HRS, the global leading hotel portal for corporate customers, has entered right into a distribution agreement with GetThere, a world technology company serving corporations and brand of Sabre.
The 250,000 hotels affiliated to HRS could be available by the tip of April to GetThere’s global corporate customers it doesn’t matter what global distribution system they use. HRS offers detailed and positive hotel information in 32 languages in addition to flexible and customer friendly booking conditions.
“Working with GetThere complements our systematic multi-channel strategy and should mean all GetThere corporate customers can get pleasure from our wide hotel portfolio instantly. From the hotel’s perspective, the relationship to GetThere, will allow another global distribution channel with extended coverage particularly within the huge US market, where Sabre is the undisputed market leader within the managed corporate segment. A win-win situation for all parties,” says HRS Chief Executive Officer Tobias Ragge.
HRS and GetThere believe hoteliers will benefit as their properties will now have even greater exposure via GetThere’s thousands of corporate customers, including a majority of the Fortune 200, in 95 countries. Every month 5 million unique users visit the company travel reservation system to go looking and book a business journey. In 2012 GetThere managed greater than $9.5 billion in business travel spend.
“HRS has any such vast and unique range of hotels that we all know can be of significant value to our customers,” says Suzanne Neufang, President of GetThere. “We watch for working with HRS to bring the handiest choice of hotels to corporations worldwide.”