FastBooking to interface its channel management solution with UniTravel, Initalia.it and hotel.de/hotel.info

FastBooking Updater simplifies the complex and time consuming process of updating rates and inventory on numerous third party distribution websites. Allowing the hoteliers to update up to 20 channels simultaneously, FastBooking Updater saves considerable time, reduces manual loading errors while guaranteeing consistent prices across channels.

These interfaces enhance the communication performance between FastBooking Updater and its partner’s systems and allow hoteliers to directly manage all the extranets functionalities through the Updater. They are part of a gobal partnership program initialised by FastBooking with the world largest distribution portals. « FastBooking’s mission is to provide hoteliers with innovating solutions that serve, in the simplest possible way, their daily work and productivity. The ability to easily update their numerous sales channels is vital to guarantee their marketing efficiency and profitability. We are delighted about these partnerships with key players in hotel distribution, that will optimise our client’s channel management process» says Soraya Kefs, Chief Operating Officer of FastBooking.

« UniTravel provides internet users with access to a large selection of hotels at highly competitive prices in more than 600 destinations worldwide. We strive to help hoteliers work faster and improve reactivity in updating their data so as to offer real-time availability and best possible prices at all time. FastBooking Updater indubitably facilitates this exercise. " says Samuel Scotton, Director of Sales of UniTravel/GHRS.

New features and functionalities keep being added to FastBooking Updater for more flexibility. Hoteliers can now choose the channels they want to update through the Updater from a list of 100 available websites instead of 50 as previously.

About UniTravel
UniTravel is one of the leading company in the on line reservation market, providing cutting edge solutions for the hotel distribution worldwide. Established in 1999, it stands out in the travel industry offering property managers a wide portfolio of distribution channels. 16,000 properties in more then 600 destinations worldwide, direct connection with GDS, hotel CRSs and switches make the company the right partner for independent property, hotel chains, travel agency and TO. Discover more about UniTravel on: www.unitravel.com
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About InItalia Srl
InItalia Srl (www.initalia.it ), owner of the website Initalia.it, has been in the business of hotel reservations since 1997 and currently represents over 2500 different hotels, residences, bed & breakfast hotels and farm holidays throughout Italy. InItalia Srl began with the goal of providing an extremely useful service to both hotel operators and tourists by implementing emerging online technology to facilitate contact between both parties to their mutual benefit.

About Hotel.de
hotel.de AG with its international brand hotel.info runs a free of charge hotel reservation service for companies and private users on www.hotel.de and www.hotel.info. The company offers 210,000 hotels worldwide to be booked online. Since January 2007, hotel.de has also been offering conferences. Compared to other booking channels, customers benefit from considerable cost savings (on average 40% for business customers). Additionally, all available rates for every single hotel are always displayed, so that the customer can choose the lowest or best-fitting rate. Further, all bookings via hotel.de 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 Procter & Gamble, SAP AG, Texas Instruments Inc. And Ernst & Young AG already use the hotel.de/TravelRes corporate application.

About FastBooking
FastBooking is a leading provider of advanced Internet booking systems and E-marketing services for the hospitality industry. FastBooking’s solutions help independent and chain hotels worldwide increase their revenue on the Internet and maximize their distribution strategy while simplifying the management of rates and availabilities across multiple channels. A whole global program is available to hoteliers including a multilingual Internet Booking Engine with advanced property merchandising facilities, GDS/IDS representation, e-marketing tools and a network of exclusive hotel distribution websites (fastbooking.com, hotels-paris.fr , only-recommended-hotels.com …) and partners. Headquartered in Paris with subsidiaries in Italy, USA, Canada, Asia and India, the company has 3i Group plc and E. de Rothschild as anchor investors. It employs 130 persons worldwide and has gained the trust of 4 200 customers. For more information, please visit www.fastbooking.net