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Smaller hotels to gain web booking profile
A worldwide low cost booking facility aimed at small hotels or those off the beaten track has been developed by Supranational Hotels.
Known as SKY Hotels, the service costs from euros 30 a month plus a reservations fee. It offers access to one or more GDS systems of the hotel’s choice plus a Pegasus ODD link which provides access to multiple internet portals. A maximum of 10 featured tariffs per hotel will be allowed.
The first two members are properties located in a suburb of Athens (Glyfada) and on the Greek island of Paros.
Supranational expects the new brand to grow to 100 hotels this year, and to 500 within a few years.
Categories of hotel that will be accepted are those under 75 rooms, or which are in out-of-the-way settings such as rural areas, industrial centres, small towns, secondary cities, or in developing countries.
SKY Hotels will be promoted online to an estimated 100,000 travel agents who book through Supranational during the course of a typical year.
Managing director Niels Pedersen said: “This exercise in inclusion aims to encourage wider access to online distribution for hotels that normally could not afford, or justify, such participation. SKY Hotels will expand the market for internet reservations to the benefit of hoteliers, lesser destinations, travel agents, and clients.”
Report by Phil Davies
Phil Davies
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