BCD Travel has announced a multi-year agreement with San Francisco-based GetGoing to power the travel management company’s proprietary hotel-booking platform. RoomSource® aims to enable both agents and travelers to shop for and book hotels and rates that are within and outside global distribution systems.
“We selected GetGoing as the engine behind RoomSource not only for its agile and dynamic product-development capabilities, but because the technology offers business travelers a user-friendly experience more typically found on travel websites aimed at consumers,” said Torsten Kriedt, BCD’s vice president of Corporate Intelligence and Product Planning.
When deployed, RoomSource powered by GetGoing will include:
- Access to a wider choice of hotel properties—more than 400,000 worldwide
- The ability to shop and book from multiple sources, including global distribution systems and hotel booking agencies
- The ability to book online, via a mobile device, or with assistance from a BCD Travel agent
- Automatic offering of corporate-negotiated and agency-preferred rates alongside published rates available to the wider marketplace
“Many companies today are making an unhappy trade-off using multiple booking channels to secure rooms for their business travelers,” Kriedt said. “Companies might book air, rail, and car with their travel management company, but see hotels booked out-of-program through consumer and other web-based hotel booking channels. GetGoing will help us sidestep that minefield to achieve broader corporate goals—reducing costs, bolstering negotiations for corporate discounts and supporting traveler safety and security.”
