NEW YORK At the eTravelWorld Conference, held at the Marriott Marquis here April 2 – 4, Leapnet, an Internet professional services company, told HOTELBUSINESS. of it s recent collaboration with Amadeus, a GDS, to design, develop, and deploy a European hotel website for Accor, Hilton International, and the Forte Hotel Group.
The new website, called andbook.com, was created to “pull these hotel companies resources together” and create a European portal like a “Europe.com,” said Tony Cordero of Leapnet. The website creates a combined booking engine for all three of the hotel companies, which will allow travelers to obtain demographic information, review maps, check hotel availability, make real-time reservations, and develop personalized accounts.
“Combining three companies in Amadeus has never been done before,” said Michael Oltman of Leapnet. He added that while the site is not designed to replace these hotel companies existing brand websites, it should replace the existing booking engines on these sites. “Their sites will link to andbook,” said Oltman, where reservations can be made in real-time. (4/2/01) Diana M. Rodriguez