ITB Asia news 2024 - Day 1

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I NEWS I ADVERTORIAL RateHawk boosts travel businesses across Asia STAND T 070 RateHawk is here at ITB Asia demonstrating how it saves travel professionals time by delivering comprehensive services all in one place. As the travel industry evolves, agents face growing challenges in meeting increasingly demanding client expectations and needs. This is where RateHawk, an all-in-one B2B platform, part of the Emerging Travel Group, comes in as a game-changer. Offering a vast range of travel services, RateHawk is designed to streamline travel agents' work, saving them time and allowing them to focus on delivering tailored travel solutions to their clients. RateHawk’s standout feature is an extensive hotel inventory, one of the largest on the market. With over 2.6 million accommodation options sourced from 260 wholesalers and 100,000+ direct hotel contracts, RateHawk provides partners with a wide range of choices at competitive prices. In addition to hotels, RateHawk provides tickets from over 400 airlines, including 150 low-cost companies, transfers in more than 150 countries, as well as rail service across Europe. To enhance travel agents' confidence, RateHawk provides a Pre-Check service for each booking, ensuring manual confirmation with the hotel in advance, minimising potential incidents, and reducing stress. RateHawk allows travel professionals to book without any extra cost and offers various payment options. Partners can also easily adjust their commission to the net price provided through RateHawk. Travel agents looking to join the over 80,000 partners around the world who are already using RateHawk to elevate their business can meet RateHawk’s team responsible for Asia in the Travel Tech Asia zone at ITB Asia, or visit www.ratehawk.com and register for free 6 ITB ASIA NEWS • WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2024 itb-asia-news.com

ADVERTORIAL I NEWS I Exely's Rate Match for hoteliers: Price consistency across booking channels At ITB Asia, Exely is introducing the newest feature in its Booking Engine, Rate Match, which enables hotels to improve their price consistency and increase direct revenues. ITB Asia Visitors can discover Rate Match and other Exely solutions at the Exely stand STAND T 129 Rate Match is designed to empower hoteliers by ensuring pricing consistency across online booking channels. This innovative feature enhances hotels’ brand exposure, drives direct bookings, and solidifies guest trust through strategic pricing practices. Rate Match works by monitoring online travel agencies (OTAs) and website prices, and automatically aligning them to prevent disparities, which leads to more direct bookings. Additionally, unlike other tools, Rate Match syncs price changes directly with Google Free Booking Links. This unique feature allows hotels to display aligned prices right at the hotel search stage in Google, rather than just at the booking stage, enhancing brand exposure and driving more qualified traffic to their website. By using Rate Match, hotels can ensure they offer competitive prices and secure reservations from guests who have a tendency to compare between OTAs and hotel websites. Additionally, hotels are empowered to drive direct bookings and bypass high OTA commissions. With Exely Booking Engine, commission fees drop to just 4%, compared to 20% on many OTAs, improving both gross revenues and profit margins. This combination of increased visibility, higher direct sales, and cost savings makes Rate Match a gamechanger for hoteliers. ITB ASIA NEWS • WEDNESDAY 23 OCTOBER 2024 7