InnLink, LLC announced the signing and activation of Budget Host to InnLink’s Central Reservation Services.
Budget Host with 150 properties, has chosen to move from Magnuson Hotels to InnLink, LLC Central Reservation Services. Properties will be active effective immediately. Budget Host’s properties will be using all InnLink’s core services, including eLINK to maximize their online booking capability to GDS and Internet channels, iLINK, the booking engine for property reservations, and vLINK voice reservation services, to provide a new service for the Budget Host brand. Each Budget Host property will also have ONtarget Revenue Consulting services to help increase property revenue, and manage inventory and channel distribution.
“Budget Host is focused on becoming more accessible to customers, improving our online visibility and booking capabilities. InnLink will help us deliver that promise to our customers. We are also launching a new Web site this week as part of this change,” said Lisa Sawyer, president, Budget Host. “We are always looking for ways to improve our affiliates’ profitability, and InnLink is helping us achieve that objective.”
“We are excited to welcome Budget Host to the InnLink family. We strongly support their brand philosophy and Lisa Sawyer, in her focus to improve both the affliate and customer experience,” said Per-Anders Wendin, InnLink’s CEO. “We look forward to helping Budget Host prosper over years to come.”
InnLink will provide the following services to Budget Host:
- Connectivity to the four major GDS systems
- Internet distribution to thousands of Internet Web sites
- Online booking engine
- Easy-to-use data management through InnLink’s Web-based RESmatrix tool
- Online training and guidance
- Revenue management
- Voice reservations services
- 24/7 customer service