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GuestCentric. OC Working Group – 22.01.2013 Serge Tymaniuk. Overview. Introduction Features Business model Competitors analysis Questions. What is GuestCentric?. Launched in October 2006 with $1.2 million of seed capital. Based in Portugal. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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GuestCentric
OC Working Group – 22.01.2013Serge Tymaniuk
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Overview
• Introduction
• Features
• Business model
• Competitors analysis
• Questions
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What is GuestCentric?
– Launched in October 2006 with $1.2 million of seed capital.– Based in Portugal.– Initially tailored to small and mid sized hotels. – At the early stage the primary focus was Web Services
development.– The first version of the booking platform was released in May
2008.
– Currently GuestCentric provides a hotel booking engine as well as marketing and distribution platform for different sized hotels.
– Major markets are US, UK, Spain and Portugal.
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Features
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• Multi-device hotel booking engine
• Hotel website design
• Channel management
• Social marketing
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Multi-Device Hotel Booking Engine (1)
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• Linkage of the Reservation button on a website/Facebook with booking API.
• Based on the Ajax technologies.
• Mobile and tablet optimized.
• Website analytics based on predefined KPIs.
• Revenue Management analytics.
• Guests analytics (CRM).
• Real time history comparison of hotel reservations with previous month or year.
• Built in reports.
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Multi-Device Hotel Booking Engine (2)
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Multi-Device Hotel Booking Engine (3)
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Multi-Device Hotel Booking Engine (4)
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Hotel Website Design (1)
• Content management system (CMS) for hoteliers.
• Hotel specific gadget such as contact forms, TripAdvisor reviews, local weather integrated within CMS.
• Up to 11 languages supported.
• Website mobile optimization.
• Hosting facilities.
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Hotel Website Design (2): GuestCentric CMS Overview
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Channel Management
• A single place to manage most important online channels.
• Centralization of all reservations: online, offline or from travel agents.
• Controlling of daily pricing and availabilities across all channels at once.
• Automatic SEO.
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Social Marketing
• Online reputation management (TripAdvisor, YouTube, Twitter, blogs, news, Facebook) is based on ReviewPro integration.
• Creation and management of the own loyalty programs.
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Pricing
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Discussion
• GuestCentric aim is to target 400,000 hotels.
• A possibility to request 14 days trial.
• Other Channels button is not revealed.
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Competitors Analysis: Hubspot
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Sources
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1. http://www.guestcentric.com/2. http://www.hubspot.com/3. http://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Technolog
y/GuestCentric-gives-smaller-hotels-a-greater-online-presence/
4. http://www.reviewpro.com/
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Thank you for your attention!
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Questions?