Partnership Travel Consulting is teaming up with CTS Systems,
Fare Audit and Yapta for its new HotelroomRx solution to offer clients hotel
compliance, rate integrity and commission management services.
Though corporates have long had the ability to sign up with
the three technology providers individually, HotelroomRx now gives PTC clients
the opportunity to access them as a bundle. "They're mutually complementary,"
said PTC founder and CEO Andrew Menkes, "each one focusing on the hotel
segment but each one addressing a different part of it."
As part of the module, Fare Audit will audit the
hotel-rate-loading process, catching incorrectly loaded rates, rate squatters
and properties not honoring last room availability. It also will suggest
comparable preferred rates on noncompliant bookings. Yapta's RoomIQ technology
will find lower rates for travelers at the same property and will lend its data
analytics and benchmarking information to HotelroomRx. CTS will track
commissions on non-net rates.
Menkes said PTC is serving as the technology aggregator,
taking on the implementation costs that typically would be charged by the
technology providers. "There are some economies of scale for us to do
three vendors for one client. Those suppliers pay PTC a reseller fee for doing
the work on their behalf, so it's the same price for the customer."
Additionally, PTC will use the data provided by
each of the technology partners to advise clients throughout their hotel
season.
Correction: An earlier version of this story stated
that Yapta would suggest comparable preferred properties on noncompliant hotel
bookings. Instead, Yapta searches same-property bookings for lower rates and
Fare Audit suggests preferred properties on noncompliant bookings. CTS tracks
commissions on non-net rates, not all hotel rates.