Trend towards direct online booking
Online reservation systems for hotels, and tourism in general, is one of the fastest growing areas of electronic commerce. Year after year we observed a significant fall of the importance of traditional intermediaries, such as travel agencies. They are being replaced by electronic reservation systems available on the Internet. Internet bookings attract customers because of the simplicity and speed of booking and the opportunity to refine the individual offers at one's own home (or office) at any time.
On the current market, there are two main sales channels for hotels:
- Reservation portals (agregators)
- Individual hotels’ sites
Both of these solutions are complementary and allow to optimize the availability of the offer.
Systems available and maintained on external servers
In connection with a number of advantages, including cost reduction, externally hosted systems (installed and constantly available for customers from servers outside the company) are becoming more popular.
The global cost of the system maintained internally is composed licenses, first and following versions installation costs, the cost of purchasing and continuous operation of servers plus the personnel who maintains them. All this is replaced by a fee (subscription charge or per operation), which is lower, evenly spread over time, predictable and completely disclosed (in contrast to many of the costs of the system inside the company, which is not directly attributable to the operation of the system, but which affect the overall cost of running a business).
HOTEL-IN as a direct online booking system hosted externally
Hotel-In is a system that allows you to easily sell the hotel rooms directly from the hotel website. After a quick integration the booking panel appears on the hotel website (to book rooms and promotional events), so that the customer will be able to search the offer and make reservations and payments on your website. Next to the booking panel available on the client site, our system is composed of advanced administration panel that allows to easily manage rooms, prices, promotions and the reservations. You can check the schedule of arrival of guests, perform quick check-in, update paymenst and add additional services to an existing reservation.
Everything is accessible from any web browser, so that you can have access to the system from anywhere at any time. We invite you to explore possibilities for a system to hotel reservation Hotel-In.
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