Fred Bean is Vice President of Hotel Business Development, Cendant Travel Distribution Services. Before Cendant, Bean worked for Travelweb. In this role, he helped Travelweb to become the largest (number of participating hotels) hotel distribution company at a record pace with more than 13,000 hotels.
Mr. Bean and his sales team are responsible for building and maintaining relationships with leading hoteliers eager to join Cendant's distribution network. Mr. Bean has also worked at Travelocity.com where he was senior manager for their merchant model vacations product. Prior to Travelocity.com, he spent six years in the hospitality technology and online distribution industry with WorldRes.com, Sabre, and Hyatt Hotels, holding positions in reservation sales, customer service, call center management, operations, product management, systems development, and sales engineering.
Speaking experience includes: American Lodging Investment Summit, Goldman Sachs Annual Conference, past HEDNA conferences, HFTP events, International Hotel Conference, The Lodging Conference, FHMA Conference, HITEC –ONHTEC, and more.
HotelPORT connects individual hotels to the GDSs and leading travel Web sites to distribute their inventory. Proven technologies through minimum costs will open the world of distribution to individual hotels making their rooms bookable all over the world. Independent hotels can enjoy the same comprehensive global distribution network and high-performance technology as their chain competitors. HotelPORT, the Hotel industry's premier Productivity Optimization Reservations Technology solution, leverages Cendant's ongoing investment in breakthrough technology and its leading role in developing industry-standards through associations such as HTNG and OTA. For additional information visit http://hospitality.cendant.com/distribution/hotelport.html.
About Cendant Travel Distribution Services | Cendant Corporation’s (NYSE: CD) Travel Distribution Services Division, is one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse collections of travel brands and distribution businesses. The division, employing nearly 9,000 people in approximately 120 countries, includes: a leading (GDS) global distribution system (Galileo), serving more than 44,000 travel agencies and over 60,000 hotels; hotel distribution and services businesses (Neat Group®, THOR®, TRUST and WizCom®); leading online travel agencies (CheapTickets®, ebookers.com®, HotelClub.com, Lodging.com, Orbitz®, and RatesToGo.com); an airline market intelligence company (Shepherd Systems); an international travel technology and software company (Travelwire); a leading international provider of long-haul air travel and travel product consolidator (Travel 2®/Travel 4®); online global corporate travel management solutions (Orbitz for Business® and Travelport®); and a leading wholesaler and global online provider of hotels, destination services, travel packages and group tours (Gullivers Travel Associates, OctopusTravel.com® and Travel Bound, Inc.). For more information visit