Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, presents its new and improved hotel partner portal MaxiRoom – a faster, smarter and easier-to-use extranet designed to drive maximum occupancy through Hotelbeds’ leading channels of distribution. MaxiRoom provides hoteliers’ with much greater autonomy and control. Created with the aim of significantly improving usability and functionality, MaxiRoom will help its partners easily optimize their performance across Hotelbeds’ worldwide markets and channels.
Highlights include a global dashboard providing hotel partners with a complete overview of all their inventory while allowing them to make instant adjustments to the presentation of their products.
Other functionalities include:
- Fully interactive calendar enabling changes to rates and room types.
- Intuitive content manager to easily update and rate the quality of an hoteliers’ content, images and offers.
- Mass update tool makes it fast and simple to update availability and pricing across multiple rate and room types.
- Intelligent alerts dynamically informs hotel partners of any sold dates, missing descriptions or images.
- Promotion manager allows users to directly and dynamically launch their own offers at any time.
Combined together, these features help to strengthen a properties performance across Hotelbeds’ worldwide channels of distribution, providing hotel partners with complete autonomy over the management of their content. Using these tools, MaxiRoom significantly simplifies the management of properties in their system by breaking down key processes into easy and transparent steps.
MaxiRoom also helps its partners to remain more competitive by providing a simple snapshot view of how they are performing in a range of aspects against their local competitors making it a straightforward process to optimize their offers and content to improve performance.
In addition, the platform enables hoteliers to make informed decisions over their pricing strategy by enabling easy access to information on their production by source market and distribution channel as well as the demand performance on specific dates.
MaxiRoom has been established in line with Hotelbeds’ new focus on driving simplicity across the travel value chain under the banner “We love simple.” MaxiRoom comes on the heels of the launch at World Travel Market of APItude, Hotelbeds new hotel distribution API. Like MaxiRoom, the new distribution API has been redesigned from the ground up to be significantly simpler, faster and smarter than the industry average. This is all part of Hotelbeds drive to fuse technological innovation with simplicity, to benefit the travel industry while also adapting to the evolving needs of partners, clients and consumers.
Javier Arevalo, Product Director of Hotelbeds stated “Our fresh focus to redesign our processes and platforms to be as simple and intuitive as possible is paying dividends. The new MaxiRoom platform has been embraced by the sector with much enthusiasm. Feedback has been highly positive with many partners rating MaxiRoom as the best in its class.”
