Sabre added capabilities to its request-for-proposals tool to combat hotel rate squatting

and to allow hotels not on global distribution systems to compete for corporate negotiated business, the company announced Monday. The squatter rate audit feature seeks out nonpreferred hotels that load rates as preferred for a corporate program, potentially undercutting volume and more favorable rates at preferred hotels. The other feature, the Non-GDS Portal, lets hotels off the GDSs respond to travel buyer RFPs and compete for unsolicited bids when they are in the appropriate location and quality level for corporate needs, according to Sabre.