Personalised, user-friendly and functional: the state-of-the-art internet booking engine Sabre Hospitality Solutions’ “Guest Connect” of Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts meets the demands of the guests - with a personal touch. Therefore, the Swiss hotel group launched this new booking engine at the end of January. 

Guests of Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts take advantage with immediate effect of the new internet booking engine on www.moevenpick-hotels.com. With an appealing design and advanced technology, Sabre Hospitality Solutions’ “Guest Connect” guarantees an intuitive booking process, hence user-friendly and easy. At a glance consumers can check room availability in the selected hotel. In addition, guests have the possibility to save their profile with address and preferences in the reservation system. Once registered the guest can check their booking history and will save time in future bookings precisely because this personal data is stored in the guest profile. The state-of-the-art booking engine displays photos for each room type and provides travellers the information they wish in order to select the best room for their needs. After the selection of the room type, consumers have the possibility to book additional arrangements such as sightseeing tours, special meals and extra services - a personal attendance from the first touch. Furthermore, a currency converter simplifies the booking process for the guest.

Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts expects a significant increase in both the volume of bookings and conversion rates from visitors to their website. The importance of online travel is increasing every day. For this reason, the Swiss hotel group decided to improve its internet booking engine in order to meet customer’s expectation of usability. “Today the guest experience starts online. We would like to show our clients our values Quality, Reliability and Care with a personal touch at the earliest stage of guest experience”, says Heiko Siebert, Vice President Distribution of Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts. “Guest Connect” is fully integrated into the hotel’s website.

The booking engine is seamlessly integrated into Sabre Hospitality Solutions’ SynXis Central Reservations System (CRS) platform. The SynXis CRS provides connectivity to all electronic distribution.

About Sabre Hospitality Solutions

Sabre Hospitality Solutions (www.sabrehospitality.com) leverages the strength and breadth of Sabre Holding’s technology, marketing and distribution tools to bring hotel suppliers a global end-to-end solution.   Sabre’s hospitality expertise and portfolio of solutions has grown significantly over the last several years and now includes SynXis, which provides distribution technology and marketing services; E-site Marketing, the leading hospitality Internet marketing solutions provider; Sabre Travel Network Hotels, GDS distribution and media products provider; Sabre Hotel RFP, which develops, delivers and manages hotel requests for proposals into a single organization; and Sabre Media Solutions for GDS and other creative services in hospitality.

About Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts

Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts, an upscale hotel management company with 12,000 employees, is represented through over 90 hotels existing or under construction in 26 countries with a concentration in its core markets of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The international hotel group with roots in Switzerland is expanding and has a stated objective of increasing its hotel portfolio to 100 by the year 2010. With two hotel types, business and conference hotels, as well as holiday resorts, Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts has clearly positioned itself in the upscale segment. The hotel group stands for uncompromising product and service quality and is owned by Mövenpick Holding (66.7%) and the Kingdom Group (33.3%).