Meritus rolls out new wholesale distribution platform for agents

Meritus Hotels & Resorts has joined forces with travel technology provider Travel Prologue to launch a new technology platform that delivers real-time data on room availability as well as dynamic and static rates to offline contractors including travel agencies, wholesalers and corporate travel intermediaries.

The Travel Prologues’ Trip Affiliates Network (TA Network) hotel platform solutions is expected to enable Meritus to collaborate more effectively with its offline contractors, particularly in the sale of any online tactical or promotional rates that have typically only been made available to OTAs.

The real-time connectivity afforded through the new platform will allow the hotel group to expand and develop a more diverse distribution network with its offline partners, regardless of their location or time zone.

By facilitating direct connectivity and automating the inventory management process, the TA Network platform will allow Meritus and traditional wholesale agents to bypass the manual updating of inventory and confirmation of booking, hence potentially eliminating human errors in manually maintaining hotel contracts and increasing staff productivity.

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