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Navarino Services announces functionality for their Partner Hotels to display and accept bookings direct from Tripadvisor via the Tripadvisor Check Rates Programme.

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:34:00 GMT

Encourage guests back to direct booking with Tripadvisor Check Rates programme, available from Navarino Services.

Tripadvisor® is one of the world's largest travel sites, enabling travellers to plan and have the perfect trip. Tripadvisor offers trusted advice from real travellers and a wide variety of travel choices and planning features with seamless links to booking tools.

What is Tripadvisor Check Rates?
Currently, consumers utilising Tripadvisor to review hotels can select dates they are looking to stay at the property and Tripadvisor acts as a Meta-Search site offering price checks across the major OTA’s such as Expedia, Hotels.com, Booking.com, Venere etc. When a guest selects dates and choses ‘Check Rates’ the site returns pricing for the selected dates from all their OTA Partners.

How does this work?
By signing up to the programme, you can now have your own Hotel Website listed with the OTA’s and when a consumer selects a hotel by clicking the tick box and then clicks on the ‘Check Rates!’ tab, Tripadvisor will return results available from your Navarino Booking Engine, allowing guests to book ‘Direct’ with your hotel.

The benefits to you
Encourage consumers straight to your own booking channel and direct them away from the OTA’s who charge you a high commission.

Receive incremental business from TripAdvisor users at the lowest possible cost per booking.

Availability and rates are driven from what you load into the Navarino CRS and reservations are sent back through the system just as for any other booking.

Increase the distribution of your own website, assisting with Search Engine Optimisation and maintaining your hotel’s OWN brand.

Detailed reporting is available from Navarino Services to help you analyze the booking sources and revenue of these bookings via our enhanced analytics reports and within the Navarino CRS.

Navarino Services (with its technology partner Sabre Hospitality Solutions) has worked with Tripadvisor on this pay-per-click advertising module to help your hotels make the most out of this new, and much discussed, product.

If you have further questions on the Tripadvisor Price Check Programme, please contact your Navarino Account Manager or

Email: support@navarinoservices.com

Navarino Services introduce additional GDS distribution opportunity in partnership with Priceline.com

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:05:00 GMT

Navarino Services are pleased to offer an additional distribution opportunity via the Priceline.com Opaque ‘Name your own Price’ Programme.

Who are Priceline?

The Priceline Group of Companies (including Priceline.com, Agoda, Booking.com and Travel jigsaw) is the leader in global online hotel reservations, with over 150,000 participating hotels worldwide and 92.8 million room nights booked in 2010. Priceline has more than 1/3 of the OTA’s U.S. share of hotel bookings.

Benefits of Joining 'Name your own Price' Programme:

- Attract incremental customers without diluting retail rates.
- Fill distressed inventory and increase RevPAR
- No minimum allocation, you can open and close rates for sale as required.
- All reservations are Non-cancellable/changeable and pre-paid.
- No Extranet - all rates, availability and reservations are managed and delivered via the Navarino CRS
- Fair selection process - all hotels get a chance to be booked even if not they are not the lowest priced.
- Invaluable pricing data so you know exactly what customers are willing to pay.

For further details or to discuss any aspect of Priceline.com please do not hesitate to contact us: sales@navarinoservices.com.

Navarino Services Ltd announce Preferred Partnership with Carlson Wagonlit Travel for 2012

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:52:00 GMT

Navarino Services Ltd. announce Preferred Partners with Carlson Wagonlit Travel for 2012

Navarino Services are delighted to announce that once again Navarino Member Hotels participating in the CWT (Carlson Wagonlit Travel) Programme via Lanyon for 2012 will have Preferred Partnership Status.

This is a rare opportunity for Navarino members, offered by Navarino Services, in partnership with Sabre Hospitality Services, to gain Preferred Status with this Global Travel Management Company who only partner with a select number of Global Chains each year.

Preferred Status for Navarino Members includes:

Preferred weighting within the CWT booking tools - Meaning your hotel returns in a prominent position during accommodation searches, and is noted as a CWT Preferred Partner.

Access to CWT staff through call centre visits in North America & Canada - Face to Face visits with CWT agents booking for Global Clients including – Coca Cola, Capital One, BP, Ericsson, Morgan Stanley & France Telecom.

Access to quality data and production, additional advertising and marketing - Reporting on request and the option to undertake direct marketing to CWT Globally (additional charges may apply)

For further details or to take advantage of becoming a CWT Preferred Supplier via Navarino Services in 2012, please do not hesitate to contact sales@navarinoservices.com.

Navarino Services Offer new Google Opportunity

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:26:00 GMT

You may have seen the industry chatter over the past couple of months relating to a new product Google is releasing via Google Maps, set to compete with Global Meta-Search sites such as Kayak and Trivago.

Navarino Services is delighted to be part of an EXCLUSIVE number of providers who can now offer this product to their hotel membership!

Google Hotel Price Ads provides hotels with the opportunity to display their inventory and lowest daily rate directly onto Google Maps with a link back to their own Guest Connect Booking Engine Link (provided by Navarino Services).

Imagine the opportunity and distribution that comes with a live booking link, direct to your site, on Google - one of the leading search engines in the world!

A link on Google Hotel Price Ads helps you to drive consumers directly to your own website, bypassing expensive, high commission 3rd Party Booking Channels, increasing visibility of, and revenue production to, your own hotel website.

Don’t be left behind, this product is not available to individual hotels or groups and only via Global CRS’s such as Navarino Services, contact us now for more information: support@navarinoservices.com.

Consortia RFP Season Approaches

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:05:00 GMT

July & August traditionally herald the Consortia RFP Season which kick starts the main period of RFP’s (Requests For Pricing/Proposal) & negotiations for acceptance to Global Hotel Programmes for the following year. Are you ready for the 2012 season?

Now is the time when hotels should be updating their profiles within their chosen RFP Management Tools, discussing rate strategy and setting rates for 2012. Navarino Services offers a fully supported RFP Management Tool giving you access to bid in all Major Consortia and TMC (Travel Management Company) Hotel Programmes, as well as increasing your Corporate RFP opportunities.

Our team of experienced Account Managers will work with you to bring you the best opportunities available and can offer advice on the best programmes to suit your budget and targets for increasing revenue from the Global Travel Agent market in 2012.

Don’t miss the boat – contact us now – support@navarinoservices.com