Travelgate Blog

TravelgateX visualizes the data for the types of travelers of the next months (September-December) and predicts what kind of travellers are making reservations for the first months of 2021.

“TravelgateX has demostrated to act not only as of the technical “pipe” for travel product to flow in but also as an advisor on how to most effectively reach the product we need either by connecting directly or via intermediates”.  We’ve had the great opportunity to interview Michele Ruberl, Head of Enterprise Architecture & Integration at Alpitour World about the Group’s strategy post-Corona, the situation in Italy, and of course, the scope of its collaboration with TravelgateX. Read on and enjoy it!

“What we value in our partnership with TravelgateX is an exceptional level of support”

Emerging Travel is an online travel group that operates three brands in more than 100 source markets: the B2B brand RateHawk and B2C brands ZenHotels and Ostrovok. The Group was founded in 2010 and is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.

Today’s travellers will do their research on a destination through consulting the Internet, reading other people’s comments and opinions as well as taking on the advice of family and friends before actually visiting the place. 

Could you imagine what would happen to those of us working in the hotel sector if Channel Managers did not exist? It would be absolutely crazy, for sure. Channel Managers are a key day-to-day tool that enables us to manage rooms and rates through hundreds of different channels without dying in the attempt. 
Since Channel Managers are an indispensable part of our work we have to know exactly how to choose one: these days there are plenty of them and even if they all have the same basic characteristics, each of them has its own features that can be adjusted – or not – to our business needs.

There are so many destination specialists (DMCs) out there in this world with the most amazing, direct product but who find it difficult to expand their client range as they don’t have their own API. For the Buyers, the only way to access this specialized product is for the DMC to manually load & update their product on the Buyer’s system. But of course, to the DMC, this means countless hours loading and updating multiple systems for their various clients.