How Hotelbeds Can Take Travel Providers Into 2025

As the shape of the travel industry and traveller demands continue to evolve, it’s important that you have access to the vital tools, platforms, and resources you need to stay ahead of the curve.

At Hotelbeds, we are dedicated to providing you with the right tools and travel products necessary to meet the needs of your clients, and maintain a strong position in the travel industry. 

Our unique selection of travel industry services and products which are powered by TravelTech, our industry knowledge, and the expertise of our team, will ensure your success in the competitive travel market.

Sign up today to get started with us or log into your account to start planning for success in 2025.

Comprehensive API Connectivity

Designed to enhance the developer experience, our API Suite offers light, fast, and reliable technology for frictionless distribution. All to help travel providers better cater to the needs of the modern traveller.

APItude currently empowers over 5000 developers worldwide, with API solutions catering to every requirement.

Whether you need seamless access to real-time pricing and availability in one place with our Cache API, want enhanced, end-to-end booking management with our Booking API, orrequire faster, enriched product content with our Content API, Hotelbeds APItude offers a solution to your needs no matter your position in the travel industry. 

• Real-time availability and pricing, all in one place.
• Rich product content across our expansive portfolio.
• End-to-end booking management.
• Flexible terms and upselling opportunities.
• Simple, streamlined modification via one API Suite.

Discover more about our API suite here.

An Expansive Portfolio of Interconnected Travel Products

A more comprehensive, global portfolio of travel products means you can better cater to your clients' evolving needs and stay relevant in the fast-moving travel industry.

Here’s a look at what our global portfolio offers at a glance:

• Over 250,000 hotels in trending destinations worldwide.
• 23,000+ in-destination experiences and activities to enhance your clients’ trips.
• Transfer routes with global coverage.
• 500+ car rentals for more travel experiences.
• Travel products available in 170+ countries around the globe.

Not to mention the 60,000 travel distributors selling to actively engaged travellers in worldwide locations, and more than 3000 service and product experts providing operational support to suppliers and clients, for truly comprehensive distribution and exposure in the travel and tourism industry.

Access to a Global Network of Travel Sellers and Buyers

In the travel and tourism industry, fragmentation is a common occurrence. This issue is often cited by end travelers as a major source of disappointment and frustration, compounded by the fact that approximately 45% of global travellers prefer booking their trips through a single point of contact, which includes flights, accommodation, car rentals, and additional services. This preference is especially high among Gen Z travellers, with 50% prioritising comprehensive options.

So, being part of an interconnected network wherein travel distribution is made easy can provide an untold number of benefits.

With seamless API connectivity to help you get your products seen on multiple touchpoints as part of this highly-desired comprehensive offering, the option for dynamic packaging, and a customer-centric booking journey through a user-friendly web-based platform, our travel partners are equipped with the means to succeed in their markets.

Partnering with Hotelbeds goes beyond just accessing our travel industry services; it provides a gateway to countless opportunities for growth, development, and enhancement of your offerings. By collaborating with us, you can increase your visibility in a highly competitive market and leverage timely demand to your advantage.

Personalisation Options to Create Real Connection

At HBX Group’s MarketHub 2024, Salesloft’s Senior Director of Sales Engineering, Rebby John, revealed that consumers are likely to spend 67% more for the same product, provided they have a better sales experience. Indeed, personalisation begins at the very start of the journey, ahead of the experience or even the sale. Today’s consumer even anticipates that their ‘dreaming’ phase should be tailor-made for them.

With Hotelbeds you can also:

• Participate in seasonal sales and campaigns designed to uplift your revenue – choose the promotions you want to participate in with complete flexibility, to be seen by, and appeal to, your ideal customer.
• Benefit from exclusive rates, availabilities and specially negotiated conditions - thanks to our teams of sourcing experts, in order to craft even more bespoke travel options and deliver them at the right time to your market.

Regular Resources and Industry Insights

We cover everything from getting started as a business, discussions about the latest travel industry trends and developments, to getting the best out of Hotelbeds on our Resources page.

Make sure to check back for regular updates and bookmark the resources that align with your needs for future reference.

Expert Teams to Support You and Your Business

When you partner with Hotelbeds, you gain immediate access to not only a suite of powerful travel advisor tools that help you boost your bookings, but also a collective of 3,000+ industry professionals.

We also offer powerful products and tools for web-based partners, as well as providers with an API business model. Read on for more information about our travel industry services for web-based providers:

A Powerful Booking Platform

Powered by an intelligent algorithm and real-time data, our Hotelbeds Booking Engine has built-in features and functionalities specifically designed to streamline the way you work. But it is also powerful, processing 6.2 billion searches and 90,000+ bookings a day.

Our Booking Engine provides convenient access to our search and recommendation tool, Insights, along with our self-service tools for efficient booking management. This streamlined process not only saves time but also enhances your earning potential.

Elevate your clients' travel experiences with our in-built cross-selling features, streamline your searches with useful filters, visualise trips using the integrated Google Map view, and select from top exclusive rates, offers, and availabilities to better your overall offering to travellers, and improve your position within the travel industry and alongside your competitors.

An Intelligent Travel Marketing and Recommendation Tool  

Here’s what this tool offers:

• Trend forecast with real-time data – Insights is influenced by real bookings, to closely match the current and upcoming preferences of your market.  
• AI that learns from you – the more you interact, the more accurate your recommendations.
• Filter options to better cater for your customers’ needs - such as: international or domestic locations, destination theme, traveller type, regions, and star ratings. 
• Cross-selling functionality to boost each booking – the ‘Experiences’ tab lets you review popular experiences ranked by their opportunity value.

Explore Insights for yourself, here.

Alternatively, sign up today to gain exclusive access to this intuitive tool, designed specifically for travel providers.

In-built Cross-Selling Functionalities to Maximise Your Bookings

Did you know that cross-selling and upselling can be up to 20 times more effective than selling to a new customer? In fact, around 65% of many businesses’ revenue comes from existing customers.

For our web clients, providing a personalised and enriched travel experience at the moment of booking is recommended to create the greatest impact, as this is when travellers are most open to inspiration. To help you achieve this, we have streamlined the process of adding related travel products and services to your bookings through our integrated cross-selling functions in the Hotelbeds Booking Engine.

Simply click ‘+ Add Products’ from your cart, which will open a useful pop-up window. From there, you can add experiences, activities, transfers, and even car rental services.

Whether your client needs in-destination support – accessible via our Help Desk or the ‘Support’ tab in our Booking Engine – or you need guidance on which opportunities resonate most with your market thanks to our sourcing experts, our tools and teams are here to help.

Sign up today to become one of our valuable travel partners, to begin your revenue-enhancing collaboration with us and uplift your success in 2025. 

Or, if you're already part of the interconnected network of Hotelbeds partners, log into your account to begin planning for success in 2025.