Gateway enhances its hotel booking engine

Jan 25, 2010

Belgian-based content and technology specialist Gateway has enhanced its hotel booking engine, Gateway 2 Travel, with upgraded map search functionality and XML options.

Published: 25 Jan 2010

Belgian-based content and technology specialist Gateway has enhanced its hotel booking engine, Gateway 2 Travel, with upgraded map search functionality and XML options.

With Gateway 2 Travel’s new MapSearch upgrade, the agent or operator merely has to type in a city name to generate a map showing hotel locations. Booking options can be further refined by using a range of filters, such as price, star rating or accommodation type, a defined point of interest (such as The Louvre in Paris), or a specific hotel name or street.

Gateway’s XML service has been developed to provide maximum flexibility for agents and tour operators with their own B2C booking engine, and who want to enhance their hotel offer as a way of attracting and keeping volume customers.

Gateway 2 Travel’s single XML interface means that agents and operators don’t have to build multiple XML interfaces to a range of different hotel suppliers. The user merely has to build his own single interface to stream Gateway’s data seamlessly to his own booking engine. The user can present Gateway 2 Travel hotel content, availability and net prices that are tailored specifically to his own needs and delivered through his own interface.

According to the company, Gateway 2 Travel is now being used by nearly 2,000 travel agents and tour operators worldwide.