A central reservation system centralizes a hotel or chain's availability and rates and pushes them to every channel. It is the single source of truth for price and inventory that feeds the website, OTAs and GDS. In large chains it sits alongside the PMS.
Example A chain updates a rate in the CRS and the new price reaches all its hotels and channels at once.
The property management system is a hotel's core software. It handles reservations, check-in and check-out,...
DistributionA channel manager syncs a hotel's rates and availability across all its sales channels at once. When a room...
DistributionA global distribution system is a network that connects travel agents with hotels, airlines and car rentals....
Hotel technologyAn API is the door through which two programs talk and pass data with no human in the middle. In a hotel it...
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