"The GDSs represent an incredibly valuable and continued important area for the hospitality industry enabling thousands of travel agents and hundreds of online travel sites reservations access to HubX' growing inventory of hotel customers," said Mike Murray, President and CEO of HubX, Inc. "The HubX and WizCom connection enables us to offer customers the most reliable and highest level of GDS connectivity currently available."
WizCom's Seamless Connectivity provides the worldwide network of 400,000 travel agents, airline reservations agents and consumers via GDS-powered Internet booking sites the ability to dynamically receive rate quotes and confirmation numbers to instantly book their reservations for HubX' hotel clients. Using WizCom's state-of-the-art Seamless connectivity, HubX' customers' inventory is immediately accessed via their own central reservation system.
"As a travel technology company with innovative Internet solutions for the hospitality industry, WizCom is pleased to work with HubX to broaden their customers' distribution reach via our wide array of proven and growing travel distribution options," said Glenn Fernandez, WizCom Director of Business Development. "WizCom is pleased and honored that HubX has chosen WizCom as a principal partner as they move forward with growing their business. We are delighted to count them as part of our growing customer base recognizing our distribution value and unyielding commitment to our customers' business success."
WizCom International, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cendant Corporation
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and a principal part of Cendant's Travel Distribution Division, is a leading global provider of electronic reservations processing and information management systems for the travel industry. WizCom provides its hotel, car rental, and tour / leisure travel customers with innovative, flexible and cost-effective electronic distribution and e-commerce solutions for the Internet, GDS and / or other travel reservation systems. Established in 1987, WizCom has an extensive customer base with more than 115 hotel and car rental companies operating in more than forty countries worldwide.
HubX is a leading provider of Internet business services to the Hospitality industry. Located in Newton Massachusetts, with services in global data centers, HubX delivers advanced capabilities to lodging organizations worldwide. Services include a world-class reservation booking engine, as well as a suite of Web site and information packages designed exclusively for individual lodging properties and property management groups.