Hotel Technology Next Generation

Hotels4u.com, and RateGain today announced that the Hotels4u.com is now fully connected to RateGain's ChannelGain – an online channel management solution. ChannelGain is one of the first channel managers to develop two-way connectivity with Hotels4u.com, adding booking search and retrieval to the functionality available to partner hotels.

Part of the Thomas Cook Group, Hotels4u.com offers customers a wide choice of product in beach and city destinations, fast becoming the market leader in the wholesale travel trade market. Combined since 2009, the Hotels4u.com and Medhotels brands have grown steadily to over £300m turnover in just over 10 years. Using a seamless XML feed, Hotels4u distribute hotels internally to the European Thomas Cook websites, 1200 Thomas Cook shops in the UK, and directly to customers through the Hotels4u.com. In addition, hotels are distributed to over 200 major online and retail travel trade partners and 6000 travel agents through the Medhotels brand. Medhotels continues to develop its retail partnership network in the UK and throughout Europe, allowing our hotel partners to greatly diversify their customer base.

According to Roy Stratford, Head of Cities for Hotels4u.com, "RateGain's ChannelGain solution provides hotels with an easy to use interface to manage rates and allotments distributed through our market leading sales channels. Once a hotel subscribes to Hotels4u.com for room night distribution, bookings can be delivered seamlessly from Hotels4u.com through the ChannelGain interface." Hotels using RateGain's ChannelGain solution can update rates across a range of rates and numerous channels in one step, and the updated rates will be immediately available to customers shopping hotels on Hotels4u.com.

Customers of ChannelGain do not just connect to one channel they connect to the entire spectrum of Thomas group websites, shops, travel trade partners and travel agents. "Savvy hoteliers utilize ChannelGain to connect with a variety of lucrative channels", says Vishal Jain, RateGain. "Hotels save countless hours and increase their online booking by using our channel management solution. We are pleased to offer Hotels4u.com as a valuable new channel that can be easily managed through ChannelGain".

About RateGain

RateGain offers web-based solutions to leading online travel agents, airlines, wholesalers and hotels across 70 countries. RateGain products for the travel industry have earned numerous awards for innovation. The company is a leader in SaaS based solutions in channel management, online brand reputation management, competitive price intelligence, and social media marketing. Established in 2004, RateGain is headquartered in India with offices in the US, Thailand, Spain, Dubai and the UK. For more information, please visit www.rategain.com. To become a hotel partner, please send in your queries from www.rategain.com

About Hotels4u

Hotels4u offers an extensive array of top quality accommodation worldwide. Hotels4U.com is an independent website that takes away the headache of booking hotels, apartments, villas and transfers for independently minded customers. Featuring over 90,000 properties worldwide, including core product in Spain, the Balearics, Canaries, Algarve, Madeira, Malta, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Bulgaria, Croatia, French Riviera, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, the Caribbean and a wide range of City Break and ski hotels worldwide.

Part of the Thomas Cook Group, Hotels4u.com offers customers a wide choice of product in beach and city destinations, fast becoming the market leader in the wholesale travel trade market through the Medhotels brand, acquired in 2009. Participating hotels gain access to the UK Thomas Cook stores, the European Thomas Cook Group companies and over 6000 trade agents worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.hotels4u.com. To become a hotel partner and distribute through hotels4u.com and Medhotels, contact the Account Management team: http://feature-your-property.hotels4u.com/