Online Reservation Software

Singapore - July 03, 2001
Globekey Offers Licensed Copies of its online booking software

In response to customer demand from hotels and travel website operators, Globekey is offering new flexible software packages. Globekey's real-time reservations software provides a booking engine for hotel websites, and for portal websites selling hotel rooms and tour services over the Internet.

To date Globekey has been leasing the software to hotels spread around the world, from the Pansea Ksar Ghilane in Tunisia to the South Pacific Resort Noosa in Australia.

As a result of several regional hotel chains expressing an interest in buying the software, for use on an unlimited number of websites, Globekey has now launched sales of licensed copies. A licensed copy offers a turn-key solution to large hotels and travel operators wishing to add a booking engine to multiple websites.

Duncan Webb, Vice-President Sales and Marketing at Amari Hotels & Resorts in Thailand, said "I believe that the availability of on-line confirmation is essential to hotel companies seeking to maximise their revenue from the Internet. Globekey offered a cost-efficient and effective way of adding this facility to www.amari.com. The multiple features of the software have also proved useful in areas of yield management and marketing data."

The Globekey software was designed by tourism industry experts and offers a flexible booking engine for hotel, tour operator and travel portal websites. Some hotels are using the Globekey software for corporate client reservations, giving their key clients a password-protected link into the system so that they can confirm rooms instantly at their agreed corporate rates. The system works in the same way for wholesale tour operators.

"I have been very happy with the number of reservations which the Globekey booking engine has generated for the resort" said Chris Ong, General Manager of the Nirwana Gardens Resort on Bintan Island, Indonesia. He added "Direct sales via www.nirwanagardens.com are high revenue and making our website interactive has proved extremely beneficial".

There is no 'sign up' cost for a hotel to join Globekey, and hotels are not locked into a long-term contract. Prices for leasing the software start at US$30 per month for a small hotel. Hotels can be up and running on Globekey within 24 hours. Most Reservations Managers take just half a day to enter data into the 'back office', over the Internet. A hotel webmaster needs less than an hour to add a small amount of coding to link his website to Globekey. Weekly maintenance of the system takes only a few minutes on the Internet.

Roland Aung, Front Office Manager at the Tai Pan Hotel in Bangkok, said "I am impressed by how easy it is to use the Globekey software. I completed initial data entry in just a few hours and our webmaster needed only 30 minutes to add a small amount of coding to link Globekey to www.tai-pan.com. Globekey gave us a low-cost solution to receiving instant reservations from our website".

In addition to its turn-key solution for real-time reservations, Globekey is also customising its software to meet specific client needs. Customisation projects to date include a system to handle reservations from international sales offices for a river cruiser, and a facility on a travel portal website to show only hotels with rooms available for requested dates.

" As a network of unique boutique hotels with low room inventories, we have found Globekey to be both competitive and responsive, providing an online reservations system that serves both hotel and guest in an efficient manner" said Charles Coleman, Director of Pansea Resorts & Hotels. " The system has proved itself to be an efficacious marketing tool for www.pansea.com".

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