Hotel booking sites are tweaking their websites in response to feedback from the trade.
Bedbank has re-launched its website, re-positioning itself in the luxury sector.
With a new strapline ‘luxury accommodation and transfers worldwide’, the site now only features four- and five-star hotels, villas and apartments, with bookable upgrades and transfers.
It is also offering added value options and exclusive special offers which, it claims, will make it easier for agents to increase margins and control how they mark-up the product.
The website has been improved to give faster searches, improved content, integrated transfers by Transfers4Travel and the ability for agents to personalise and forward accommodation information and quotes to the customer.
BookaBed has also added new functions to its booking system in response to agents.
Agents can now make several hotel bookings within one reference number with the ‘add another hotel’ button and they will also be shown the most popular hotels when they search.
Darren Hall, head of sales UK for BookaBed said : "We are constantly improving & developing our site with the best technology out there and we have made some great new additions to the website following feedback from the forum, the best way to provide the rights ‘tools’ to agents is to listen to what they need to convert sales."
He added that additional enhancements have been scheduled based on feedback and will be launched by the end of Q1.
