TTG Adds Features To ResAssist, Highlighter
<B> TTG Adds Features To ResAssist, Highlighter</B>
Travel Technologies Group this week is releasing a new version of its ResAssist corporate booking tool, offering 17 new features, including trip templates, multiple air travel policy settings, trip authorization option and enhanced fare rules.
Debuting at BTN's Corporate Travel World show in New York today, ResAssist 4.0 includes trip modeling which allows travelers or administrators to build a template from scratch or by modifying an existing trip. Companies can easily use the feature to set up a trip model for a meeting.
An administrator can assign a particular itinerary date window, even specifying flights, hotels and car rentals as a unique trip. What's more, the system can be set up to only book the trip when the cost of the flight and/or hotel is below a designated amount. If an attempt to book is met by an "error" response due to excessive costs, a message can be sent to the travel manager, said Michael Brophy, spokesman for the Dallas-based technology subsidiary of World Travel Partners/BTI Americas.
In the last version released in October, TTG focused on increasing the speed of the product. Now, the enhancements are designed to give travelers and travel managers the features they've requested, such as the ability to book cars one-way, search for hotels using an airport or downtown site as a reference point and load graphics directly to a company directory. Among those requesting some features is Worldspan, which private labels ResAssist as Trip Manager. The enhancements will be reflected in a new version of Trip Manager shortly.
TTG also will be showcasing a new version of its CRS Screen Highlighter, software that allows agencies or corporate onsites to highlight preferred vendors or flights. Among the new features in this offering are simple ways for managers to program the software to display negotiated fares based on account numbers, customer numbers and/or city codes and the ability to program the highlighter to launch a script or application to reduce the number of keystrokes. The new version also has been redesigned as a point-of-sale reference tool for agents, offering them access to multiple airline phone numbers, basic visa information, unused E-ticketing data and other important customer-related items, without accessing GDS profiles and thus incurring hit charges.