Design Hotels Enhances Distribution and Revenue Management Solutions

Design Hotels has entered into strategic partnerships with six technology partners, all industry leaders in their fields: Sabre Hospitality Solutions; IdeaS; Travelclick; Micros Fidelio; Lanyon and Nexus.

“Parallel to building a strong consumer brand and community for design, architecture and culture enthusiasts, Design Hotels continues to expand its service portfolio for its member hotels. Our goal is to create long-term value for our hotels. Integrated distribution and automated revenue management solutions are key to our hotels’ competitive strategy. As in our other business areas we’ve taken a holistic approach to revenue management and distribution by combining technology with consultancy services tailored to each of our hotels’ needs. We help our hotels optimize their financial performance and want to become an increasingly valued partner in the process,” said Claus Sendlinger, founder & CEO of Design Hotels.

At the core of the enhanced technology portfolio is a renewed long-term partnership with Sabre Hospitality Solutions. Its central reservation system (SynXis) provides members of Design Hotels the possibility to fully maximize online, mobile and offline global reach.

Design Hotels has teamed up the revenue management specialist, IDeaS, to provide its members with privileged access and commercial terms with the IDeaS automated solution. Alongside the solution Design Hotels provides integrated revenue management consulting services. Furthermore, the company’s new platinum partnership with business intelligence provider Travelclick will boost decision support to the hotels.

The company has also strengthened its relationship with Micros Fidelio. Existing and new members hotels using Micros solutions will be able to leverage a preferred Micros front office PMS and technical integration agreement.

Content management company Lanyon, has been chosen to provide Design Hotels with its content publishing tools, automating otherwise manual processes that will enable Design Hotels and its member hotels to effortlessly publish rich content to multiple online and offline distribution channels.

Nexus will continue to provide Design Hotels with their RFPworX and ShareworX technologies to manage and process corporate and leisure RFP’s.

Toby March, Vice President Sales, Revenue & Distribution at Design Hotels, said, “Our investment in technology, system integration and partnerships with industry leaders takes our distribution and revenue management capability to a new level. We are enabling our member hotels more creative and effective ways to reach out to travelers. However it’s not just about technology alone, as technology will only do what people purpose it to do. We want our hotels to be successful and it’s as much about building a revenue management culture within the hotel. We have added to our range of consulting services and training at all stages of business, from opening support and revenue optimization to taking a multi-channel management approach and developing the sales mix. Our team of experienced professionals takes a simple 360 degree approach to provide personalized training and support to our members.”

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