SiteMinder News

Exclusive Booking Site, Tablet Hotels, Connects to SiteMinder’s Distribution Platform Hotels that rate themselves as amongst the ‘most extraordinary in the world’ can now use SiteMinder’s distribution platform to sell their rooms on the exclusive online booking site, Tablet Hotels, which specialises in properties with ‘personality’. Promising ‘a cure for boring travel’ and an antidote [...]

Leading online hotel distribution switch, SiteMinder, is accelerating its global rollout, following an investment of more than $5 million by Bailador Investment Management. The funds from Bailador, which specialises in the provision of expansion capital for information technology companies, will assist SiteMinder in further accelerating growth in Europe, Asia and the Americas, with new products [...]

One of the world’s most prestigious hotel brands, Rocco Forte Hotels, has chosen leading CRS distribution platform, SiteMinder, to power its online distribution through seamless integration of the group CRS and Revenue Management Systems to the world’s leading online booking sites. The move will streamline the rate and availability distribution process for Rocco Forte’s 13 [...]

As accommodation providers worldwide cut costs to protect thinning margins in a challenging market, one hotel chain in Asia has slashed more than 50 per cent off its costs through commission savings in less than two years after partnering with online distributor, SiteMinder. Malaysia’s premium-rated Avillion Hotel Group also saw revenue rise 30 per cent [...]

One of Britain’s most prestigious hotel chains, the De Vere Group, has become another high profile European chain to partner with the global CRS distribution platform, SiteMinder, to automate and streamline the most powerful online distribution process by connecting their Opera Central Reservation System, ORS, and Revenue Management System, IDeaS to multiple online booking channels. [...]

New platform for Smartphone mobile bookings A boom in mobile bookings has seen online hotel distributor, SiteMinder, release a new mobile version of its direct reservation engine, TheBookingButton. TheBookingButton will now allow all hotel users to access direct bookings through the increasingly important direct ‘mobile’ booking channel which is expected to top $8 billion in [...]

Accommodating Budget to Luxury Hotels Leading distribution company, SiteMinder, has significantly expanded its online network by connecting hotels to six more major online travel agents around the world. Offering online bookings to hotels from the budget sector right through to the luxury end of the market, the six new reservation sites now connected to SiteMinder [...]

SiteMinder Predicts Trends for Online Hotel Distribution for 2012 A key focus for hoteliers around the world in 2012 will be the integration of their online distributions with their Property Management Systems (PMS) and Revenue Management Systems (RMS) to make their online reach faster, simpler and more powerful, according to online distributor, SiteMinder. Forecasting trends [...]

Genting Malaysia Partners with SiteMinder’s Channel Manager 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. Giant leisure, hospitality and entertainment corporation, Genting Malaysia Berhad, which owns [...]

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.