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Cendant boosts its hotel inventory
Cendant Corporation has bought hotel reservation website Lodging.com.
The acquisition is good news for travel agents using Galileo, who will receive commissions for booking through Lodging.com once it has been integrated into Cendant. A spokesperson for Cendant said that the company hoped to integrate Lodging.com into the Cendant Travel Distribution Division by the end of the year. This would only initially be available to agents in the US, to be expanded internationally at some point in the next year.
According to Cendant, Lodging.com generates about 115,000 hotel reservations every month from its inventory of 3,000 hotels in North America and the Caribbean.
Cendant’s Travel Distribution Division chairman and chief executive, Samuel Katz said: “We expect Lodging.com to increase annual bookings across all travel brands, provide discounted deals for customers that can be cross-marketed through other Cendant businesses and affiliates, expand our agencies’ and Galileo’s non-air distribution, and deliver more attractive offerings to the desktops of Galileo travel agencies”.
Lodging.com will also become the preferred hotel distribution partner of Trip Network, Inc., an independent affiliate of Cendant.
Galileo International’s recently appointed Sam Galeotos said: “Addding Lodging.com to Cendant’s growing list of hotel distribution service businesses is yet another great value-added service to our lodging suppliers, who receive the benefit of a new effective and flexible distribution channel”.
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