SITEMINDER NEWS

The world’s third biggest hotel – First World – is one of a family of large hotels and resorts in Malaysia that have signed with international online distributor, SiteMinder, to expand their booking presence on the web.

Evolving software, increased competition and ever increasing levels of online bookings are prompting hotels to beef up their online distribution and streamline business processes, according to leading online distribution company, SiteMinder. Three sister hotels in South Africa are the latest to fully automate their online strategy, achieving complete integration between their Channel Manager, Revenue Management System and Property Management System.

SiteMinder – a leading technology provider that allows hotels to automate distribution of rooms to online booking channels – has been named as one of Australia’s fastest-growing technology companies in the prestigious ‘Deloitte Technology Fast 50’ awards for 2011.

SiteMinder today announced the highly anticipated release of its next generation state-of-the-art distribution platform to the global hotel industry. Being unveiled at World Travel Market in London this week, the new platform is set to challenge conventional thinking in automated distribution of hotel rooms to leading booking channels.

A major booking platform for low-cost accommodation – budgetplaces.com – has partnered with online hotel distributor, SiteMinder, to connect hotels around the world especially in Europe, where budgetplaces.com is a prime source for people seeking affordable beds.

One of the world’s major providers of hotel software, protel, has partnered with online distribution company, SiteMinder, to offer two-way streamlined distribution solutions for thousands of international hotels.
More than 6000 hotels around the world use Property Management System (PMS) and Central Reservation System (CRS) products developed by German-based protel.

Hyatt’s seven luxury hotels in Australia have partnered with SiteMinder to distribute their rooms to online booking sites around the world.

A chain of nine hotels in Iceland has signed with international online distributor, SiteMinder, to broaden their web distribution amid predictions by SiteMinder that the proportion of hotels in Europe using channel management will double over the next two years.

SiteMinder has made its direct reservation product, ‘TheBookingButton’, available on Facebook, allowing hotels to sell rooms directly on their own Facebook page.
The new Facebook application is free for SiteMinder customers and helps hotels generate tangible revenue from their Facebook page.

IDeaS Revenue Solutions, the leading provider of pricing and revenue management software, services and consulting, and SiteMinder, an award winning distribution company, announced today the complete certified integration of SiteMinder’s Channel Manager and the IDeaS Revenue Management System (RMS)