Hotel Platform – Channel Hub Transform my distribution reach

The sales opportunities generated by your distribution channels are extremely attractive, but the cost and expertise required

to build and maintain multiple interfaces from your CRS to external partners is often prohibitive. Amadeus Hotel Platform –

Channel Hub is your “window to the world.” With a single link, you can connect to numerous channels, expanding your

business efficiently and cost-effectively.

Amadeus Hotel Platform – Channel Hub

Amadeus Hotel Platform is a centralized hotel management solution

that transforms hoteliers’ IT and distribution capabilities. A core

component of Amadeus Hotel Platform, Channel Hub is the

multichannel distribution solution.

Amadeus Hotel Platform – Channel Hub connects your hotels to a

multitude of distribution channels and lets you centrally manage

which sales partners you choose to work with and how. Channel

Hub has built-in interfaces to online travel agencies, travel websites,

metasearch engines and GDSs, offering direct connectivity to these

channels.

By expanding your distribution reach, you can create new audiences

for your hotel products, maximizing occupancy levels, room sales

and bottom-line profitability.

Key features

One interface > A single interface connecting you to a wide variety of

channels is instantly more cost-effective to implement

and maintain.

> Minimal in-house technical expertise and investment

required, since Channel Hub manages new channel

implementations.

> Faster time to market when implementing new

business functions and adding distribution channels.

Content delivery > Channel Hub operates seamlessly with Amadeus Hotel

Platform – Content Management, to simultaneously

exchange rates, availability, textual and multimedia

content to all selected distribution channels.

OpenTravel industry standards > System interoperability enables faster channel

implementations.

> Consistent standards are maintained in concert with

technology evolution.

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Business expansion and new revenue generation

> Expand your distribution reach to a wide range of indirect

sales channels.

> Grow your brand on a global scale with minimal effort

and investment.

> Reach new audiences and tap unexplored revenue sources.

Operational and cost efficiencies

> Centrally manage your distribution strategy and tactics from a

single application that is both quick and easy to deploy.

> Benefit from the expertise and experience of a trusted IT partner

to manage multiple new channels’ implementation projects –

on a global scale.

> Enjoy fast deployment of new CRS business functionalities across

all sales channels.

> Avoid the extensive connectivity costs and technical requirements

needed to interface your CRS to multiple distribution channels.

How will your business benefit?

Amadeus Hotel Platform –

Channel Hub

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Contact us

For more information about Amadeus Hotel Platform – Channel Hub please contact:

hospitalitymarketing@amadeus.com or visit: www.amadeus.com/hotelit

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