TravelRes returns to the Business Travel Show launching two NEW features: A Conference Booking Tool Facility And A People Locator
December 11 2007
As an agent between customers on the demand side and hotels on the supply side, TravelRes provides a comprehensive, free of charge and technically-innovative, internet-based hotel reservation service. TravelRes offers both UK business (and private) customers the opportunity to now book over 210,000 hotels of all categories throughout the world at preferred rates.
Says TravelRes UK Country Manager, Roger Niemeyer: "Our return to the Show, with a newly-designed, user-friendly stand, which we are sharing with affiliate partners Air Berlin (325), provides an ideal platform for launching to the UK business travel industry our new Conference Booking Tool. In addition to its online hotel accommodation service, TravelRes can now assist customers and travel managers with organising meeting programmes - from finding the required venue, to catering and technical equipment needs."
Currently there are more than 2,000 conference hotels - mostly in Germany - available through TravelRes. The next six months will see a further 3,000 hotels added to this figure, mainly international destinations with popular hotel groups such as Accor, Marriott, Best Western, Hilton and the InterContinental Hotels Group.
In case of possible emergencies, the new People Locator facility immediately assists Travel Managers in contacting their colleagues wherever they are staying throughout the world. The only pre-condition is a prior online booking via the TravelRes platform.
Niemeyer continues: "2007 has proved a successful year for TravelRes, building our reputation as offering to our customers an increased range of hotels globally, from the high to the mid end of the marketplace, such as Leading Hotels of the World, Von Essen Hotels, Manor House Hotels of Ireland and Elizabeth Hotels."
The NEWLY-DESIGNED TravelRes Stand No 323 at the Business Travel Show 2008 will be manned by UK Country Manager, Roger Niemeyer, together with representatives from the sales team - Angie Heinkel, Owen Easteal and Jolyon Harris. PLEASE VISIT FOR AN ONLINE DEMONSTRATION.
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Special benefits of the service, for the user, range from: access to the company's own multilingual, free-of-charge, 24-hour, 7 days a week call centre; and on-line: best-price rates, with no minimum volume; a sophisticated, address-based vicinity search; control for travel managers; and for meeting organizers, the venue finding facility.
** The Affiliate Programme
TravelRes works with leading and professional travel industry partners - travel agents and online travel portals - which integrate the travelres platform into their reservation pages, currently including www.airberlin.com; www.businesstraveller.com
Over the past year, leading online hotel reservation service hotel.de (available in all German-speaking countries) has been pushing ahead successfully with its international programme under the domain name TravelRes. The UK office - first set up in London in September 2006 - has now been followed by other important countries, including France and Spain (under the domains travelres.fr and travelres.es).
Established in 2001, hotel.de AG, based in Hamm und Nünberg(Germany), in London (UK) and Paris (France) runs a free of charge hotel reservation service for companies and private users on www.hotel.de, TravelRes.com, www.hotel.at and www.hotel.ch. hotel.de AG offers 210.000 hotels throughout the world to be booked online. In 2007 hotel.de has extended its business model by the strongly growing business segment of conference hotel bookings through corporate customers. Compared to other booking channels, hotel.de customers benefit from considerable cost savings. These partially result from the very low hotel rates which hotel.de is able to negotiate with hotels thanks to its high booking volume. Additionally, hotel.de always displays all rates available for every single hotel (e.g. promotional rates, corporate or weekend rates), so that the customer can choose the lowest or best-fitting rate. Another major advantage of hotel.de is the fact that booking confirmations are sent right into the hotel's computer - making a reservation fast, safe and reliable. This is enabled by hotel.de's unique integration of the hotels' central reservation systems (so-called CRS) under one consistent user surface. Well-known companies, such as Wella AG (subsidiary of Procter & Gamble), SAP AG, ThyssenKrupp AG, degussa AG, Logica CMG GmbH, Ernst & Young AG, Wal-Mart, Texas Instruments Inc., Deutsche B�rse Group, Munich Re Group and others already use the hotel.de corporate application.
For further press information:
Jill Faulds on Telephone No: + 44 (0) 1795 890100; mobile: 07831 235 181
Email : faulds@travelres.com