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Shiji Distribution Solutions Expands Partnership with TravelgateX to include Visual Content Distribution

press release

This collaboration between TravelgateX and IcePortal enables hotels to manage and distribute their visual content across popular travel channels worldwide, providing a comprehensive solution for the travel industry.

Press Release – Shiji Distribution Solutions, in partnership with TravelgateX since 2021, is excited to announce an expanded collaboration with IcePortal. The two companies aim to provide the travel industry with comprehensive solutions for managing and distributing visual content across popular travel channels.

TravelgateX is a global marketplace for the travel trade, connecting buyers and sellers across the industry through world-class APIs. With over 1,000 worldwide artners and 60,000+ hotels as clients, TravelgateX is well-positioned to expand the benefits of IcePortal’s unique tools and capabilities to a wider market.

“TravelgateX is a valuable partner for Shiji, and we are excited to be taking our partnership to a new level, by offering them and their network of Channel partners our Visual Content Distribution Solution to enhance and distribute their visual content to global and local travel channels” stated Greg Berman, Chief Operating Officer of Shiji Distribution Solutions.

IcePortal, a visual content distribution solution by Shiji Distribution Solutions, offers hoteliers the ability to manage, optimize, and distribute their images and rich media assets through 450+ global channels. With a focus on travel-specific channels such as OTAs, Metasearch, and GDS, IcePortal has distributed almost 2 million hotel images and rich media and has helped hoteliers to preserve image parity, improve their presence, and secure their assets and knowledge.

“This expanded partnership with Shiji IcePortal’s will help hoteliers vastly improve their online presence by letting them distribute visual content via countless new channels” stated Pedro Camara, CEO of TravelgateX. “IcePortal’s robust visual content distribution system is a perfect match for TravelgateX’s vast travel ecosystem. We are eager to see where this partnership takes us!”.

 About Shiji

Shiji is a multi-national technology company that provides software solutions and services for enterprise companies in the hospitality, food service, retail and entertainment industries, ranging from hospitality technology platform, hotel management solutions, food and beverage and retail systems, payment gateways, data management, online distribution and more. Founded in 1998 as a network solutions provider for hotels, Shiji Group today comprises over 5,000 employees in 80+ subsidiaries and brands in over 23 countries, serving more than 91,000 hotels, 200,000 restaurants and 600,000 retail outlets. For more information, visit www.shijigroup.com.

About TravelgateX

TravelgateX, founded in 2012 and based in Palma de Mallorca (Spain), provides world-class APIs connecting buyers and sellers in the travel industry. With more than 1000 partners already connected, TravelgateX generates more than 3.2 B in transactions, with 30 K+ bookings and 5 B searches every day. This marketplace works to democratize the travel industry, helping all parties to benefit from it. The main purpose is to connect agents with full transparency, in order to always offer the best and most competitive products and services.