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Al Safir Hotel & Tower Found its Perfect Hotel Technology Partner with RateTiger

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Al Safir Hotel & Tower Found its Perfect Hotel Technology Partner with RateTiger

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24-hour

business center

193

stylishly designed deluxe rooms

4 Star

Luxury property

The Story of Al Safir Hotel

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Located in the heart of Bahrain's vibrant Juffair entertainment district, Al Safir believes in providing every guest with a stay of royalty. The property features 193 stylishly designed deluxe rooms, suites and apartments. Al Safir manifests a legacy with the motive of “service before self”.

Al Safir is a modern luxury hotel known for providing unmatched guest service without compromising on warmth and quality. It is the gateway to a spectacular location that offers exotic experiences, cozy hospitality and a stay for royalty.

It is proud to be the first hotel in the Kingdom of Bahrain to be awarded Six Sigma Certification & three ISO / IMS certificates.

At the same time, they knew they needed a Hotel Channel Manager, Booking Engine and other hospitality solutions to handle the flow of online bookings. So they were looking for unified hotel management software and service provider. Hence, they decided to switch to RateTiger- hotel management solution provider.

What were the Constraints?

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The hospitality industry is undergoing a significant change in how it works with the advent of digital technology and the internet. As online booking became the norm, Al Safir realized that they needed to increase their online presence, optimize their website for search engines, and target social media and other digital channels to reach potential guests.

Multi-way Connectivity Solution

Hoteliers struggled to manage reservations from various sources because there was no connection between their PMS (property management system) and the website. They were looking for a solution to simplify their struggles with managing reservations from multiple platforms.

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Here’s What Really Happened

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With RateTiger's integrated technology solution, Al Safir was poised to attract this influx of tourists and had all the tools to capture and manage this demand via the website and OTA channels.

Now they were able to validate room rate accuracy across all channels by analysing competitor room rates and price positioning across multiple hotel websites, metasearch, and online travel agencies (OTAs).

Results Achieved

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Instant Rate and Availability Update

With the instant automated update of rates and availability across all channels, they got their way to speedy updates: the key to a winning sales strategy.

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Connectivity

The ability to connect PMS to all distribution channels has allowed the team to make faster updates across all channels and better manage room rates and availability.

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Room Price Decision

Stay in tune with market rates by keeping a tab on competitors' prices with Rate Shopper. This helped them take smart pricing decisions with room rate analysis.

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Boost Direct Bookings

Reduce dependency and increase sales and revenue by increasing the number of direct bookings. It helped them maximize direct bookings with minimum risk and effort.

What Our Client has to Say

“We have been using RateTiger Shopper for rate benchmarking as well as to maintain rate parity. We save a lot of time as we can make pricing decisions by reviewing the on-demand rate reports. It’s important to ensure that our rates remain competitive in the market and to have the benefit of maintaining rate stability during high and low periods to increase demand. RateTiger Shopper makes it possible for us to optimize our pricing strategy through effectively responding to the dynamic changes in the market,”
Mr. Retheesh Kumar
General Manager, Al Safir Hotel & Tower.
 
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Hotel Beacon continues to be “The Jewel of the Upper West” with RateTiger Online Distribution Solutions

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Hotel Beacon continues to be “The Jewel of the Upper West” with RateTiger Online Distribution Solutions

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Founded in

1928

Studios & Suites

278

Dedicated

Business Center

24/7

Fitness Center

How Did the Story Begin?

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Hotel Beacon in New York City, known as the jewel of the Upper West is a heritage property visited by top-class luxury and business travelers. The hotel has gained its status as “the benchmark of providing personalized service and experience at every turn.”

With the changing time and online reservations becoming the top source of revenue for the hotel industry, Hotel Beacon needed a tech-savvy hotel management solution to maintain its position. They were looking for a digital platform with 2-way XML connectivity and real-time data update features to cater to their guests from all corners of the world. Thereby, they found their solution with RateTiger Hotel Channel Manager.

Challenges Faced:

Highly Competitive US Hotel Industry

Speaking of technology, United States has always been on the top! To survive and back their position in this ever-evolving US hotel industry, Hotel Beacon needed a fast and reliable hotel channel manager. Speedy update across all online sales channels was the need of the hour to survive the competition.

Real-time Rates and Availability Updates

Spreading its wings to multiple OTAs and other sales channels, Hotel Beacon required a software that would update the availability and rate details, in real-time across all channels.

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Here’s What Really Happened

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With RateTiger Hotel Channel Manager, this upscale property in New York was able to maintain its benchmark of providing personalized services and experiences to all guests. Directing all the bookings from different online travel sites into their Infor HMS Property Management System with RateTiger, Hotel Beacon was able to leverage technology to expand online sales and distribution.

“RateTiger was founded with a hotelier’s vision and their technology has enabled our team to focus on delivering a great guest experience.”

Results Achieved:

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360-degree View of Market Insights

Data captured in RateTiger enables the team to unlock real-time insights on demand trends and deliver rich insights for better decision-making.

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Seamless Connectivity Across All Channels

Connecting all their sales channels to the hotel’s PMS, Hotel Beacon’s online sales soared to new heights with the simple, easy-to-use RateTiger Channel Manager Interface with 99.9% product uptime.

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Instant Rate and Availability Update

With instant automated update of rates and availability across all channels, they got their way to speedy updates: the key to a winning sales strategy.

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Delivering Faster Customer Experience

The advantage of automated updates across all OTAs and booking channels with one click helped the team focus on delivering a faster customer experience with 24*7 customer support.

What our client has to say

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“We’ve been using RateTiger Channel Manager for more than six years, it is simply outstanding. The interface is very easy to use, the automated inventory is time saving, and we can spend more time on analytics and strategy. When I used RateTiger for the first time, it gave me the full support needed from the channel manager. With RateTiger, I can manage hundreds of channels, all in a single user-friendly interface.”

Milja Perkovic

Director of Revenue Management, Hotel Beacon NYC

 
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Novel Hotel City Center: An upscale property in Abu Dhabi experiences 90% growth in occupancy with RateTiger

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Novel Hotel City Center: An upscale property in Abu Dhabi experiences 90% growth in occupancy with RateTiger

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4 star

Property

207

Rooms

90%

Occupancy

How did the story begin?

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Designed to offer a nice getaway to the city for exceptionally relaxing stays catering to both corporate and leisure guests, Novel Hotel City Center had limited resources due to the pandemic. Being present in the busiest city of Abu Dhabi and with the travel reopening, the hotel knew they had to rebuild their strategy to bounce back to business.

They knew that increasing presence on top OTAs was the call of the moment. Along with this, they also knew that they needed a smart channel management platform to automate the flow of reservations. The hotel was aware of the current scenario and the problems. But, what they were looking for was a one-in-all hotel management software/ service provider.

Challenges faced by the hotel

The struggle to expand their online presence

OTAs were becoming the major source of hotel reservations and Novel City Center had its presence on only 3 OTAs. The team was aware of how essential expanding their online listing was to maintain their position in the market and attract new bookings. Due to lack of an automated hotel management system, manually managing 3 channels already seemed a daunting task and the question of expanding their digital presence was beyond possible.

Rate Parity between existing & new online booking sites

Novel Hotel City Center was managing their distribution channels manually updating the extranets. They were facing issues with regards maintaining rate parity across booking channels as well as managing room availability effectively. Due to lack of real-time connectivity to their sales channels, they were lagging in updating the rates and availability across the available channels.

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How did they find the solution?

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The Novel Hotel City Center team led by Mr. Akber Bana found the perfect solution to their problems with RateTiger. Using RateTiger Channel Manager, the hotel has been able to improve their online presence to Abu Dhabi and beyond, by integrating with multiple volume producing OTAs which means more visibility and increased bookings.

The 2-way XML connectivity helped them keep the reservations flowing and expand into new markets. RateTiger helped them to streamline their business processes and eliminate the struggle of overbookings and manual errors in rate and inventory management. This helped them to place a greater focus on guest experience and satisfaction.

Results Achieved

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Market Expansion

Expanding their visibility across multiple OTAs was the key requirement of Novel Hotel City Center. Leveraging RateTiger's seamless 2-way XML connectivity to 450+ leading global and regional channels including key ones in the Middle East, they came back to business with a bang.

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Real-time ARI updates

With RateTiger Channel Manager and related services, they were able to manage online distribution from one central dashboard. Free flow of data across all channels gave them the benefit to update room rates and availability once for all in real-time.

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Zero manual error

Automating the process of data update, now able to maintain real-time rates, availability, and receive reservations directly into their PMS without any manual intervention, reduced the chance of error to zero.

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Revenue Maximization

Overcoming their biggest challenge of being present only on limited OTAs especially in the key city of Abu Dhabi, the team was able to save time and focus better on guest experience and other services which brought in more sales.

What our client has to say

“With RateTiger, we have managed to take our occupancy to 90%. Their 2-way integration between our PMS and multiple global and regional OTAs have ensured that we sell on the right channels that bring business to our city. The speed, accuracy, and ease with which we can manage our online operations is fantastic. Further, the Promotions feature has helped us improve visibility on key sales channels which resulted in better RevPAR. I highly recommend RateTiger to other hoteliers for seamless online distribution in the Middle East Market.”
Akber Bana
Cluster Revenue Manager, Novel Hotel City Center
 
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The Venue Jeddah Corniche Witnesses 37% Increased Bookings Via RateTiger

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The Venue Jeddah Corniche Witnesses 37% Increased Bookings Via RateTiger

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5 star

Luxury property

Premium

Arabian Hospitality

37% increase

Reservations

12 million SAR

Revenue Growth

How did all this start?

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Saudi Arabia has always been one of the most attractive tourist destination welcoming millions of guests every season! Managing room bookings and synchronisation across all OTAs had always been a challenge for the hoteliers over here.

The Venue Jeddah Croniche at the heart of the Jeddah waterfront was struggling with handling bookings from different sources.

With no direct 2-way link between the hotel’s PMS and third-party sites, they were losing a huge amount of time, assets and resources in managing OTAs individually.

Problems faced by The Venue Jeddah Corniche

Increased Dependency On Manpower

Individually tracking and updating data across all OTAs increased the workload and dependency on the team.

No Direct Way To Control Distribution

The team was struggling to handle multiple bookings from several OTAs. Due to lack of instant updates, they had stages of under bookings and over bookings.

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How did it start solving?

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The Venue Jeddah Corniche signed up for RateTiger Channel Manager and Booking Engine for managing online distribution and improving direct bookings.

RateTiger provided them with 2-way XML connectivity between their Micros PMS with as many OTAs as they wanted.

All they had to do is update the context once in their PMS to let it flow and sync across all the OTAs automatically, with no manual intervention required.

The Venue Jeddah suggests RateTiger for its all-in-one fabulous online distribution’’

Results they experienced

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Automated Reservation Management

Avail the highest standard of Channel Management and speed to manage reservations directly from PMS.

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Improved Direct Bookings

Reduce dependency and increase sales and revenue by increasing direct bookings via RateTiger Booking Engine.

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Know Your Competitors

With real-time and accurate shopping reports, get an instant notification of the competitor’s price change and act correspondingly.

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Error-free, Quick Updates

Directly & efficiently manage and update online rates, inventory, and reservations for error-free booking experience.

What our client has to say

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“We are delighted to have RateTiger as our connectivity partner – it is a great investment that has given us very good ROI. Over the past couple of years, our reservations have grown by 37% which translates to over 12 million SAR! RateTiger has the highest quality of channel connections and the speed, accuracy, and ease with which we can manage our online operations is fantastic.”
Anas Arjawi
Revenue & E-commerce Manager, The Venue Jeddah Corniche
 
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The Wolcott Hotel in New York improves online sales with RateTiger

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The Wolcott Hotel in New York improves online sales With RateTiger

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200

Rooms

110 years

Service

Heritage

Independent property

5 years+

Using RateTiger

What’s the Problem?

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With leisure tourists coming from around the world, the revenue management team had to deal with a diverse guest portfolio and go beyond traditional way to incorporate the increasing new demands of traveller and stay ahead of the competitors.

Managing inventory without the presence of a channel manager was becoming difficult as it was time-consuming and used up a lot of resources in manual processes.

What were the Constraints?

Managing diverse guest portfolio

Largely driven by leisure tourists, both domestic and international visiting New York, it was important for the hotel to be present in all leading online sales channels and metasearch sites which was next to impossible in the absence of a trusted channel manager.

Pandemic Situation

Faced with travel restrictions and a fast-changing market, the revenue management team had to realign its strategy and take a data-driven approach for which they required the right technology solutions.

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Here’s what really happened

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RateTiger’s compatibility with most OTAs and travel sites helped Wolcott Hotel to step up their game. They connected to meta sites via RateTiger to improve direct bookings.

Using RateTiger Channel Manger, rates can be updated from one location. New websites coming up meant more updates but with RateTiger, everything could be updated from one place only saving the hotel an immense amount of time, allowing the sales and reservation team to focus on revenue management.

With lockdowns worldwide because of Covid-19, Wolcott implemented a new sales strategy to bring back the hotel where it was - as top producers in NYC. With add-ons that RateTiger provides, the hotel could promptly and effectively change rates in a very volatile market.

What does success look like?

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Effective Time Management

Less time spent manually updating rates and availability across multiple distribution channels.

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Efficient Inventory Management

Remove the risk of error and over booking through automated, real-time inventory updates.

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Quick Decision Making

Improved distribution decision making by having a single dashboard for performance reporting.

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More Occupancy, Increased Revenue

Updating their strategy with time, they bounced back to business with a significant rise in reservations and ROI

What our client has to say

“The main reason I use RateTiger is because it has saved our immense amount of time allowing the sales and reservation team to concentrate on revenue management. RateTiger has the highest quality of channel connections and the speed, accuracy, and ease with which we can manage our online operations is fantastic.”
Scott Erlich
General Manager, The Wolcott Hotel.
 
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Reef Boutique Hotel in Bahrain Drives Back To Vacation Travel With RateTiger

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Reef Boutique Hotel in Bahrain

Drives Back To Vacation Travel

With RateTiger

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How did it begin?

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Reef Boutique Hotel in Bahrain was looking for an all-in-one Hotel Channel Manager for implementing real-time room rates and inventory data. Error-free hotel management was their priority.

They needed a technologically rich and user-friendly distribution tool to boost their online bookings. This is when they registered for RateTiger Channel Manager and Booking Engine in 2019.

What were the constraints?

2-way Connectivity Solution

With no connection between the hotel’s PMS and booking sites, the hoteliers were struggling to handle bookings from different sources. Plus, they didn’t know how to expand their digital presence to reach more clients.

Real-time Rate Distribution

Updating room rates and availability individually across Online Travel Agencies and websites was time consuming. There were incidents of room getting sold at lower rates due to delay in updation.

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Where did they find the solution?

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Signing up for RateTiger hotel distribution products in 2019, Reef Boutique Hotel met the connectivity distribution solution they were looking for. The 2-way seamless XML connectivity bridged the gap between hotel’s PMS and booking sites.

Accessing, updating rates and inventory in real-time from the Hotel Property Management System led to a surge in hotel bookings and ROI.

“Reef Boutique Hotel recommends RateTiger for a rapid growth in online sales”

What were the results?

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Faster Distribution

Bringing all their booking sources to a central hub (the hotel’s PMS); they started experiencing an uptick in distribution they had never seen before.

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Leveraged Direct Bookings

Implementing RateTiger Booking Engine, the sales team leveraged frictionless direct online bookings from the hotel’s website.

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Strategic Pricing

Saving time and energy in doing all activities manually, the team opted for intelligent pricing in line with competitors, customers and market demand.

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Multiplying Online Sales

Driving its way to every customer-centric booking platform, Reef Boutique Hotel experienced a surge in their online sales.

From the client’s mouth

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“Using RateTiger is a great experience for the property as we could manage our rates and rate strategies very effectively using this platform. We witnessed a rapid growth in our online sales using RateTiger – this was a major factor which made us choose RateTiger again when the property is reopened after Covid-19 lockdown.”
Prasad PY
IT Manager, Reef Boutique Hotel, Bahrain
 
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