TravelClick and Worldwide Payment Systems have teamed up to offer a commission-tracking system, with the expectation of increasing and speeding up commission payments to travel agencies booking hotels in the GDSs.
TravCom said it has become the first vendor of travel agency accounting systems to link to eCommission Solutions’ Kalypso commission-tracking tool.
OpenTravel Alliance’s FastRez software is expected cut hospitality industry developer’s implementation time by 50 percent.
Travelocity’s ExperienceFinder, its vacation planning tool that allows visual exploration of 28 destinations, is now easier to access thanks to the new “Plan My Trip” tab recently introduced to Travelocity’s homepage. Additionally, several other enhancements have been made to the ExperienceFinder trip planning tool that give travelers more information when planning their dream vacation.
The advent of two viable mobile computing platforms (the iPhone and BlackBerry Storm) is being tipped to have a catalytic effect upon the use of mobile travel applications.
Hotel.mobi has launched http://www.hotel.mobi/, a web directory allowing mobile users to find hotels near their current location and directly call the hotels’ booking desks in one single click. Hotel.mobi is a portal run by Quinv SA.