Sydney, Australia – SiteMinder, the title behind the one software program platform that unlocks the complete income potential of accommodations, has been recognised on the 2024 HotelTechAwards for its management in converging income administration and advertising and marketing software program for accommodations. For the second consecutive yr, the lodge expertise pioneer has taken house the title of ‘Greatest Lodge eCommerce Platform’, which is awarded to the corporate that finest brings collectively all of the crucial capabilities hoteliers must be profitable on-line.
Amongst these capabilities are distribution, direct bookings and sustaining a web-based presence. SiteMinder’s relentless concentrate on these buyer wants has seen the corporate obtain the Folks’s Selection Award for the third straight yr. As testomony to its management inside these three areas of income administration and lodge advertising and marketing, SiteMinder has additionally taken out the highest award within the respective classes of ‘Greatest Channel Supervisor’, ‘Greatest Reserving Engine’ and ‘Greatest Lodge Web site Design’.
Moreover, SiteMinder has been named the highest finalist within the class of ‘Greatest Lodge Administration System’ for Little Hotelier, the corporate’s all-in-one resolution for small lodging suppliers.
Leah Rankin, Chief Product Officer at SiteMinder, says, “For the whole workforce at SiteMinder, it’s a true honour to be recognised by the shoppers who drive our ardour and our dedication to constructing the fully-integrated lodge platform of the longer term. Our mission is to make subtle income administration accessible to each lodge on the earth, and accolades akin to these function recognition that now we have the strongest basis throughout the lodge expertise trade to make this a actuality. Hoteliers from greater than 40,000 lodging world wide, who banked greater than US$45 billion in income from over 115 million bookings final yr, have advised us by these awards that they share our imaginative and prescient for a future with subtle income administration functionality steeped into each facet of a lodge’s expertise resolution.”
SiteMinder’s platform presently integrates channel administration, direct reserving, market intelligence, metasearch and fee options along with the lodge trade’s largest associate ecosystem of greater than 1,800 revenue-centred lodge programs and consultants. The subsequent technology of SiteMinder’s platform might be launched later this yr and can converge income optimisation, distribution and intelligence, to make accommodations as dynamic because the journey setting during which they function.
“Convergence refers to the concept so as to maximise lodge bookings, lodge entrepreneurs need to be nicely versed in not simply advertising and marketing but in addition gross sales, distribution and income administration. This convergence amongst industrial roles has led to an elevated reliance on software program instruments to handle all the complexities,” says Jordan Hollander, CEO of Lodge Tech Report, the host of the annual HotelTechAwards. “Along with level options, the annual consumer selection awards recognise the highest eCommerce Platform that covers all the crucial capabilities wanted for accommodations to ascertain a web-based internet presence and generate direct and oblique on-line bookings. Regardless of it being essentially the most aggressive yr in HotelTechAwards historical past, SiteMinder pulled it off.”
Heather Minyard, Director of Industrial Technique at Smoky Mountain Resorts in Tennessee, says: “After counting on SiteMinder as my go-to resolution for 3 years, it has been a outstanding journey witnessing the continual evolution and enhancements made to the platform. The diligent dedication to progress exhibited by SiteMinder has not gone unnoticed. Their dedication to refining and increasing the platform has resulted in a sturdy and highly-effective software that has persistently met and exceeded my expectations. It has grow to be an indispensable a part of my each day operations. It liberates me from the laborious guide duties that have been as soon as the usual observe, considerably enhancing my workflow. This newfound effectivity permits me to allocate extra time and a spotlight to significant duties.”
Concerning the HotelTechAwards
Based mostly on lodge buyer suggestions and proprietary knowledge alerts, the HotelTechAwards is the one data-driven awards program to recognise the world’s finest lodging software program. Class winners are chosen from greater than 200 of the highest expertise merchandise world wide, decided by product critiques from a worldwide neighborhood of verified lodge expertise customers throughout greater than 120 international locations. Throughout this yr’s awards interval, greater than 800,000 hoteliers visited Lodge Tech Report back to contribute greater than 16,000 verified product critiques.
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About SiteMinder
SiteMinder Restricted (ASX:SDR) is the title behind SiteMinder, the one software program platform that unlocks the complete income potential of accommodations, and Little Hotelier, an all-in-one lodge administration software program that makes the lives of small lodging suppliers simpler. The worldwide firm is headquartered in Sydney with workplaces in Bangalore, Bangkok, Barcelona, Berlin, Dallas, Galway, London and Manila. Via its expertise and the most important associate ecosystem within the international lodge trade, SiteMinder generates greater than 115 million reservations value over US$45 billion in income for its lodge clients every year.
