TelMe Farebase signs agreement with Conferma and CNG to offer a complete hotel management system for agents

Travel technology and air fares distribution specialists, TelMe Farebase, has signed a collaborative agreement with two leading online hotel reservations companies, NIS Europe, and CNG International. Development work is being undertaken to integrate the CNG product for consumer clients, whilst NIS’s Conferma hotel management system will be branded Ticket Window Conferma and targeted more at the corporate customer. This agreement will enable TelMe Farebase to offer agents the ability to search availability, make and manage bookings in hotels all over the world. The system allows agents, and their travel clients, to search and book hotel rooms with real time availability and ensures that they can access the most favourable rates. The Ticket Window Conferma package will include the Conferma Database nett rate loading programme, hotel allocation management programme, hotel content and images, in addition to preloaded Conferma commissionable rates. The same system will also allow agents to manage hotel allocations and rates for non-GDS hotels. Conferma Operations Director, Sherie Keable, commented, “We are sure that TelMe Farebase customers will be quick to realise the full benefits of this service as the quickest and easiest way to make low cost world-wide hotel reservations”. The CNG package will be offered with a common look and feel to existing TelMe flight booking systems and will be a key component of development on areas such as city breaks etc. It will also be an ideal tool for business travel agents who will be able to generate additional revenues through managing hotel programmes for their clients. Retail and leisure agents will also gain by obtaining wholesale hotel rates, late room availability, and dynamic packaging with flights to offer to customers. Both product systems will add additional value to the TelMe Farebase Ticket Window suite of products. Peter Muller, Managing Director of TelMe Farebase, continued, “We are delighted to be able to offer this new hotel service to agents. This additional product will augment our air fares distribution and management system for agents and will provide another source of potential income for travel agents”. Agents will also be able to opt for a commission collection service through this collaboration with TelMe Farebase. For a small fee, commissions on bookings will be chased by both companies and remitted on a monthly basis to TelMe Farebase clients. Conferma / CNG will continue to be responsible for the development and delivery of the technology for the hotel management system for customers.