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CultBooking launches for hoteliers

Hotel Booking Cultuzz Digital Media GmbH is providing a "free to download" hotel booking system as an Open Source product to hoteliers, owners of pensions, hotel chains and Destination Marketing Organisations.

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Travel Agency They can all utilise this product and sell rooms directly from their own web site without paying any fees. CultBooking is available on the platform www.sourceforge.net with its source code and under an open source license. Such a license permits anyone to study, change, and improve the software, and even to distribute the unmodified or modified system.

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Cheap Hotel CultBooking is used today by more than 300 hotels. The software is barrier-free design developed and includes all features a modern hotel booking software is expected to have. As a hotelier you can control your inventory anytime, from anywhere via an easy-to-use secure management area, you can 'close-out' rooms or complete time periods with only a few mouse clicks, you can allow corporate customers to buy rooms with a unique discount code, and you can even start revenue management to maximise your hotel's profitability.

"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."

Flight Booking A characteristic of CultBooking is the direct connectivity to numerous PMS and CRS systems such as: Velox, Medusa, Hotline, GMS, HotcheckWin and soon to be released Protel and HS/3. If a hotelier uses one of these systems, the availabilities and rates are supplied automatically from the hotel to their own web site and detailed reservations are returned via CultBooking automatically to the hotel. Therefore a key advantage for the user is a massive reduction in data administration, previously a costly and somewhat manual process that was often a source of errors.

Groople and SynXis have collaborated to develop the first fully automated group shopping and booking process. The result is that Groople users can seamlessly find and book available hotel rooms at participating hotels, including smaller chains and local inns. Until now, technology limitations required hotels to store rates and availability in their local reservation systems. This meant groups would need to call or fax the hotel in order to book reservations. Such an approach was not only prone to delays in communicating changes, but also extremely inefficient for hoteliers.

Travel Agent The developer of the software is Cultuzz Digital Media GmbH a leading technology and software provider to the international tourism industry. Cultuzz has additional ideas and features it will add to CultBooking continuously. By offering the source code for other developers the software will be improved constantly and shared with the broader tourism community. Based on PHP, MySQL and XML used in OTA standard (OTA = Open Travel Alliance) the system is completely royalty-free and perfect designed for today's web developers.

'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.

Hotel Chicago "Our motive for making the source code freely available is threefold" said Michael Hughes, Global Director of Sales & Marketing. "Firstly hoteliers shouldn't pay fees for bookings on their own website. Secondly the product developments will embrace international diversity, and thirdly the hoteliers who use the system will access a constantly growing global distribution network and Cultuzz also" continued Hughes.

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