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IXeo Selected for Luxury Hotel Alliance’s New Dynamic Web Site

IXeo Interactive Travel SA
2006-11-02 10:59 10264

Global Hotel Alliance Launches Fully Interactive Site with Independent

Tailored Packaging

ZURICH, Switzerland, Nov. 2 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- IXeo Interactive

Travel SA, the global tourism gateway, today announced that it has been

chosen by the Global Hotel Alliance, the new hotel alliance for luxury hotels

and resorts, to build and operate the company’s website with complete

dynamic packaging & tailored booking solution launched on the 27th October.

The agreement included both the front-end design and complete booking

engine around the prestigious hotels and resorts in the Global Hotel

Alliance. The IX-e booking solution adds flights and local services, to

complement each hotel’s accommodation and to broaden the product offering.

IXeo’s unique filtering technology, the IX-concierge, enables hotels to

offer services relevant to the chosen destination and their guests’ travel

motive and lifestyle through a completely flexible travel planner.

Through a partnership with Columbus Travel Publishing, the IX-e platform

is additionally enhanced by rich and reliable destination content, including

city guides, airport guides and local event information. IXeo will handle all

fulfilment, for GHA tailored packaged services.

Christopher Hartley, Global Hotel Alliance CEO, states: ‘through our

recent merger with the Asian Hotel Alliance, the GHA is now perfectly set to

be the alliance of choice for independent luxury hotel brands and our

discerning clients demand the very best global capability for leisure and

business travel. Our website not only reflects this image, but also offers a

reliable and state-of-the-art booking experience for our customers. IXeo has

impressed us with their complete quality approach to blend design,

functionality and high-quality content into one seamless application.’

‘We are proud to be selected as the complete application and solution

partner for the Global Hotel Alliance, with their innovative vision for the

hospitality industry. Our one-stop-shopping-solution for the customer has

once more provided a competitive advantage for our clients. The fast pace in

the hospitality industry calls for new creative solutions to retain customers

in the branded environment of a hotel’s website. We believe that flexible

destination content with the possibility to book all travel-related services

on one site will be the key factors for the future success of hotel branded

portals and tourism gateways,’ says Graham S. Leslie, President and CEO of

IXeo.

For detailed information please view http://www.globalhotelalliance.com .

About IX-e

The IX-e solution is a white label product from IXeo Interactive Travel

SA, a registered corporation with head offices in Kuesnacht-Zurich,

Switzerland, developed in partnership with zts tourism solutions, the leading

German based technology specialist for tourism applications. The IX-e mission

is to provide the travel market with an intelligent booking platform and

interactive live tourism content comprising hotels, resorts, lodges, camps,

transport and ground suppliers, online ticketing for special events and

ground services. IXeo is the only company providing a completely interactive

gateway integrating both the hospitality and travel industry including

fulfilment. ‘IXEO’, ‘IX-e’ and ‘IX’ are registered trademarks of

ICON.NET SA.

Contact: press@ixeo.com

About Global Hotel Alliance

Seven prominent hotel brands -- Dusit Hotels & Resorts, Kempinski Hotels,

Landis Hotels & Resorts, Marco Polo Hotels, Omni Hotels, Pan Pacific Hotels &

Resorts and Rydges Hotels & Resorts -- created an alliance promising to

deliver great value and a memorable experience worldwide.

The Global Hotel Alliance, created in 2004, is the world’s largest

alliance of independent hotel groups. GHA is about offering greater choice

and enhanced recognition to customers in a growing collection of hotels,

managed by individual, regional brands, which are respected in their home

markets for reflecting local traditions and culture through their hotels’

products and services.

Contact: rachel.mackinnon@globalhotelalliance.com

Source: IXeo Interactive Travel SA
Keywords: Travel
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