Bonsaï Hotels selects OPTIMS' Electronic reservation and distribution solutions

Bonsaï Hotels has selected :

• Otedis.Call Center, the electronic central reservation system.
• Otedis.WebRes, the real time / online booking engine integrated in Bonsaï Hotels' own web site.
• Otedis.Switch, the electronic distribution of hotel rooms on the Internet.

"The fact that Optims/Otedis solution includes e-reservation and e-distribution tools has been particularly important in our choice, explains Denis Sire, Bonsaï Hotels' General Manager. We were searching for a complete and efficient technology for our 23 properties". "We are delighted with this new signature, explains Pierre Matuchet, Otedis CEO. Optims, through its subsidiary Otedis, provides the hospitality industry players with e-business IT solutions that really suit their needs. Moreover, our products are dedicated to independent properties, but also to hotel chains or groups or Tourism offices".

With Optims/Otedis electronic distribution and reservation solutions, Bonsaï Hotels now provides its 23 hotels, through a unique inventory, with a real time distribution of their rooms through the Group's web site, its central reservation office and through numerous e-distribution channels.

The central reservation office of the hotel chain will have a real time vision of the availability and rates of all the hotels.

Clients will instantaneously book, through very simple tools and via various channels:

• The Bonsaï Hotels' own web site, .
• E-travel web sites, including the portal .
• Travel agencies using ADS.
• Directly through the hotel chain's call center..

About Bonsaï Hotels - Founded in 1989, Bonsaï Hotels is composed of 23 properties based throughout France. From economic to two stars hotels, Bonsaï Hotels meets the different requests of its clientele, with three categories of hotels. The first one is "Bonsaï Escale", that offers comfortable hotel rooms with very attractive rates. "Bonsaï Etape", a category of one star hotels, and the two stars "Bonsaï Relais". One of the particularity of Bonsaï Hotels is to provide, in all its properties, with family suites. Hotel rooms can communicate in order to be rent separatly or together. They can welcome a total amount of 5 persons (Etape) or 6 persons (Escale). Bonsaï Hotels always take care to provide its clientele with the best service at the best rate. Four new properties will open soon : two hotels in Toulon before the end of the month, two in Fréjus in the first months of 2004. More information about Bonsaï Hotels is available at

About Optims - Optims develops and implements Information Technology solutions dedicated to optimising management methods and revenues. For the past decade, Optims has been serving the hospitality, tourism, catering, transport and travel industries with three complementary technologies. These include Property Management Systems (PMS), Yield Management Solutions, known as Revenue Management Systems and Central Reservation Systems (CRS). Otedis, the Optims' subsidiary dedicated to e-business for the Hospitality industry, is in charge of the CRS offer. This solution is made of three products : Otedis.Webres, Otedis.Call Center and Otedis.Switch. Optims is now the leading European developer of IT solutions for the Hospitality industry. The Company has over 5,500 customers in more than 70 countries. Optims issued its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Nouveau Marché in the Paris Stock Exchange in June 2000 (SICOVAM code: 7652). More information about Optims is available at www.optims.com.

FOR ANY FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT :
Bonsaï Hotels
Marie Laure Delon
52, rue Dagueys, Zone Industrielle « La Ballastière », 33500 Libourne
Phone : + 33 (0) 5 57 25 59 00 - Fax : + 33 (0) 5 57 25 26 59
E-mail : [email protected].