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LOCALFriday 26 February 2016
Expedia PartnerCentral App Now Available in Dutch, Spanish & French
ORANJESTAD - The Expedia available for Caribbean time, anywhere. The real- reservations, arrivals and tory and rate update as
group, one of the world’s hotel partners in multiple time, critical data helps cancellations; move last well as a quick glance of
largest online travel com- languages including Span- partners to stay informed minute inventory fast with daily activities for the prop-
panies, announced this ish, French and Dutch as of and competitive with re- Sell Tonight; help increase erty.”
week that the Expedia® February 23, 2016. al-time insights about the visibility by creating tar-
PartnerCentral (EPC) App, The EPC App allows hotel market; read and respond geted promotions; receive --“The app’s quick features
which originally rolled out partners to manage their instantly to feedback from notifications with time-sen- allow me to spot trends
in June 2015, will now be business with Expedia any- guests; stay up to date with sitive information; and ac- and measure hotel per-
cess data quickly with an formance,” said Rachel
efficient single login. Schnure, market director
“To drive value to our hotel of Travel Industry Sales at
partners The Expedia group Marriott Caribbean & Lat-
is constantly investing in in America Resorts. “I also
new technology to help love how easy it is to toggle
provide partners with bet- between multiple hotels.”
ter insights and customer The EPC App is free for
service, as well as increase download in Spanish,
demand,” said Demetrius French and Dutch at the
Canton, market manage- Apple App Store and
ment director for the Ca- Google Play and requires
ribbean. “We’re always an iPhone running iOS 7
looking for ways to make or higher, or an Android
it easier for our partners to phone running OS 4.1.2 or
utilize data and create a higher. The app is the latest
better experience for their innovation demonstrating
guests.” Expedia’s ability to trans-
Several Expedia group ho- form travel through tech-
tel partners in the English- nology. Expedia’s product
speaking Caribbean have team utilizes an unprec-
already tested the app edented amount of data
and are thrilled with its and insights to solve every-
quick response time and day problems on behalf
easy usage. of travelers and suppliers.
Products are developed by
--“I’m a frequent traveler applying data through a
and I would always have to three-step framework: em-
find a hotel in order to con- pathize, hypothesize, test
nect to a computer and and learn. The outcomes
make changes on the Ex- solves problems consum-
pedia site. Because of the ers and suppliers may not
app, I now only have to log have even been aware of,
on through the app on my resulting in user delight, in-
phone, make the changes, creased engagement and
and in a few minutes I’m time optimization.
on the road again,” said By working with Expedia
Paul Graber, national sales group, hotels in the Carib-
manager at Bolongo Bay bean gain exposure from
Beach Resort in St. Thomas. the more than 200 travel
booking sites in more than
--Sasha Cole, marketing 75 countries in 35 languag-
manager at Silver Point Ho- es, in addition to a myriad
tel in Barbados said “I’ve of mobile sites and apps,
been using the EPC App from brands such as Expe-
for a couple of months now dia®, Hotels.com®, Trave-
and find it very convenient locity®, Orbitz®, Hotwire®,
when I am away from my Egencia®, Expedia® Affili-
desktop for a quick inven- ate Network and others.q
