European accommodation site Venere.com has signed a new agreement with Derbysoft that allows the leading Asian Channel Manager's travel agencies portfolio to resell Venere's hotels to their customers.

Published: 22 Apr 2008

European accommodation site Venere.com has signed a new agreement with Derbysoft that allows the leading Asian Channel Manager's travel agencies portfolio to resell Venere's hotels to their customers.

Founded in Shanghai in 2002, DerbySoft is a technology company serving the hospitality and travel industries in China. It has a growing team of 180 members in offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu and the US.

By the end of May, Derbysoft's TAs will have access to Venere.com portfolio via dedicated interface, making available to Chinese travellers more than 26.000 properties, mainly in Europe and US.

"Currently we have 885 travel agencies using our system, including Lion Travel (the biggest agency in Taiwan), CITS (one of the largest agencies in China) and China Business International Travel Service (specialised in Corporate Travel). The integration with Venere.com will make more and more simple to our partners the process of booking hotels overseas," said Stephen Liu, Vice President, Derbysoft.

"One of our main objective for 2008 is to develop our TA interface and the number of affiliated travel agents, driven by our large and distinctive hotel offer, attractive commissions, a new pre-paid model and many other dedicated initiatives. In this sense, the agreement with Derbysoft represents the first step of an ambitious business development strategy," said Marco Ficarra, CEO, Venere.com.

This new alliance consolidates the relationship between the two companies, following the recent agreement that led Venere.com to a step increase in inventory in China via DerbySoft's DSwitch.

DerbySoft shared that it has developed and now operates the largest hotel switch in China serving thousands of large international and domestic chain hotels including Hilton, IHG, BTG-Nikko Hotels, Jinling Hotel Group, CTS Hotels and others as well as more than 1000 independent Chinese hotels. On the buyer side, hundreds of Chinese travel agencies, corporate travel offices, OTA and other online distribution channels are connected to the switch.