07/10-10   -   Press releases

budgetplaces.com is looking for new hotel partners worldwide

The budget hotel booking portal is now connected to the Cubilis channel manager, the latest partnership in support of budgetplaces.com’s strategy to increase the number of its partner hotels.

budgetplaces.com is the leading booking portal for worldwide budget accommodation. Nearly 5,000 partner establishments in over 150 destinations are already collaborating with the experts in low-cost accommodation, and budgetplaces.com keeps reaching out for new partners. The integration with the Cubilis channel manager marks a milestone in the budget expert’s expansion strategy.

“Integration with channel managers is a crucial element in recruiting new hotel partners and we are working daily on adding new channel manager providers to our list. The integration with Cubilis and other channel managers has been an important step in reaching out to new partners and further increases our offer of budget accommodation", says Paul Lupson, Technical Director & Web Operations Manager at budgetplaces.com.

Cubilis is the newest addition to the list of channel managers that budgetplaces.com works with. Rate Tiger, Availpro, Figaro and Hotel Spider amongst others, are some of the channel managers that budgetplaces.com has integrated with. By connecting via a channel manager, hoteliers and establishment owners can update their rates and availability via one central system and offer their rooms on both their own website and through booking portals like budgetplaces.com. Further advantages of working with budgetplaces.com include no set-up fee, no end-of-month billing and a user friendly extranet.

Hoteliers who are interested in offering their rooms on budgetplaces.com can get in touch directly via e-mail at production (AT) budgetplaces.com. Further information for potential hotel partners can be found at http://www.budgetplaces.com/add-your-establishment/. Channel managers interested in integrating with budgetplaces.com, please visit http://www.budgetplaces.com/hotel-channel-managers.html.


About budgetplaces.com

budgetplaces.com, part of the EnGrande network, is an on-line booking platform for centrally located, quality accommodation at budget rates. The Barcelona based company offers nearly 5,000 establishments of different categories in over 150 destinations. This means 75,000 hotel beds available at very reasonable rates in the most popular tourist destinations such as Barcelona, London, Paris and Madrid.

budgetplaces.com aims for a target rate of 30 Euros per person, per night, saving travellers an estimated 37 per cent compared to the European average daily accommodation rate (ADR). budgetplaces.com is expanding rapidly, adding more establishments every day and regularly opening up new destinations. More than 21,000 reservations are processed every month and the EnGrande websites register more than 1.2 million hits per month. The forecast turnover for 2010 is 60 million Euros.

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