We are a worldwide hotel marketing company and provide solutions distribution and marketing services to independently owned hotels, lodges, resorts and palaces through a variety of distribution solutions such as GDS, IDS, propreitary websites & corp RFP.
Established in 1994 as one of the pioneers in the hospitality technology solutions space, International Vacation Hotels is an alliance of premium hotels, lodges, resorts and palaces. Each property is carefully selected for its dedication to excellence in hospitality and its exceptional facilities for both business and leisure travel.
International Vacation Hotels provides travel solutions to travel agencies, meeting planners, consumers and suppliers worldwide through marketing and reservation services to independently owned hotels and resorts through its proprietary distribution channels. Our approach to representing a hotel or resort is not "cookie cutter" but is addressed to the specific property's needs and its position in the market. We have processes and solutions in place to provide hotel and resort clients the opportunity for incremental room sales. These include:
• GDS - Global Distribution System. This provides connectivity to travel agencies worldwide through the four existing channels-Sabre, WorldSpan, Apollo-Gallileo/Travelport and Amadeus.
• IDS- Internet Distribution System. This provides connectivity directly to consumers through travel sites including Travelocity, Expedia, Priceline, Agoda, Booking.com, hotels.de and TravelNow, etc.
• Call Center. The Company operates a call center that provides live operators twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week for consumers, travel agents and hotel clients.
• Proprietary Websites - The Company maintains several websites to facilitate the sale of its hotel clients' product directly to consumers. It also has the expertise to create or upgrade a property's website and provide it with a booking engine to generate on-line direct sales.
• Hospitality Website Design - We will design or redesign your hotel website and power it with our proprietary booking engine so you will be able to accept online reservations right from your website. Our booking engine will provide online travelers to buy travel insurance and bundle air packages with the hotel booking.
• Website Booking Engine - We can power your hotel website with our proprietary booking engine so you will be able to accept online reservations right from your website. Our booking engine will provide online travelers to buy travel insurance and bundle air packages with the hotel booking.
By signing up for the International Vacation Hotels solution i.e. the Reservation ConciergeSM, you get a powerful online hospitality management solution that will help you distribute your room inventory to global travelers and agents simply by providing International Vacation with your hotel NET or STO rates. You eliminate the need for high investments, hardware and software development, and maintenance of huge hardware infrastructure, technical staff and complex logistics. International Vacation will plug directly into your hotel website and enable you to start accepting reservations from all the world instantly. The entire operation is hosted and maintained for you by International Vacation on a 24X7 basis. So, what are you waiting for? Sign up Now!
International Vacation offers its hotel partners for no upfront cost, a variety of Internet marketing and distribution solutions to market the hotel worldwide and accept global reservations.
International Vacation offers its hotel partners for no upfront cost:
Online Marketing Agency Solutions: we build your website, provide website design, online identity management, brand management, channel management
GDS Connectivity: through our switch, connect seamlessly to all 4 GDS (Sabre, Apollo, Worldspan, Amadeus) with access to 160,000 travel agents
IDS Connectivity: through our Internet channels connect to thousands of portals such as Expedia, Travelocity, Hotels.com, etc.
Web Booking Engine: integrate our state of the art booking engine on your own hotel website so you can accept reservations online
Reservations Concierge: we provide live reservations agent support for your bookings: we generate reservations, we qualify them, provide financial authorization, confirm, reconfirm, manage and support.
