Atlanta, Georgia – August 6, 2009 – Hotel Booking Solutions Incorporated today announced the activation of their interface with Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts, a leading deluxe hotel brand. 

HBSi is providing enhanced connectivity between Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts and many of their tour operator partners, wholesalers and other electronic distribution channels such as Travelocity, US Air Vacations and Travel Impressions. Using the iDemand Gateway enables Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts to instantaneously transmit their room availability, rates and inventory to members of the HBSi Demand Partner Network (DPN).  In addition, this interface fully automates reservation delivery so the hotels will no longer be required to manually enter faxed or emailed reservations from these channels.  While assuring accuracy, the HBSi connection replaces costly, error-prone manual processes for both the hotels and their distributors.

“We are excited to add HBSi connectivity to the services we offer to our hotels.  The tremendous advantages of using the HBSi connection to our CRS in order to provide our properties with direct connectivity to electronic distribution cannot be overstated,” said Petra Goetting, VP Marketing & Sales, for Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts.  “The remarkable response from our hotels to the HBSi connection proves that this is the perfect partnership to help us increase revenues and streamline operations.”
“I am exceptionally pleased to add the Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts properties to our growing Supply Partner Network.  With their extraordinary reputation, we are confident that all current and future members of our Demand Partner Network will be as excited as we are to work with them” said HBSi COO Greg Berman. “Our growth plan for this year of adding international Supply is clearly succeeding,” concluded Berman.

HBSi’s iDemand GatewayTM solution connects hotels chiefly with tour operators and the world’s largest online travel agencies to streamline the flow of transactions. For some customers, HBSi eliminates time-consuming, error-prone processes associated with manually managing multiple extranets that provide distribution channels access to the very latest rates, inventory and, in many cases, last room availability.

For more automated customers, the HBSi solution dramatically enhances merchandising capabilities so they can offer more products in more innovative ways. HBSi’s flexible solution provides robust interfaces to legacy and leading-edge systems to suit each customer’s needs, increasing revenues and streamlining operations.

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