11 July, 2011

2011 Supranational Conference

Our conference was held this year on the 21st June at the County Hall Park Plaza. The theme for the conference was Travel 3.0 and many members turned out to hear presentations on and around that theme. For those of you who were not able to attend we are now offering these presentations for download.

Duncan Bramwell (Revenue Performance) Keynote Presentation
Phillipe Chonion (CWT Soloutions) - A Journey with a Travel Manager
John Seaton (RT Connect) - Effective OTA Distribution
Paul Adams (Travelport) GDS Roles in the Travel 3.0 world
Roland Tanner (Lanyon) MICE and the 2012 RFP Season
Speaker Biographies
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We hope you will find these presentations informative and we look forward to seeing you all at our 2012 conference.

03 December, 2010

Migration to Columbus NG

We are pleased to inform you that we have completed our SX migration to Columbus NG yesterday.

This means all our hotel members are now on Columbus NG and can start using the new functions such as dynamic rate management and the new NG Booking Engine (e.g. www.maritim.com) if you wish.

The new booking engine enables room up-selling, as well as offering packages, non-room items such as champagne, fruit basket in rooms, spa etc.

There are still a number of outstanding issues requiring follow-ups, including migrating Gateway (our XML Direct Connect to on-line travel agents such as Expedia, Booking.com) and we shall keep you posted on the progress. Please bear with us as you can imagine we will encounter issues in such a huge IT project.

We would also like to use the opportunity to thank our Board of Directors, group and independent members for your patience and support in this lengthy process.

17 November, 2010

Supranational Hotels at WTM 2010

Supranational had a stand at this year's world Travel Market at London's ExCel centre in London.

Our Sales and Marketing team were able to meet with many of our existing customers as well as meeting with future customers to discuss the benefits of working with Supranational.

The team were also able to demonstrate our new Columbus NG platform for bookings and rate distribution which was met with much enthusiasm. The new system will greatly enhance rate management for all our customers and will allow greater flexibility when working with OTAs and as well as the more traditional GDS setups.

Our hotel members under the BX chain code are now on the new NG platform.

WTM was a great opportunity for us to show what Supranational can do both for our present and future customers and we look forward to attending again next year.

19 October, 2010

Supranational Hotels at WTM 2010

Supranational Hotels will be exhibiting at World Travel Market in London, 8-11 November and we would like to invite you to visit our stand - GV501 in the Global Village.

Our sales and management team is keen to update you on the latest developments at Supranational Hotels, demonstrate our hotels portfolio and discuss business opportunities with you.

We will be delighted to share the news on our new projects and how you and your clients can benefit from it; our thoughts on business in 2011 and hear your feedback.

If you would prefer to arrange an appointment with one of us then please email Robert Koncz to set up a convenient time for you.

18 October, 2010

HOTELZON IS NOW LINKED TO OUR CRS VIA XML

We are pleased to announce that Hotelzon.com, one of the largest OTA in Finland, has completed their XML Direct Connect link to our Gateway. This means that every time their consumers do a search, the search request will come via Gateway to pull out the latest public rates and availability and go back to display on Hotelzon's screen. This is what we call the "pull" model.Members hotels, which have negotiated rates with Hotelzon directly, have a choice to carry on managing hotel data via Hotelzon's extranet or you use Gateway, as a more efficient and cost effective distribution channel. Hotels which intend to use Gateway to manage these negotiated rates just need formalise the agreement with Hotelzon and let us know the details of room types and rate types agreed for sale, so that we can map and open these rates on Gateway for Hotelzon.