Best Day Travel Group signs with SiteMinder, strengthens offering to hotels
Best Day Travel Group, one of the leading companies focused on the tourism sector in Latin America, today announces it has signed a connectivity agreement with SiteMinder, the global hotel industry's leading cloud platform. The strategic partnership provides Best Day Travel Group's hotel clients greater reach and growth within international markets, with real-time delivery of reservations for hotels to meet the needs of the dynamic online booking market.
The partnership also forms part of Best Day Travel Group's strategy to enhance its leadership within Latin America and support its growth globally, by strengthening its offering to hotels.
"We love working with SiteMinder because of the opportunity to further expand our global presence. SiteMinder's platform allows us to connect our hotel partners to a worldwide network in a dynamic way, which means the benefit of more reservations and revenue as well as enhanced options for our hotel clients across Best Day Travel Group's different lines of business," says Rafael Durand, COO & Head of Global Product of Best Day Travel Group.
Rubi Perez, Director – LATAM at SiteMinder, says, "The alliance between Best Day Travel Group and SiteMinder makes it easy to bring more travelers to the beautiful destinations that Latin America offers, and to experience the world-class accommodation provided by the region's hotels. It also represents the strength of the two brands in being able to bring the world to Latin America, and Latin America to the world through BestDay.com."
Travelers have used BestDay.com for nearly three decades to search for more than 18,000 of the best hotel, flight, tour, package and car rental deals across Latin America. The website complements Best Day Travel Group's vast network of trusted travel agents and wholesalers.
Today's partnership between Best Day Travel Group and SiteMinder follows close collaborations during the 42nd Tianguis Turístico trade fair in Mexico and the 5th World Travel Market Latin America conference in Brazil.
About Best Day Travel Group
Best Day Travel Group is the most important tourist company in Mexico and one of the most important in Latin America. Founded in Mexico in 1984, it now has offices in nine countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, US, Uruguay, Mexico, Peru and the Dominican Republic). It is known for its technological innovations, personalized services and its passion for travel, giving customers the best day of their trip. Best Day Travel Group offers its clients more than 180,000 hotels worldwide, access to affordable and traditional airlines, and a wide variety of tourist services that are distributed throughout its six lines of business: BestDay.com (online travel agency), BD TRAVEL Solution (white label technology for partners), HotelDO (B2B services for traditional travel agencies and wholesalers), BD Travel (receptive travel agency services and DMC in Cancun, Riviera Maya, Puerto Vallarta and Los Cabos and soon in Punta Cana, Orlando and Cuba), NRG, which focuses on the youth market, and Gran Plan, a strategic alliance with AeroMexico tourism package sales.
More information can be found at: prensa.BestDay.com.mx, the BestDay Travel Blog and BestDay.com.
About SiteMinder
SiteMinder Limited (ASX:SDR) is the name behind SiteMinder, the only software platform that unlocks the full revenue potential of hotels, and Little Hotelier, an all-in-one hotel management software that makes the lives of small accommodation providers easier. The global company is headquartered in Sydney with offices in Bangalore, Bangkok, Barcelona, Berlin, Dallas, Galway, London and Manila. Through its technology and the largest partner ecosystem in the global hotel industry, SiteMinder generates more than 115 million reservations worth over US$45 billion in revenue for its hotel customers each year. For more information, visit siteminder.com.
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Director of Brand Communications & PR
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