Thursday, December 22, 2011

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

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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