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Guest Connect Web Booking Engine produces more reservations from your web site

 
In this age of high-speed internet and fast communications, travelers want easy access to everything and they want it right now.  They like to know if a hotel has available rooms, how much the rooms cost, proceed to reserve and receive an instant confirmation.  As a hotelier, you need to see to it that your web site can do all of this.  If not, the traveler will simply click away and seek the flexibility and speed of another hotel’s website.

To meet your needs, GlobRes offers the Guest Connect Web Booking Engine, equipped with the latest AJAX technology and minimal page loading time.  Once you install the GlobRes booking engine on your web site, travelers will immediately have access to room availability, rates, special promotions, upgraded packages and alternate availability.  They can make instant and confirmed reservations without waiting for your delayed response by email or fax.  All this translates into more reservations for your hotel.

Booking engine built with latest technology

The setup of the GlobRes Guest Connect Web Booking Engine is easily and centrally controlled from the GlobRes Control Center, enabling you to create special promotional packages and to easily change room availability and rates.  In addition, the booking engine offers these important features:

 

  • Web Site Match: The GlobRes booking engine is customized to match each hotel’s web site.  The booking engine becomes an integral part of the hotel web site.  In this way, travelers’ minds never leave your web site to make a reservation.
  • Multiple Languages: Travelers can book reservations in 25 languages, with flags that allow for easy language recognition and selection.
  • Availability Calendars: Color-guided calendars show at-a-glance availability and stay restrictions allowing the traveler to consolidate and adapt his travel plans in a quicker and therefore more efficient way.
  • Special Promotional Codes: Issue individual codes to guests, travel agents, wedding parties, groups or even tour operators to provide exclusive access to negotiated rates or promotions.
  • Corporate Codes: Issue special codes to business customers for preferred access to corporate and negotiated rates.
  • Dynamic Packaging: Increase revenue by offering additional products, services and upgrades as part of the booking process, anything ranging from champagne in the room to airport transfers or golf tee times.
  • Traveler Profiles:  The booking engine stores the profile of frequent visitors, allowing returning guests to navigate at high speed through the booking process.  Frequent guest profile reports allow hoteliers to conduct targeted marketing campaigns.
  • Multiple Room Photos: One picture sells a thousand times more than any one word! Our booking engine displays multiple photos and room plans of each room type.  More photos…. more sales.
  • Hotel Policies Displayed: Clear communication channel displaying relevant cancellation policies, guarantee policies, potential penalties, check-in/check-out times, etc.
  • Reservation Confirmations by Email: A customized confirmation is sent to the guest upon finalizing a reservation.  Text and layout can be adjusted at any time allowing for great flexibility and numerous marketing opportunities.
  • Pre-arrival and Post-departure E-mails: Welcome your guests with a customizable pre-arrival e-mail or thank your client with a post-departure survey.  More great marketing tools!
  • IATA Codes: Accept reservations with IATA number from travel agents for easy commission processing.
  • Alternate Availability: Re-direct valuable business to sister or partner hotels when fully booked.
  • Advanced Search and on-screen Filtering: Allow for quicker navigation of the room and rate selection through pin-pointed search criteria based on each traveler’s individual need.

Key Features:

  • 3-step booking process; proven most effective
  • AJAX Technology with faster page loading
  • Dynamic Packaging to Increase per Reservation Revenue
  • Promotional Pricing
  • Multiple images with direct links to room- or package-specific virtual tours
  • Updated Search and filtering
  • Privacy and Security
  • Available in 25 languages

 

View examples of the Globres Web Booking Engine

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Example of the Globres Advanced Booking Engine

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