Benefits of a Content Management System Website
by Bill Mitchell, Chief Operating Officer, RezStream

It used to be standard practice for designers to create “static websites” by using WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) programs, such as Microsoft’s Front Page and Adobe Dreamweaver.  While these applications have their advantages, they add tons of unnecessary HTML code to the website, which makes it more difficult for search engine spiders to crawl and index.  In addition, these traditional style websites are difficult to edit and upgrade. 

Another option, and one of the hottest new trends in…

Breaking News: ITA is the name for what most people call GDS, the abbreviation for Global Distribution Services. ITA's are resources like Orbitz and Expedia.com that aid travelers in searching, reserving, and purchasing travel products. Google is in private negotiations to acquire ITA Software Inc., which would enable Google to showcase available flight information, hotels and more travel services in their search engine. This ITA acquisition would allow Google to compete with similar travel search features that Microsoft currently offers. According to Henry Hartevelds, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc., “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information…

There has been recent criticism of the Select Registry/SynXis partnership, an alliance that will enable Select Registry to offer online reservations on their website and SynXis to provide optional Global Distribution System (GDS) reservation services to Select Registry members. 

RezStream believes that some of this criticism is misleading and biased.

The agreement between Select Registry and SynXis does not require any Select Registry member to exclusively use SynXis as their online booking engine; nor does the agreement mandate that Select Registry members sign up for the optional SynXis GDS services or use the SynXis booking engine on their…

One of the most frequent inquiries at the RezStream billing department is disputes over GDS cancellations.  What properties need to understand is if a guest wishes to cancel, they must do so by way of the original site of the booking or your property will still incur the GDS $15.50 per booking fee.  If the guest calls your property directly to process a cancellation instead of cancelling through the original portal of the booking, and the cancellation is entered into your desktop software, the original booking agent (InnLink & RezStream) will have no knowledge the cancellation occurred and…