
Many hotels, B&Bs and residences choose to use
online portals as their
reservation solution
because there is the added benefit of being part of a big network of
reservation sites. This makes it more likely that they will be found by
potential
guests anywhere in the world.
But how can a Portal perform, work and be better than others?
There are, of course, a number of leading portals that we are all familiar with. Websites like Lastminute.com, Expedia and Booking.com have become synonymous with travel and reservations on the internet. Anyway, this doesn't mean they are unbeatable, rather, they must submit many constraints and mostly, since they are portals only, of course they meet customer needs but portals and hotels are often poles apart for many reasons:
- Mandatory Parity Rate
- No chance to personalize offers and special offers
- No chance to sell ancillary services
- No chance to ask for new developments
Trying to compete with these giants by using the same wherewithal would be a disastrous. MAD Portal has been designed following what has already been done for the hotel module in order to suit both the customer's and hotel's needs.
Our key features and performance indicators:
- As many rates, offers and packages as hotels wish
- Opaque Biddings for dedicated, negotiated or discounted rates
- Greater rate competitiveness vs. IDS and GDS (in respect of the Parity Rate)
- Better rate appreciation by the customer
- Multi-Stage Booking
- Mixer for different commission appliance
- Discounts and Charges appliancy
- MAD Booking integration
- MAD Ecom integration
- Dynamic-Packaging
- As many Frontend Experience css graphics as the number of websites the booking is embedded in
You are able to create secure administrative
areas for participating hotel partners to have full control over their
offered rates & allotments, as the system allows them to login,
upload or change them online at anytime.
Hotels exploiting these features are able to access a well-engineered
system to manage their reservations, including rates, offers, packages, discounts, charges and allotment
management.