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Open a 24/7 Room Booking Channel with a Hotel Booking System
Posted: Jun 11, 2015
Hotel rooms are perishable, so what better ways to grow room occupancy than with a 24/7 hotel booking system. This is an excellent room booking option for hotels in across South East Asia, Asia-Pacific, Indian sub-continent, Oceania, Middle East and Africa who attract a large number of international tourists.
The good part is that the hotel booking system can actually sit on your website. Prospective guests tend to trust hotel websites more when it comes to booking rooms, so when visitors come to your site, enable them to check out your facilities and then direct them to your hotel booking system to complete the process.
A hotel or web booking system is also the most cost effective booking channel.
Here are a few more advantages of a hotel booking engine
- Opportunity to market and brand your hotel property more strongly
- Connect with your potential guests directly
- Access a 24/7, 365 days room booking channel
- Opportunity to sell until the very last room and increase occupancy
- Create discounts and hotel packages on the fly to attract more bookings
- Enhance guest satisfaction and create an opportunity for repeat bookings
Is it difficult to implement a hotel booking system?
A hotel booking system is a small engine that can be easily plugged into your website. Most online hotel booking system can be modified to ensure they adopt the look and feel of your website. It can be integrated with a payment gateway or without it as well. This intelligent tool can be easily interfaced with your property management system and it enables guests to view room availability real-time. They can make booking and would receive instant confirmation against the same directly from the property management system. Most importantly, this entire process is error free.
Gets a real-time hotel booking system integrated into your hotel website
IDS Next Hotel ERP has a robust and real-time booking engine for hotels integrated into it. This means that when a booking is made, your guest receives an instant room booking confirmation directly from your hotel management software. This does away with delays in confirmation and minimizes error. It also reduces stress on your hotel staff to make the booking manually. IDS Next’s smart web booing engine Web booking engine solution can be integrated with all versions of FortuneNEXT 6i Hotel ERP, namely FortuneNEXT 6i Enterprise, FortuneNEXT 6i Professional, FortuneNEXT 6i Express and FortuneNEXT 6i Genie.
Debi Prasad Sarangi handles Corporate Communications at Ids Next Business Solutions, a global leader in the domain of hospitality technology solutions.