makers, through the site.

With no booking commission fee charged to advertisers, realholidays.com.au ensures there is a strong return on investment to help cultivate business opportunities for those working in the holiday accommodation sector.

realholidays.com.au has a dedicated editorial team who this year launched an exciting e-newsletter that regularly promotes topical holiday accommodation destinations to its 35,000 strong member database.

The realholidays.com.au brand is operated by the REA group and along with realestate.com.au and realcommercial.com.au is one of six websites the company operates nationally. In January 2009 realestate.com.au achieved record traffic in excess of 4.8 million unique browsers.

The business unit is managed by Tina Seirlis who joined the REA Group in Oct 2003. www.realholidays.com.au

Quest Serviced Apartments

admin — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:09:55 +0000

Quest Serviced Apartments

It’s taken 20 years to become an overnight success. Now, Quest proudly boasts the largest network of serviced apartments in Australasia.

When Quest was founded, it introduced an accommodation alternative that changed the travel industry: the stylish, roomy and well appointed serviced apartment.

Quest can now be found in major cities, large regional centers and rural areas. Quest makes it its business to be where the corporate sector travels, and this includes a growing network of expanding regional areas.

Quest’s focus on regional development is testament to the company’s ethos of providing accommodation in those areas where there is a shortage or a lack of modern properties to service the unique and changing needs of the extended stay corporate traveller, coupled with the preparedness to develop properties in emerging business related locations.

In fact, we’ve made it our mission to be where corporate travellers need to be.

Today, Quest has an impressive network of more than 120 Serviced Apartment properties across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. Each property is designed to offer a business class experience at rates that represent outstanding value for money. www.questapartments.com.au

NO VACANCY 2009 – SPEAKERS, PROGRAM ANNOUNCED

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:54:05 +0000

A POWERFUL speaking line-up was today announced for No Vacancy – Australia's leading accommodation industry conference, which is being held in Sydney on March 19, 2009.

No Vacancy features a provocative, relevant program packed with industry leaders, panels, case studies, presentations and debate. The central themes are Inspiration, Distribution and Innovation.

One of the highlights is an interview with Robbie Cooke, CEO of Wotif.com, which last financial year sold almost five million room nights and now claims 41% of Australia's online accommodation market.

There's a focus on distribution and marketing strategies while the spotlight also is thrown on the budget hotel sector market, new online entrants, pricing and revenue management and the challenges ahead.

No Vacancy also takes a step back from pure profit to hear from Ronni Kahn, founder of Oz Harvest, a charity which "rescues" and recycles food that would otherwise be discarded by the accommodation industry. Confirmed speakers include:

Rachel Argaman, CEO Toga Hospitality
Paul Constantinou, Chairman, Quest Serviced Apartments
Robbie Cooke, CEO, Wotif.com
Grant Colquhoun, Director of Hotels – Asia Pacific, Travelocity
Len Cordiner, CEO, whl.travel
Adrian Currie, MD Australia NZ, Booking.com, Chairman of Agoda.com
Dean Dransfield, MD, Dransfield Hotels & Resorts
Alan Featherby, CEO, Rendezvous Hotels and Resorts International
Paul Fischmann, CEO, Eight Hotels
Ryan Flanagan, Associate Director – eComerce, Marriott International
Sebastian Fontanarossa, Director of Strategic Marketing –Pacific, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts International Operations
Gabi Kool, Managing Director, Voila Hotel Rewards
Ronni Kahn, Founding Director, OzHarvest
Nick McCaw, Director, Hotel SO
Ken Minnikin, Director of Marketing, Stella Hospitality Group
Cyril Ranque, VP Partner Services Group, Asia-Pacific, Expedia
Maria Taylor, Vice President Distribution, Accor Asia Pacific
Adrian Williams, General Manager, Formule 1Hotels Australia
Michael Walmsley, General Manager, Hitwise
Jon Wild, Global Marketing Director, HotelClub.com

Over the past two years No Vacancy has established a strong reputation for dynamic programming and great networking – almost 240 delegates attended the 2008 event.

No Vacancy is produced by Travel Trends, which also owns the successful TRAVELtech and Search Engine Room conferences, plus the popular Travel Trends newsletter and website – www.traveltrends.biz.

If you have any questions, please call Martin Kelly on (02) 9882-1575.

TRAVELtech 2008 – SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED, BOOKINGS OPEN

admin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:50:57 +0000

BOOKINGS are now open for TRAVELtech in Sydney on August 26, Australia’s leading online travel marketing, distribution and technology conference.

This year’s theme is the open-ended Year of Living Dangerously? It can be taken a couple of ways … the obvious: oil, inflation, interest rates and marketing costs up, major challenges ahead.

But it’s also a question and the good news is there’s increasing evidence the online channel may be the place consumers turn at times like these.

The program is packed with great speakers from Australia and the United States, relevant topics, and fresh marketing techniques to inspire and guide delegates through the year ahead.

There’ll also be excellent networking – more than 300 delegates attended in 2007 – plus the usual detailed industry analysis of online travel trends.

It’s also extremely affordable with Early Bird admission costing $449 + gst up to July 11, 2008. Program information and bookings through www.traveltrends.biz.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Malcolm Auld, Principal, Malcolm Auld Direct
Scott Blume, President Travelocity Asia Pacific
James Cassidy, General Manager Travel, Fairfax Digital
Clementina Clive-Ponsonby-Fane, Head of Travel, Health and Lifestyle, ninemsn
Mark Frawley, Managing Director, Roamfree Group
Chris Guzowski, Managing Director, Travel Apps
Brad Gurrie, General Manager, Travelzoo
Claire Hatton, Head of Travel, Google
Tim Harcourt, Chief Economist, Austrade
Arthur Hoffman, Managing Director, Expedia – APAC
Martin Kelly, Director, Travel Trends
Sue Klose, Director of Corporate Development, News Digital Media
Gordon Locke, VP Airline Marketing & Strategy, Sabre Airline Solutions
Simon Monk, Chief Executive Officer, World Nomads
Richard Noon, Chief Executive Officer, Webjet
Dan Russell, Director, Cleancruising.com
Darin Walters, Managing Director, Jetabroad.com
Michael Walmsley, GM – Competitive Intelligence and Search Marketing, Hitwise

FURTHER INFORMATION:
Martin Kelly – (02) 9882-1575 or mjk@iform.com.au