January 2010 - protel hotelsoftware, Germany, and Dublin-based hotel technology and online strategy firm Bookassist announce the successful integration of the award-winning Bookassist online booking engine with the protel hotel property management system (PMS). The OTA/XML-based integration of the two systems has already been deployed across all hotels in the ARCOTEL Hotel group in Austria, Germany and Croatia.

The solution allows hotels using protel PMS products in-house and Bookassist's booking engine on their websites to seamlessly connect the two technologies. Incoming reservations from the website booking engine are automatically passed to the PMS, eliminating the need for any management or intervention by hotel staff. Time and cost savings are the obvious advantage for hotels, together with improved accuracy of data in the PMS and a more up-to-the-minute representation of availability.

Speaking about the collaboration, Dr Robert Whittle CTO & Founder at Bookassist commented: "Using our OTA/XML interface layer, connections with compliant systems such as protel's PMS is now a straightforward task. protel's interface team in Dortmund and Bookassist's core development team in Madrid worked very closely to bring this integrated solution to the market place in a very short space of time, and we see great opportunities for further collaboration for our joint clients in the future."

Manfred Osthues, co-founder and managing director of protel, shares this point of view: "At protel, we never lose sight of the most important purpose of our software: to optimise our customers' workflows and thus improve their operational effectiveness. We are pleased that with Bookassist we have found yet another partner who shares our goal and are looking forward to further successful cooperations."

 

More about Bookassist®

Bookassist® creates and manages online strategies for hotels and groups and is the industry-leading hotel booking engine and online marketing provider in Ireland. A Deloitte Fast 50 Technology Company in Ireland and in the Top 100 Deloitte Technology Companies in Europe, Bookassist has received numerous awards in Online Trade, Online Marketing, and Technological Innovation including the Irish Internet Association?s NetVisionary Award for online trade. To learn more visit the Bookassist website .

More about ARCOTEL

Starting with the opening of the ARCOTEL Wimberger in Vienna in 1994 that ARCOTEL founder KR Raimund D. Wimmer acquired in 1989 and completely reconstructed in a few years, the ARCOTEL Group has developed into a significant player in the hotel market and is already very successful at the international level as well. Learn more about protel's and Bookassist's common customer at the website of the ARCOTEL Group.

 

Further information:

• protel provides an ever-growing number of interfaces to connect internet distribution systems to protel hotelsoftware MPE and SPE. Our interface management software protel IDS connect is a convenient way to manage your entire online marketing centrally from only one location. To learn more download our protel IDS connect product information.
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