Pedro Colaco invited speaker at the OTA 2010 European Conference

Pedro Colaco was an invited speaker at the Open Travel Alliance (OTA) 2010 European Conference at The King’s Fund in London. The OTA has become more and more important as it works together with travel related companies to create an accepted structure for electronic messages, enabling suppliers and distributors to speak the same interoperability language, trading partner to trading partner.
Pedro’s presentation topic was: “Empowering small hotels to rebel”. In this presentation Pedro Colaco explains GuestCentric’s vision on how to change the market where majority of the independent hotels struggle to gain visibility online and loose guests because they don’t have the right tools to engage a new generation of travelers. The web has become a democratic platform where independent hotels can leverage their creativity. People are searching with more and more specific queries, they are asking their Facebook friends where to go and where to stay and, more than ever, people want to book directly with the hotel. This is a huge opportunity as direct bookings tend to generate more direct bookings.
The GuestCentric’s Look, Book, Interact virtuous cycle generates a steady growth for hotels as travelers are able to find and have a real look & feel of the hotel, book on a innovative hotel booking engine and, last but not least, interact with the community and share the experience. In fact, the GuestCentric hotel booking engine is the only one that allows people to share a specific booking engine selection by e-mail, on Facebook or Twitter. Funny fact, 3% to 5% of people visiting our hotels booking engines do exactly that.
In a nutshell, GuestCentric is really the fastest and easiest way to modernize a independent hotel online. Our customers immediately feel a boost in their direct online bookings 3x to 10x, fuel viral business with the ease of sharing and interacting with social outlets and lastly, be prepared for the future competing today.

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Pedro Colaco will discuss the important role of technology  for small-to-medium-size enterprises

GuestCentric Systems, the social cloud provider of e-Commerce solutions for the independent hotel industry, announced that Pedro Colaco, GuestCentric’s President and CEO will speak at the OpenTravel 2010 European Conference in London on November 10, 2010.

The conference will explore the Evolution of Destination Distribution, examining the roles of large and small suppliers, travel distributors and new distribution technology on inbound tourism, the rise of many niche-based technology providers to meet the need of small suppliers, and the changing role of distributors and destinations.

For more information visit 2010 European Conference.

When: November 10 2010, 16:20 – 17:00 GMT Time

Where: The King’s Fund 11-13 Cavendish Square, London W1A-0AX United Kingdom

Pedro Colaco to speak at international event in Madeira, Portugal

GuestCentric Systems, the social cloud provider of e-Commerce solutions for the independent hotel industry, announced that Pedro Colaco, GuestCentric’s President and CEO will speak at the “Conferencia Turismo 2.0 – Oportunidades e desafios para a Madeira” (Web 2.0 Tourism – opportunities and challenges Conference) in Funchal on October 21, 2010. Pedro will talk about new travelers trends and innovations that are defining the path of the hotel industry and how hoteliers can use them to their advantage to engage more customers.

For more information visit Turismo 2.0 – Oportunidades e desafios para a Madeira

When: May 21st 2008,

When: October 21 2010, 9:00 – 18:00 GMT Time

Where: CS Madeira Atlantic Resort & Sea Spa, Funchal Madeira, Portugal

The end of our trip to FITUR helped us reinforce that GuestCentric Systems provides the most innovative technology in the market. After speaking with many properties independent or chain hotels, we confirmed  that no other hotel technology provider offers a portable booking engine with a full integration to social media channels like Facebook and Twitter. With GuestCentric social media platform hotel operators can plan, implement, maintain, drive revenue and measure results from their social media channels.
If you are an Independent property or a chain hotel in need for innovative technologies at affordable prices to expand your brand and stimulate loyalty, contact us and try our booking engine for 14 days for free.

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