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eRevMax Channel Ecosystem connects with leading Japanese OTA for deeper integration

Rakuten Travel has become the first Japan-based OTA to partner with eRevMax, utilising the ARI abilities of both RateTiger and Connect to offer greater opportunities to their clients. Rakuten Travel had noticed the changing trends within the travel industry particularly that travellers are now looking for more choices, competitive rates and last minute deals. This integration is become the part of Rakuten Travel’s global expansion says company president Takanobu Yamamoto.

The largest online hotel reservation website of the Japan, Rakuten Travel, currently connected with over 80,000 hotels worldwide including approximately 30,000 hotels in Japan, will be able to gain access to broader products and more availability, improve booking conversion and increase revenues as part of its growth plans across South East Asia, USA and Latin America.

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Singgasana Hotels and Resorts partners with eRevMax to ride the online wave

Singgasana Hotels and Resorts, a leading property chain in Indonesia, has recently completed integration with eRevMax’s RateTiger Suite to help them modernise and revolutionise the way their guests make bookings and reservations. Before this integration, offline communications were responsible for the majority of bookings at Singgasana hotels. The Group were looking for a superior channel manager at a time when Indonesia is expected to be the fastest growing travel market in APAC region by 2015.

Due to the sudden rise in demand for online access, the company sought out a channel and ARI management system to meets their growing needs, and it’s come at just the right time and RateTiger perfectly suits their demand. Corporate Digital Marketing Manager Ivana Novida has found that RateTiger has helped the company to add ‘new channels to increase visibility’.





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Russian hotel OTA Travel.ru (Oktogo) integrates with eRevMax for advanced XML connectivity

Travel.ru, Russia’s largest OTA, has recently completed a two-way integration with eRevMax in order to provide their users with greater flexibility, improved visibility, and more efficient and effective booking processes. Maintaining a portfolio of 350,000 hotels across the globe, Travel.ru had identified issues relating to outdated rates and properties being overbooked simply due to the difficulties in overseeing such a large number of properties. CEO Marina Kolesnik sought out an easy-to-use, cost effective solution to tackle these problems head on, whilst also providing users with additional benefits, most notably eRevMax’s Reservation Delivery Service, which transfers online bookings through the OTA directly to the hotel’s internal PMS.


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eRevMax to host TigerTime at ITB Berlin for hoteliers

eRevMax, the leading hospitality technology & solutions provider of channel management and connectivity solutions, RateTiger and Connect, hosted its signature TigerTime session with the major Asian OTAs at ITB Berlin. The distribution provider will share valuable insights how to capture fair share of bookings in the emerging markets from the key online distribution players in the Asia region. Asia has ousted Europe to become the world’s biggest travel market. TigerTime session will be held with major Asian OTAs Rakuten, Wotif and Agoda.

Until recently, there was very little need to ensure visibility within Asia – a continent known for their preference of more traditional ways. However, with almost half of Asian travellers now citing the web as their number one method for travel booking, there has never been a more important time for hoteliers to branch out.
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Transhotel becomes a certified eRevMax distributor

Global travel services provider Transhotel has joined the eRevMax Channel Ecosystem – a collection of certified demand partners having two way XML connection pre-configured for rate, inventory and reservation distribution to help hotels take online sales to the next level.
Transhotel, which collaborates with 78,800 travel agencies and offers a portfolio of more than 60,000 hotels internationally, will be a great platform for eRevMax’s hotel clients looking to expand their visibility by promoting inventory globally and creating incremental business opportunities.
“This integration will enable eRevMax hotel users to process rate and inventory updates via the advanced XML interface transferring data in real-time, while also receiving reservation data generated from the Transhotel extranet. The seamless connectivity aims at enhancing data flow, which will greatly reduce time to market, thereby helping hotels place immediate updates depending on the latest market scenario. This will further help hotels to continuously generate incremental and guaranteed business through RateTiger updates,” said Natalia Fernández, Chief Contracting & Product Officer at Transhotel.
The hotel channel management specialist has been developing its distribution network to offer advanced connections to RateTiger and Connect enterprise platform users. eRevMax aims to help industry partners better match supply with relevant demand in a timely manner thereby creating new business opportunities.
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