Business travelers sweeten the melon with the Hotel Booking Tool

Travel management company Corporate Traveler has implemented a new hotel booking tool into its Melon travel booking and management platform in the US and Canada, the company announced.

The tool is built from Corporate Traveler parent Flight Center Travel Group’s partnership with aggregator technology specialist HotelHub, which aggregates hotel content across multiple global distribution systems as well as non-GDS channels into a single desktop interface that standardizes rates and room types across channels for avoid duplication of work. Corporate Traveler said all of its hotel content sources in the US and Canada, as well as any negotiated rates by its customers, have been integrated into Melon via HotelHub. Melon has also implemented HotelHub’s API so customers can connect the content with their own preferred booking tool.

Corporate Traveler has enabled billback payment methods in the hotel booking platform, enabling the use of such payment options as virtual cards, according to TMC.

“Feedback from Corporate Traveler consultants who have used the technology has been extremely positive, and they have been impressed by the ease of navigation, fast bookings and integration of virtual payments into the solution,” HotelHub’s chief commercial officer Eric Meierhans said in a statement. “They are also excited about functionality such as the ‘book again’ function, maps showing hotels and prices, selection of search criteria and standardization of booking record.”

Corporate Traveller, Flight Centre’s division specializing in small and medium-sized customers, is now working on implementing the hotel booking tool and API connection in the UK, which it expects to be done within the next few months. South Africa follows in the fourth quarter of this year.

Corporate Traveler launched the Melon platform a little less than a year ago.