FastBooking - the expert in hotel booking solutions on the Internet - has developed a monitoring tool to enable hoteliers to position their rates more effectively in relation to their competitors and to increase their reactivity in the face of market developments.
In order to provide concrete responses to their clients' needs, FastBooking has developed FastBooking Checker, a monitoring solution which enables hoteliers to compare their rates on an automatic and daily basis with those applied by their competitors on the main Internet booking sites (Expedia.com, Opodo.com, Lastminute.com...), the IDS and the hotels websites.
Totally automated competitive monitoring
FastBooking Checker makes it possible to analyze in real time the rates applied by competitor hotels on any Internet communication medium: distribution portals, IDS or naturally the hotels' own websites.
The competitive monitoring operation is carried out without quitting the screen, via a simple personalized interface that can be accessed on line using a login and password.
This tool therefore allows hotel industry managers to set up optimized rate strategies by providing a more transparent view of the various hotel distribution platforms.
Over and above the fine-tuning of its market view 'this tool will save hoteliers a vast amount of time by providing an instrument which makes for effortless coordination of a coherent Internet rating strategy' comments Soraya Kefs, FastBooking's Executive Director of Technical Services.
Advanced functionalities
There is precision analysis of the different offers, as FastBooking Checker has the added advantage of comparing the comparable (i.e. rates excluding or inclusive of tax, with or without additional costs)...). And that's not all. It also offers configuration of e-mail alerts (triggered when a competitor displays rates below a set limit, for instance), visualization of the analyzed Web pages , graph displays of results, report scheduling and data archiving.
FastBooking Checker is not only a competitive monitoring tool; it is also used by Sales Directors and Managers to obtain a global view of their own rates on the Internet. With it they can actually check the conformity of their own Internet rates, configured by the teams in charge of updating the various distribution platforms, quickly and on a single screen.
The Classic, Pro and Expert versions: FastBooking Checker adapts to every kind of hotel
FastBooking Checker is marketed on an annual subscription basis and is available in 3 versions, Classic, Pro and Expert, each characterized by the number of hotels and sites involved and the types of analysis which can be configured.
The starting price for the first version is 950 € per year (excluding installation fees) and a tapering rate is applied for groups of over 10 hotels.
FastBooking Checker is yet another illustration of FastBooking's ongoing determination to design and develop tools to make the hotelier's life simpler and more straightforward.
This is one of the latest facilities on offer from FastBooking and is exclusively reserved for hotels already using the FastBooking Engine on their websites.
About FastBooking
FastBooking (www.fastbooking.com) is a service company dedicated to helping independent hotels develop their Internet sales. To achieve this, the first vital stage involves installing the FastBooking Engine on their website. This real time booking engine with its multiple functionalities makes it possible to generate bookings that can be immediately and automatically confirmed.
FastBooking has set up a whole technical infrastructure for hoteliers by developing tools precisely adapted to their needs and guaranteeing a constant crossover of skills by teams with proven IT and hotel expertise.
With the search engine for Internet Yield Management at the heart of the device, a whole global program of Internet development becomes available to hoteliers: multi-hotel CRS, representation on the GDS/IDS, Call Center interface, distribution portals (www.hotels-paris.fr, www.hotels-direct-london.com, www.hotels-direct-rome...), loyalty E-mailing, automated competitive monitoring and simultaneous multi-site updating.
FastBooking has a portfolio of 3 000 hotels all over the world, all of which use FastBooking Engine on their websites.
FastBooking also has subsidiaries in Singapore and New York and a Representative Office in Venice, Italy.
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