Delray Beach, FL – July 31, 2013: HICKORY GLOBAL PARTNERS (“HICKORY”; www.HickoryTravel.com), a strategic business alliance travel company, which provides innovative service, distribution and technology to their network of travel agency and supplier partners, announced tripBAM™ as one of its preferred technology partners. Hickory Global Partners is the first agency group to reach an agreement with tripBAM, as part of its strategy to lead the travel industry to measurable results and greater profitability.
tripBAM provides travelers an easy way to monitor rates across hundreds of user-selected hotels between the time of booking and day of arrival. The average traveler will find savings of more than $100 on over 50% of their hotel bookings. Equally important, tripBAM gives agents the ability to deliver a higher level of customer service to their clients. tripBAM is a cloud-based, fully automated service where agents can create customized client hotel clusters for daily rate monitoring. As prices drop across this cluster, reservations can be automatically canceled and re-booked after traveler approval.
tripBAM is poised to bring HICKORY Partner agencies new revenue in many ways. For instance, agencies are able to charge an additional service fee to their customers, which can increase as savings are found. tripBAM enables agencies to convert net bookings to commissionable bookings, while still saving the traveler money, improves hotel attachment rates and boosts usage of HFH preferred hotels and rates. Simultaneously, tripBAM will decrease agencies' costs by automating a very labor intensive process and reducing client dependency upon RFPs and Hotel Rate Auditing.
"We are thrilled to offer a brand new, revenue generating, cost cutting technology to our network of agencies. They will be amazed at how well the system works and the savings uncovered," said Chris Dane, president of Hickory Global Partners.
"We provide agents and their customers hotel rate assurance and savings while increasing rate transparency and flexibility," said Steve Reynolds, president of tripBAM.
For more information, visit www.HickoryTravel.com/content/tripbam.
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About HICKORY – Hickory Global Partners, An INTRAVEL Company
Positioning itself as a strategic business alliance rather than a consortium, HICKORY’s unique approach focuses on return on investment for agency and supplier partners alike. HICKORY even guarantees its agency partners a positive ROI. With a suite of services including a visionary hotel incentive program, robust and one-of-a kind air program, car rental program and 24/7 support products, HICKORY is an important strategic partner to travel agencies. Proprietary, innovative tools designed to share data with agency partners allow agencies to make better, faster decisions, thus driving more revenue. These tools also enable HICKORY to aggregate bookings from agency partners. Hotelier partners gain access to a reporting platform that illustrates daily, weekly and monthly booking trends across the HICKORY network. Supplier partners also benefit from measurable results and extensive distribution and marketing opportunities across the HICKORY global network. For more information about Hickory Global Partners, visit www.HickoryTravel.com.
About tripBAM™
tripBAM™ is an innovative online hotel shopping solution which provides the transparency and flexibility travelers demand. tripBAM customers include travel agencies, corporations and travelers. For more information about the service, go to www.tripBAM.com or contact Steve Reynolds at Steve.Reynolds@tripBAM.com or at 214-363-9630.
