Hotel.de Selects Leonardo For Rich Media Content
Leonardo Media, the largest provider of Rich Media Content to the GDS and online travel channels has announced it has signed a distribution agreement with hotel.de AG – parent company to TravelRes in the UK.
Under the agreement, Leonardo will provide hotel.de with a customized delivery of static image content for more than 65,000 hotels.
David Elton, Leonardo chief executive officer, welcomed hotel.de as a distribution partner. Commenting on the agreement, he said, “Visual content is now crucial for online hotel distribution and by broadening our network and range of Web-based channels, and including a major partner like hotel.de, Leonardo ensures that the hotel companies it serves – over 155 top global hospitality Brands are reaching the most consumers possible with high quality visual representation – all of which ensures growth in bookings and revenue.”
Reinhard Wick, Chief Sales Officer of hotel.de AG is pleased with this co-operation: “With Leonardo we managed to acquire one of the most renowned suppliers for high-quality digital content in the travel industry. Naturally our customers expect meaningful pictures when selecting a hotel. By directly accessing Leonardo’s central database, we are now in the position to meet this desire even better. The interface to Leonardo means a considerable added value to us as well as to our booking customers. “
Leonardo are innovators in travel content management, emarketing and distribution across the global travel chain. Leonardo’s solutions are designed to simplify the management and optimization of rich media content and provide a one stop shop for the GDS and travel channels to receive the latest and up-to-date digital content (static and moving image content, videos and eBooks) in the formats that they require.
Leonardo manages rich media content for over 65,000 hotels and has contracts in place with 155 global hotel brands, including Carlson, Destination Hotels & Resorts, InterContinental Hotels Group, Kersner International, Leading Hotels of the World, Luxe, Nikko, Peninsula, Preferred Hotel Group, Raffles/Swissotel, Resort Quest, Rosewood, Small Luxury Hotels, Starwood, and Worldhotels. Leonardo works with more than 80 Tourist Boards, including Singapore, Portugal, The Hague, and Antigua and Barbuda. Its major travel channel partners include Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre, Pegasus and Worldspan and Worldres along with travel sites such as Kayak, Sidestep, Orbitz, Yahoo! and NorthStar Travel Media. Additional information about Leonardo can be found at
hotel.de AG, based in Hamm and Nuremberg, Germany, London, UK, Paris, France and Barcelona, Spain runs a free of charge hotel reservation service for companies and private users on www.hotel.de, www.travelres.com, www.hotel.at and www.hotel.ch. hotel.de/TravelRes offers 210,000 hotels worldwide to be booked online. In 2007, hotel.de has enlarged its business model - focussing on the placing of hotel stays - by the fast-growing segment of procuring conference hotels for corporate clients. Compared to other booking channels, hotel.de/TravelRes customers benefit from considerable cost savings. These partially result from the very low hotel rates which hotel.de/TravelRes is able to negotiate with hotels, thanks to its high booking volume. Additionally, hotel.de/TravelRes always displays all rates available for every single hotel (e.g. promotional rates, corporate or weekend rates), so that the customer can choose the lowest or best-fitting rate. Another major advantage of hotel.de/TravelRes is the fact that booking confirmations are sent right into the hotel's computer - making a reservation fast, safe and reliable. This is enabled by hotel.de/TravelRes' unique integration of the hotels' central reservation systems (so-called CRS) under one consistent user surface. Well-known companies, such as Wella AG (subsidiary of Procter & Gamble), SAP AG, ThyssenKrupp AG, degussa AG, Logica CMG GmbH, Ernst & Young AG, Wal-Mart, Texas Instruments Inc., Deutsche Börse Group, Munich Re Group and others already use the hotel.de/TravelRes corporate application.