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Preferred Hotel Group Picks RateGain for Intel

2011-07-18 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Grand Hotel Excelsior Malta

RateGain, a company whose BrandGain innovation we just covered on Argo News, has just announced Preferred Hotel Group’s adoption of their iRate advanced intelligence tool. RateGain’s cutting edge rate shopping system, combined with the hotel groups iRate program, will afford managers real time advantage across multiple channels.

Tags: BrandGain, enterprise pricing tools, enterprise travel tools, Hilton, Historic Hotels of America, hotel news, Hyatt, John Ueberroth, Marriott, Preferred Hotel Group, Preferred Residences, price tools, pricing technology, RateGain, social travel, Starwood, Summit Hotels & Resorts, travel tools

Travel for Good Winners Picked by Travelocity

2011-07-06 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Make a friend for good

Travelocity announced the four grand prize winners for their recent Travel for Good® program. Over the last six months Travelocity has been looking for stories of inspiration from volunteers around the world. The four winners will each receive a $5,000 grant for a so called “volunteer vacation” – where they can offer their services in some corner of the world.

Tags: online travel, OTA, social travel, travel companies, Travel for Good, travel video, Travelocity, vacations, vacations for good, Volunteer Journals, volunteer vacations

Sabre Launches AgentStream Germany With Resounding Thump

2011-03-09 by Phil Butler

Sabre's AgentStream

In travel news from Germany, online travel giant Sabre Group has announced the launch of a social networking platform here in Germany. AgentStream is theoretically designed for travel agents in Germany to be able to engage the social web, at least this is what the over four thousand global participants at AgentStream hope. But aside the obvious PR push of this, is the platform really all that social? It looks more like a push to keep up with Travelport than anything.

Tags: agent tools, corporate travel, Europe travel, German travel, ITB Berlin, OTA's, Sabre Group, social travel, social travel tools, Tnooz, Travel Agent, Travel agent tools, travel tech, Travelport, Travelport's Opinions

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