News du 11/02/2010
FastBooking partners with LondonMarketing to market its London-based hotels
Paris – May 11, 2010 – FastBooking,one of the foremost providers of advanced Internet booking systems and e-marketing services for the hospitality industry, has joined forces with LondonTown.com and HotelMap, the leading London hotel booking services, to promote its client hotels in London. Through this alliance existing and future FastBooking client hotels equipped with the FastBooking engine have the technology to be booked live on LondonTown.com and HotelMap.com.
“Our strategy is not simply multiply the number of players but to develop a partnership approach favoring selectivity and the quality of the partners, hence the natural link with LondonTown.com and HotelMap, specialist in business and leisure tourism in London for the past 15 years,” says Alain Hirschfeld, FastBooking Marketing Director, Business Development.
LondonTown.com and HotelMap serve over 1.2 million customers each month. «London hotels using FastBooking benefit from simple incorporation into our real-time booking network without any additional costs. We have developed a specific FastBooking integration,» says Deborah Tyrer, Hotel Integration Manager at LondonTown.com, «which all new FastBooking clients can benefit from. LondonTown.com and HotelMap are famous for their live hotel booking networks which provides considerable benefit to the customer. If a hotel chooses to use FastBooking's technology it means that it is very easy for us to connect that hotel to our network and make it available in real-time to our customers.»
London is the second most visited city in the world with an estimated 14.8 million visitors per year (Paris, France is number one with 15.6 million annual visitors and Bangkok, Thailand is number three with 10.84 million visitors annually). The city also boasts the third highest ADR (€191) according to the ITB Travel Trends Report 2009/2010, prepared by IPK International.
FastBooking Press Contact
Deborah Gallin
Senior Press and Communications Manager
+33 1 44 71 88 83
dgallin@fastbooking.com
Deborah Tyrer
LondonTown.com Contact
+44 (0) 207 494 2020
deborah_tyrer@londontown.com
About FastBooking
Since 2000, FastBooking has been the preferred partner to hotelkeepers worldwide, driving more visitors to hotel
websites and converting these visitors to direct bookings. FastBooking products and services optimize a hotel’s business
by maximizing highly profitable direct website bookings, then rationalize inventory and pricing across all online sales
channels. The company even optimizes business through legacy GDS/IDS with a cost effective service.
Headquartered in Paris with subsidiaries in Italy, USA, Asia and India, the company has E. de Rothschild as its anchor
investor. It employs 160 persons worldwide and has gained the trust of more than 5200 hotel clients.
For more information, visit the FastBooking website at www.fastbooking.net
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