FastBooking Comes To New York

NEW YORK— FastBooking has opened its USA Sales and Service Center here to sell and support hotels on its booking engine software. Over 1500 hotels worldwide now utilize the web-based application, which facilitates booking in a choice of 20 languages. FastBooking is a booking tool that sits on the hotel’s website. It is completely managed online by the hotel permitting instant updates to inventory and client rates. Further, the system is totally transparent from the user as no branded trademarks are used on any page. The application manages complex quotations by room, stay, or by person. In addition, it can handle unlimited rate offerings, and individually provide inventory for each. It can also manage e-marketing tools, such as e-mail and Internet source capture. Private rates such as tour operators, local and global corporate clients, secretary clubs, preferred travel agents club, promotions with restricted viewership, and groups, either booked direct or via meeting planners, are all managed via access keys given to the client. Their private rates and contract conditions are pre-populated on the booking screen further facilitating error-free bookings. Rates, policies, inclusions, and sale terms can all also be individually defined. Going further, FastBooking’s e-consulting services assist the hotel in developing an Internet strategy. Search engine results can provide direct links to a given hotel’s promotional offers booking page. When a specific offer is not available, the best available rate is then offered as a default reducing the efforts of the user to re-qualify dates and information a second or third time. In recent news, FastBooking has partnered with Go-Voyages, a French tour operator. FastBooking will be the hotel booking engine for the Go-Voyages hotel program going forward. Also, FastBooking has a similar partnership with Accenture-France.