Amadeus Debuts Hotel Optimization Package for Agents

Amadeus has introduced the Amadeus Hotel Optimization Package, which large travel agencies and travel management companies (TMCs) can use to more efficiently access to all relevant hotel content and save time for their travel counselors.

Amadeus’ Profit Optimization area helps large travel agencies and TMCs save time and have more control over global hotel programs, while its Content Optimization section creates a one-stop shop for hotel content.

The Hotel Dynamic Saver is a multi-GDS Business Intelligence solution that provides last room availability, identification of rate squatters and automatic future comparison of negotiated versus public rates to ensure buyers get the best deal at all times.

With Hotel Dynamic Saver, Amadeus can identify an average achievable savings of 10 percent on total hotel spend for travel agencies and corporations. For a typical Fortune 500 corporation this can mean annual savings of up to $1.6 million on hotels alone.

Amadeus integrates hotel aggregators into all its travel agency point-of-sale solutions. First to be integrated in 2011 were Destinations of the World and Transhotel, representing a total inventory of more than 50,000 hotels. Amadeus said having this hotel content fully integrated into its system saves time and money for travel agents and increases service levels for their clients.

Amadeus LinkHotel is a fast-track service that incorporates specific hotels requested by travel agencies and their corporate customers that are currently not bookable on the GDS (for instance, hotels close to remote manufacturing sites which typically would not show on these systems).

Through this service Amadeus already connects over 6,000 hotels to the GDS for real-time reservations. Additional components within the package include a tool to drive contract compliance by driving smarter booking behavior at the point of sale.