Travelport has unveiled its new offering, which is designed to be a one-stop hotel shop for travel agents. The company’s Travelport Rooms and More hotel booking engine will be made available to all agencies worldwide in the coming months, even those who do not use the Travelport GDS platform.

Published: 30 Jun 2011

Travelport has unveiled its new offering, which is designed to be a one-stop hotel shop for travel agents. The company’s Travelport Rooms and More hotel booking engine will be made available to all agencies worldwide in the coming months, even those who do not use the Travelport GDS platform.

Travelport Rooms and More will be deployed to all regions globally by the end of the year.

The company says the new engine will allow travel agents to book a greater choice of commissionable accommodation and take advantage of the rapidly growing hotel sector.

Referring to recent Euromonitor figures, the company mentioned that the value of global hotel bookings will reach $545 billion in 2015, demonstrating a compound annual growth rate of 5.9 percent between 2010 and 2015.

Ready for a phased worldwide roll out from July, Travelport Rooms and More combines the consumer insights, metasearch functionality and user interface developed by Sprice.com, which was acquired by Travelport in May 2010, with Travelport’s core B2B expertise.

As well as Travelport’s extensive GDS hotel content (available to Travelport GDS subscribers), the Travelport hospitality team has also signed new agreements with over 20 hotel aggregators and OTAs including bedsonline, Transhotel, LateRooms.com and lowcostbeds. In total, over 200,000 hotel properties will be available to book.

Niklas Andréen, Travelport’s group vice president, global hospitality, said the new offering complements its GDS hotel offering.

He explained that new content would continue to be added post-launch and estimated that there could be as many as 50 aggregators signed up by the end of the year.

“Our leisure-focussed travel agency customers told us they were spending far too much time searching for content across numerous hotel booking solutions and websites and then struggling with inefficient booking processes,” said Andréen, who added that the new offering is now going to take care of such concerns.