A Brisbane company has developed an international first for automating payment and allocations between travel agents and tourism operators.
The first online reservation system to use the EFT on Request system is “a major breakthrough for small tourism operators on narrow margins,” said says Scott Rigby, General Manager, VIP Travel Centres.
“It means that instead of being forced to wait up to 30 days for payments when bookings are made through agents, tourism operators will have payments in their accounts within 24 hours from when a tourist makes a booking.”
Brisbane based VIP Travel Centres, the IT development division of VIP Backpackers, the largest independent hostel network in the world, has joined with Amadeus, the world’s leading global travel system distributor, to launch this new system.
“This is a great example of how tourism operators in the budget sector have adopted mainstream systems like Amadeus - MoneyDirect to improve their distribution and profitability significantly,” said Moira Scerri, Business Development Manager, Amadeus Moneydirect.
The Rezbooker system can sell any combination of online travel products or packages while facilitating payment to the tourism operator. It provides tourism operators with the ability to provide up-to-the-minute booking information to travel agents.
Rezbooker has been successfully rolled out through VIP Backpackers Resorts International, which markets more than 1,200 hostels in 80 countries.
Rezbooker is already being used in-store and online by travel agents such as Flight Centre and Student Flights in Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom and through hundreds of online affiliate websites.
Further integration with the MoneyDirect International Payments Module is being developed to enable the collection of payments from international agents in their own currency and transfer funds to the accounts of Australian tourism providers.
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