Press Releases

SiteMinder today announced connectivity of its channel management platform to Rakuten, Japan’s leading online booking site.

“We have just gone live with this connection, and already we have had very positive feedback from our customers regarding bookings coming through this channel. With the Rakuten partnership, SiteMinder continues to deliver on our commitment to our customers to put their rooms in front of consumers in every part of the world. The key benefit in listing with SiteMinder is not only the variety of sites and breadth of distribution we offer, but more importantly the relevance of the channels we offer in driving bookings.” – Mike Ford, Managing Director, SiteMinder.

SiteMinder, a leading provider of online distribution technology to the Australian and New Zealand accommodation markets, today announced the connection of a host of new distribution channels for its properties. The new online booking channels will allow SiteMinder’s customers to enjoy exposure to a much wider range of local and international consumers.

The new connected sites include Orbitz, CentralR, LateRooms, Venere, Discover Australia, Discover West, GoGoGo, Jasons.

SiteMinder is proud to announce several new features recently released for TheBookingButton, SiteMinder’s market leading commission free online booking facility for direct website bookings.

This release adds room level photograph control as well as Google Map features to enrich the booking experience, converting more website visits into actual bookings.

SiteMinder announced today that it has added Agoda.com to its rapidly expanding list of major international booking sites. SiteMinder aims to drive more and more bookings for its customers from the international inbound market, and the addition of leading high quality booking sites like Agoda.com, serve to further this goal.

SiteMinder is pleased to announce new distribution opportunities for our customers.

SiteMinder was recently certified by Booking.com as a connection partner, allowing SiteMinders customers to be exposed to overseas markets through one of Europe’s largest online booking sites.

Rydges has adopted SiteMinder’s market leading online distribution technology across all properties in the group. The move allows Rydges to increase their exposure to online distribution channels without having to manage the room inventory on the individual booking sites and dramatically reduces any chances of overbooking.

SiteMinder today announced that it has added My Bookings™ by Entertainment™ to its growing list of distribution channels. My Bookings™ by Entertainment™ is the online accommodation service for hotels featured in the popular Entertainment™ Book (www.entertainmentbook.com.au). Entertainment™ Members receive exclusive rates when booking accommodation through the mybookings.com.au website.

SiteMinder today announced its new connection to Hotelclubs Flexnet. This connection, along with the existing Expedia and Travelocity connections, brings more global exposure into the SiteMinder fold and adds further opportunity for those SiteMinder customers that want to reach consumers across the world. HotelClub is another move by SiteMinder to provide a truly global distribution option for its customers. SiteMinder is committed to further enhancing its international online distribution options in the near future .

In another industry first, SiteMinder has been fully integrated with the market leading RMS property management software, allowing RMS users to have their inventory AUTOMATICALLY distributed to a host of local and international online accommodation websites. SiteMinder’s business is to provide properties with maximum online distribution with the minimum of effort, generating the maximum yield from online sources which is where the future of booking lies. RMS customers have their inventory automatically sent to all online websites whenever it is changed in the property management system, and whenever a booking is made on any third party site, that reservation is immediately dropped into the RMS property management system so it doesn’t have to be recaptured by the property.

SiteMinder announced today that it has further strengthened its ties with Expedia, the major international online accommodation site. SiteMinder has successfully integrated to Expedias Quick Connect (EQC) system allowing dual way integration and real time distribution of SiteMinder allotments to Expedia. This move allows SiteMinder supplier properties to enjoy 10% commissions for 28 day bookings made locally on Expedia’s website. The connection to Expedia is an important milestone in SiteMinder’s strategy to increase local and international business for our properties from online sources.

Big4 Holiday parks recently announced the selection of SiteMinder as the Channel Manager of choice for the Big4 Holiday Park Group. After extensive analysis of competing products, Big4 concluded that SiteMinder best suited the needs of their properties and the group as a whole.

SiteMinder is proud to announce selection by the HMAA as a preferred partner, and is the only Channel Manager in Australia to achieve this. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial association with the HMAA and their members.

SiteMinder has recently been named as a Best Western preferred supplier for online distribution channel management services and will be included in the next edition of the Best Western Best Buyers guide. We are very pleased with our association with the Best Western group and their endorsement of the SiteMinder product is further acknowledgement by the industry of the reputation for service and reliability that SiteMinder has earned itself in the marketplace over the last 18 months.

Not 1 Night (www.not1night.com.au) specialises in providing discount rates for the medium to long term stay and as such offers a unique distribution option for SiteMinder members. The addition of Not1Night further enhances SiteMinders distribution network and highlights SiteMinder’s ongoing commitment to provide an increasing range of online inventory channels for its user base.

Mitchell Corp has selected SiteMinder to provide online distribution services to their large portfolio of New Zealand and Australian properties. SiteMinder will distribute real time allocation and pricing information directly from the Mitchell Corp central reservation system to the wide range of local and international online distribution channels that are available through the SiteMinder distribution system.