Pelican system answers major hotel's problems found after an extensive research and development, based on reliable information of reputable hoteliers, Hotelexchange Pte Ltd.

The demand for this system has come from hoteliers around the world because it will help hotel to regain control their room rates and room inventory.

The following are some of the problems that many hotels encountered, or they are not aware of:

• Distributing "Last Minute" Rates to Travel Agents, Corporate Clients and Internet Users - Hotel changes it's room rates depending on seasonal periods or the market rates. This can be high number of changes in rates and done on daily basis. Hotel recognizes if they don't sell the room today they won't sell it tomorrow. Rate is an important factor for hotel to increase yield management. Unfortunately, hotel experiences problems when distributing new rates, due to the large numbers of travel agents, corporate clients, or Internet users. With Pelican this can be done instantly.



• Losing Control Over Room Rates and Room Allotment - Any business outside GDS bookings require hotel to issue a manual written contract to travel agencies and/or corporate clients. In doing this, hotels might not realize that they are giving up some of their control over room rates and room inventory. Most contracts are valid between 6 to 12 months. Hotel must honour these rates until the contract expired. During high season hotels have no choice but to sell on low contracting rate. When giving room allotment hotel also lose control of that number of rooms allotted for that one client until the effective cut off date. This situation makes hotels lose control over their own rates and room allotment. With Pelican hotel may update their room rates and room allotment on anytime and effective immediately.



• Distributing Room Allotment - Hotel has problems issuing room allotment to every agent, corporation, or Internet user manually. Room allotment contracted manually to an agent provides him with an edge over other non-contracted agents. Pelican System solves this problem by managing your room allotment better. Specific room allotment can be allotted to a specific group of agents/corporate clients and the same room allotment is then may be shared by up to hundreds or even thousands of agents/ corporate clients worldwide. This will maximize the allocation and provide equal opportunities to clients.



• Distribution Cost – Pelican saves you distribution expenses. This program designed for hotel to provide better room rates and room allotment distribution, using Internet technology, which allow hotel to distribute rates and room inventory information globally.

About Pelican System
Pelican is an Internet-based reservation system designed to manage all types of bookings, whether made directly by guests or through travel agents and corporate clients.

For Internet users (direct guests) Pelican will provide instant confirmation of reservations made through the hotel web site, and will notify the hotel' reservation department though automatically generated e-mail messages.

For travel agents and corporate clients Pelican offers a feature called "Online Contracting," which eliminates the need for paper-based, fixed-term contracts, allowing the hotel to set and adjust rates and allotments instantly according to seasonal period, special events, or unexpected demand.

Pelican system provides a secure link to agents and clients, allowing hotels to distribute confidential trade rates to pre-authorized recipients, and to share allotments among many agents and clients on a "first-come-first-served" basis. Each agent or client accesses the system directly from the hotel's own web site with a unique login/password combination, allowing the hotel to assign each user to a specific group, and to determine the information and privileges each group will receive.

With Pelican system, the hotel has complete control at all times, and can easily monitor activity through instantly generated summaries and full reports.

For more information please visit www.pelicansystem.com

Author:
Linda Husin
R&D Manager
linda@pelicansystem.com