New online inventory and distribution management system launched
Published: 04 Sep 2008
Allotz.com has announced the launch of its next-generation online inventory and distribution management system.
It has come up with what it calls "the world's first true, two-way fully automated "Set and Forget" global inventory distribution and management system."
Martin McConnachie, president, Allotz.com said, "For too long accommodation providers have spent vast amounts of time and money managing room inventory manually across multiple online travel agent sites and managing issues with over-bookings and paying too many commissions, but thanks to Allotz.com these headaches are a thing of the past."
"Allotz.com is not just about streamlining the accommodation provider's business model and making them more accessible to potential customers, it is a solution that will positively impact their bottom line whilst giving them more time to spend on their business and on customer service," he said.
He said the company is now in a position to offer this fully functioning technology to all online travel agent sites and accommodation providers within Australiasia, with the rest of the world to come later this year.
Allotz.com is now fully integrated with the GDS networks for accommodation providers meaning Allotz.com can now distribute accommodation provider room inventory to the likes of Sabre, Galileo/Apollo, Amadeus, Worldspan and their associated companies and networks. This connection alone puts accommodation provider room inventory in front of over 600,000 travel agents globally, including high traffic sites such as Travelocity, Orbitz and Hotwire.
In addition, Allotz.com has achieved integration with online travel agent sites.
According to Allotz.com, it enables online travel agents and accommodation providers to eliminate issues with over-bookings, whilst also removing the need for spiders and web bots (otherwise known as screen-scrapers), with its two-way permission based distribution system. The system efficiently exchanges inventory data and dynamically manages allocations of room inventory by accommodation providers to ensure that all available rooms are made available for sale, adjusting the rate according to market demand, without over-selling.
"The two-way, permission based distribution system is fully automated, so accommodation providers can upload their inventory once via one login at Allotz.com and not look at it again for a year, meaning valuable hours each day that would normally be spent updating inventory across multiple online travel agents, can now be used to grow and focus on other important business issues," said McConnachie.
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