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Global Booking Solutions to Bring Additional Power to the Caribbean

Hotel Booking The exponential growth of business coming from the internet in the travel and tourism industry is matched by an equally growing trend savvier, more demanding customers. To help Caribbean hoteliers stay on top of the game, Global Booking Solutions and the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) have signed a strategic alliance that will enable CHA member hotels to offer clients the ability to book hotel, air, and land, in real time, through the hotels own website.

Groople (www.groople.com), the leader in group travel planning, has partnered with Go10000, a travel focused development and hosting firm, to bring to market a new group collaboration site for the travel space. GroopVine will provide the solution to the complex communication and booking problems group travel planning can create. Enhancing the online travel space by combining the key elements of social networking such as invitations, forums, messaging, photos and video posting, with the best in online travel booking, GroopVine is the only place for group travelers to shop, plan and book together online.

Travel Agency Global Booking Solutions enables Caribbean small, medium, and large hotels to provide customers the ability to buy their complete vacation package without ever leaving the hotels website during the booking process. In this day and age, this can mean the difference between just looking and an actual booking, explained CHA Director General Alec Sanguinetti.

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Cheap Hotel What is more, because Global Booking Solutions has secured contract bulk fares from numerous carriers serving the Caribbean region for packaging with land, customers have access to exclusive low airfares.

Groople (www.groople.com), the leading online group travel booking and planning site, has partnered with Hotel Hotline (www.hotelhotline.com), an online hotel reservation site including the properties HotelHotline.com and HotelsCheap.org. Groople provides Hotel Hotline customers with the ability to search for and book group hotels that are appropriate for their group type. Groople's private label solution offers Hotel Hotline with a customized booking solution that satisfies the needs of their users. "Partnering with Groople gives Hotel Hotline access to dependable group booking technology and professional group travel customer service, " said Mike Stacy, CEO of Groople. "HotelsCheap knows the size and growth of the group market and sees Groople as the best way to tap into that market"

Flight Booking An important feature of the service is the control it gives hoteliers to manage their room rates and inventory, with no room allotments, in order to maximize their yield and margins.

8mong many firsts for the group market, the new technology platform enables consumers to do something that other sites haven k allowed to book travel and accommodations for more than five rooms in a single online session. Featuring more than 56, 000 hotels, including 7, time group rates, Groople is primed to become the industry largest automated solution for unmanaged group leisure travel, a market estimated at $18 billion to $24 billion. Under its hosted inventory and commission models, Groople generates group bookings niche by niche for hotels and plans to add air, car, cruise, bus and rail later this year.

Travel Agent This is a significant step in CHAs mission to advance Caribbean tourism, by helping the hotel sector to regain some measure of control in the distribution of the Caribbean tourism product, added Sanguinetti.

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Hotel Chicago Another benefit of the Global Booking Solutions program is that there are no cooperative advertising fees or tour operator fees; the hotel pays an annual membership fee based on hotel size and a booking transaction fee on the hotel component. The fee is only 11% for CHA hotels, an exclusive treatment which emphasizes the value of membership in CHA. The fee for non-CHA members goes up to 15%.

Online Booking Global Booking Solutions is a division of the Troni Marketing Group. It is led by President Bob Troni, a veteran airline executive, former Managing Director International Sales & Marketing of American Airlines.

Travel Health Insurance For the past 5 years, I've been hearing from numerous Caribbean hoteliers of the need for a system to offset the pressure and high cost of working with third parties to offer customers a vacation package at their hotels, explained Troni.

Hotel Reservation The major obstacle was the inability to offer the air component to those customers visiting the hotels website. Global Booking Solutions was established to meet these needs, so that hotels may Take Back Control of their rooms and rates at a much lower cost.

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