CCRA Travel Solutions Enhances Hotel Booking Portal

CCRA Travel Solutions has enhanced the CCRAtravel.com hotel booking portal to gain a competitive edge and earn more profits faster. The new features that make this web-based hotel content provider the perfect solution for smaller agencies and home-based agents.

The portal offers real-time rates and availability at over 160,000 hotels worldwide; the ability to select from five different rate categories, which are made available on one single search; and up to 15 percent commission on an extensive inventory of hotel rooms around the world. In addition, CCRA now reconciles bookings made through CCRAtravel.com and pays commissions earned on a weekly basis.

These newly improved CCRAtravel.com programs were designed to offer the perfect alternative to qualified agents who do not have access to the GDS, but wish to book competitive rates for their clients at no additional cost. Registration for CCRAtravel.com is free for agents with a valid travel ID.

The five rate categories include CCRA negotiated rates; GDS rates; Internet discounted rates; net rates and the new, 15 percent Enhanced Commission rate. Additionally, many CCRA travel suppliers provide agents with preferred rates and exclusive promotions that are only available for bookings made on CCRAtravel.com.

In addition to the new 15 percent Commission/Express program, another popular booking option is the Net Rate Markup feature that allows agents to set their own, marked-up commission on non-refundable net rates. Agents can mark up this rate to whatever the market will bear, but no more than 100 percent of the net price.

What sets the CCRA portal apart from any other hotel booking engine is the fact that http://www.ccratravel.com/ consolidates rates and inventory from a variety of vendors, and makes the them available in a single search.

Agents are thus presented with a variety of rate categories for each hotel selected, and can easily choose the room type, amenities, rates and restrictions that will be best for their client and most profitable for them.