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Global Hotel Reservations
Earn generous commissions PLUS 50% of optional
nightly service fees
Earn up to 12% on Save Rate hotel bookings, based on sales volume (includes OPTI-FEE revenue share)
Sample Quick Search:
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DISCOVER THE WORLD'S LEADING ONLINE HOTEL BOOKING ENGINE
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World Choice Travel (WCT) offers a unique no-cost opportunity to generate significant revenue while meeting the needs of your customers. Use our free online booking technology and marketing support to build your brand.
With the world's most comprehensive hotel booking engine, visitors to your website can choose from over 75,000 hotels & resorts worldwide. As a WCT travel affiliate, you can select which hotels or destinations to feature on your website, giving you the ability to totally customize your website. We don't compete for your customers - our tools are at your disposal to build your own brand.
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FEATURES OF OUR ONLINE HOTEL BOOKING ENGINE:
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- LUCRATIVE compensation plan PLUS optional additional income from nightly booking fees
- Real-time online reservations utilizing three hotel databases
- Over 75,000 hotels & resorts worldwide
- Over 50,000 discount merchant rate hotels including Save Rate and Preferred Rate hotels
- Available in HTML or XML Interface
- Thousands of online hotel brochures, pictures and interactive maps
- Hotel booking engine available in 12 languages
- Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC)
- Private-branded customer credit card statements
- Landmark proximity search in selected popular cities
- Customize your site through our powerful and secure Partner Support Center
- 24/7 call center for reservations and customer service
- Turn lookers into bookers with our OPTImizer Conversion Tool
View Demo of North America Hotel Booking Engine >
View Demo of Global Hotel Booking Engine >
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INCREASE YOUR PROFITS WITH OPTI-FEES
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WorldChoiceTravel’s OPTI-FEE program gives WCT partners the option to add service fees to online hotel bookings. This innovative and successful program gives you the ability to select the option that works best for your business and to make more money. WCT Partners can increase their average revenue per booking by over 30% by adding OPTI-FEES!
Click for more information on our OPTI-FEE Program
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A COMPLETE SOLUTION
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Our powerful, performance-oriented and reliable hotel booking engine makes us the leader in online hotel booking technology worldwide. WCT can provide your website with real-time access to hotel inventory, with thousands of pictures, brochures and other content designed to help close the sale. WCT features different types of hotel inventory that you can present in a format that reflects your private brand identity: Save Rate (and Preferred Rate) hotels and Published Rate hotels.
Save Rate (and Preferred Rate) hotels make up a significant portion of hotel inventory available in our booking engine. These merchant rate bookings are paid for in advance, and the commissions are delivered faster to you than Published Rate bookings (see below). Thousands of hotels from our extensive proprietary room inventory management system were added to our parent company Travelocity's vast net rate hotel inventory to make up a total of over 50,000 Save Rate hotels. We recently expanded our merchant rate hotel program to include over 3,500 Preferred Rate hotels; these are prepaid rates which also pay a higher commission and carry your private brand name.
Published Rate hotel inventories from Pegasus and Sabre allow us to offer comprehensive global coverage and the widest variety of properties. The content from these two systems consists of the same inventory and rates accessed by travel agents worldwide. With standard Published Rate bookings, the customer pays at time of checkout, rather than in advance. WCT earns a commission from the hotels, which we collect after the guest checks out.
These online reservation systems interface with WCT's hotel booking engine to provide your customers with room availability, discount pricing, hotel policies and instant online reservation capability. Simultaneously drawing from multiple inventory databases achieves true redundancy, meaning that our database always has a backup, resulting in maximum performance. The use of Save Rate and Published Rate hotels ensures optimal choice and flexibility as well as the best rates for your customers.
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GLOBAL HOTEL RESERVATIONS ON DEMAND
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Your own portal becomes a global travel center, with hotel reservations on demand in 12 languages and viewable in over 160 currencies.
With one mouseclick, your customers can navigate the hotel booking engine in:
English |
Spanish |
French |
Italian |
German |
Dutch
Danish |
Norwegian |
Russian |
Czech |
Hungarian |
Japanese
Search box preferences can be configured to meet the regional needs of your target audience such as local date display formats. Our broad international focus has led to the establishment of WCT partners in 42 countries.
NOTE: If you have viewed the hotel booking engine with any of our 12 language options, please make sure that you click on the English version when you are completed to reset it to English.
Exchange rates at your fingertips
Add value to your website with our useful currency converter. Our currency converter is provided by Oanda.com, the well-known trading site on the Internet for currency and foreign exchange information.
This handy pop-up converter localizes rates for customers all over the world, with up-to-date, two-way conversions in up to 164 currencies.
View Currency Converter
Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC)
WCT's hotel booking engine includes a Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) feature for customers paying with credit cards issued in currencies other than US Dollars. Your customers may pay for their merchant rate hotel transaction in their credit card's currency of issue OR in US dollars. When they select the non-US currency option, they are able to view the total amount of the transaction in both currencies and the current exchange rate in effect. The rate provided is a published, competitive conversion rate that is electronically updated.
The currency exchange is completed at the time of booking, and is typically less expensive for the customer than currency conversions performed by bank or credit card companies. DCC gives your international customers instant knowledge of the reservation total in both their credit card-issued currency and US Dollars, reducing confusion about hotel pricing and increasing their chances of completing the reservation. The feature simplifies expense reporting for business travelers, as they are able to submit the confirmation receipt instead of waiting for their credit card statement to find out the exchange rate and amount settled. Hotel commissions continue to be paid to you in US Dollars, regardless of the currency that the booking was made in. Please note that Dynamic Currency Conversion is currently available for Visa and MasterCard transactions only.
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CUSTOMIZABLE XML INTERFACE
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Partners with suitable web capabilities can customize our hotel booking engine extensively with our XTRA (XML for Travel) interface.
XTRA facilitates direct access to WCT's raw hotel data and booking capabilities, allowing you to create your website's own look and feel and host your own web pages.
Click for more information on our
XTRA-XML Travel Interface
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REAL-TIME REPORTING AND SALES MANAGEMENT
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In our Partner Support Center, you have instant access to online accounting reports that instantly track the revenue from your travel sales. Using our secure, password-protected access, you can use Web-based, on-screen tools to easily track sales, trends and monitor marketing
activities. We provide detailed overviews of commissions due to you, OPTI-FEE reports, reports organized by product and many other documents and resources to manage your travel sales.
Click for more Information on our Partner Support Center
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RICH CONTENT
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Your customers get all the information they need at their fingertips: detailed descriptions of the hotels, rooms and amenities, photos, street maps, and interactive traveler reviews. Some featured hotels provide streaming video and/or virtual tours of their properties. Our destination content provides travelers with information about attractions, dining and other useful details.
Click for more information on our Travel Content and Added Value Tools
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OFFER GLOBAL CHOICE AND SERVICE - WITH YOUR PRIVATE BRAND
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In addition to over 55,000 worldwide hotels and resorts, customers can choose from hundreds of major hotel brands representing trusted hotels in over 10,000 destinations around the globe. You can customize your travel website to include only specific destinations or the hotels of your choice. Our user-friendly system delivers instant e-mail confirmation of reservations privately branded with your company's name. And it's easy to make changes or cancel a reservation!
Click for sample of our private branded e-mail confirmations
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EARN MORE WITH SAVE RATE HOTELS
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WCT's Save Rate merchant rate hotel program gives you the chance to make more money with deeply discounted hotel rates. Save Rate hotels have faster payouts, and cancellation rates on these types of hotel bookings are considerably lower. With significant discounts on over 50,000 merchant rate hotels worldwide, your customers learn to associate these great rates with your specific brand. Save Rate hotel listings are branded to reflect the name of your travel business or website -- another way WCT helps you build your brand and retain customers.
Click for more details on the Save Rate Hotel Program
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