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Quick Cruise booking engine launches

Hotel Booking Holiday I.T. is launching a new booking engine, Quick Cruise, that enables profitable and efficient processing of cruise bookings.

Groople In the News Groople Introduces First Online Booking Engine For Group Cruises Denver, August 17, Groople, the leading online group travel resource, rolls out the first online group cruise booking engine, allowing cruisers to research, book and manage their group bookings online with six of the world top cruise lines. Through Groople.com, groups requesting eight or more staterooms can also tap into special group rates and amenities, which sometimes include a free stateroom.

Travel Agency The key to the systems success is the Quotation Builder and the Package Builder. Quotation Builder enables agents to build an individual cruise quotation by selecting a range of products. Agents can select the cabin, flight, hotel and car hire elements of the booking separately and create a tailored package from a range of fare bases; including net, commissionable and non-commissionable elements. The system then calculates commission across a range of currencies enabling agents to select the most competitive price and ensure their profit margins are not eroded.

Groople In the News Groople Selected by Bizbash as Provider for Group Travel Bookings June 1, BiZBash, the preeminent resource for the event planning industry, today announces a partnership with Groople.com, making Groople the exclusive online group travel partner for BiZBash's thousands of event professionals. BiZBash users now have Groople's group travel tools, with the unique ability to research and make group travel arrangements online. While most travel booking sites don't allow for group reservations at all, through BiZBash, hotel bookings for 5 rooms or hundreds of rooms are now simple to book and include special group rates. With an initial offering of hotels, the service will expand to offer airfare, cruise, car and rail bookings online. free number ( 4316) is available for arranging air, cruise, car and rail, as well as more complicated hotel requests.

Cheap Hotel The Package Builder can be pre-built for selection facilitating faster user entry in the Quotation Builder and ensuring agents can maximise profits with preferred partners where appropriate. Any discrepancies between the original package price and the individual quotation can be adjusted accordingly. Ensuring the more profitable of the two will be sold.

'Split Payment' On Holidays Launched For The First time Online Expedia.co.uk today becomes the first online travel agent to allow customers to split the payment on their holiday bookings in a move to give greater flexibility and choice for travellers and enabling people to travel at an affordable price. Customers booking an Expedia flight and hotel or flight, hotel and car package will be given an option to pay a deposit rather than having to find the full cost of the holiday at the time of booking, making it easier and more affordable than ever for people to let themselves go on holiday in 2006.

Flight Booking In addition, Quick Cruise has a seamless booking transition saving agents valuable time between the quotation and booking as past quotations can be saved in the system and are automatically checked before the booking proceeds. Agents can set reminders to complete the booking process such as following up on quotations, chasing passport details and ensuring tickets have been received. There is a facility to create client profiles and save past bookings that can be integrated with new bookings. The accounting system is integrated as is the reporting and suppliers terms and conditions, which back up the accounting end of the system. Finally all the client details can be easily accessed for marketing purposes.

"Groople and Avis Budget Group continue to lead innovation in the industry with the launch of our group rental car product. The rapid growth in booking travel online and the size of the group travel segment is driving demand for group based travel tools, " said Mike Stacy, chief executive officer of Groople. "We have demonstrated our leadership in group hotels, breaking tool for cars, which will make their travel planning and booking much easier."

Travel Agent The first retailer to use the system is Anthony Blackmore, Managing Director of Cruise365.com, he said: We chose to work with Holiday IT in a three way pitch as it became clear to us that the company could offer us a bespoke solution. In the past our technology choices have been restricted by existing systems that we had to work around, rather than providing systems that worked around us. Quick Cruise has provided us with something that is future proof and works under the new regime of travel. The system is user friendly for all the end users in our business, from reservations to accounting and management to marketing in a fast and efficient way. The right technology is crucial to the success of a business and Holiday I.T. delivered an effective solution on time and on budget.

As the premier online booking resource for the $20+ billion leisure group travel market, Groople provides group rates and inventory, allowing consumers to easily plan, book and manage all group travel needs in a single setting. In addition to more than 60, 000 hotels and six major cruise lines, Groople also offers group bookings for air, car, bus and rail.

Hotel Chicago Holiday I.T. prides itself on offering bespoke solutions for the travel industry Alan Crampton, Director of Holiday I.T., commented: We are delighted with the initial success of Quick Cruise, the system is very versatile and we can tailor it to suit individual agent requirements. The cruise industry is going through some big changes at the moment, not all elements offer strong commission by breaking down the booking elements in this way we can maximise agent profits.

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