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Accovia Offers Dynamic Packaging Interface to Hotel Property Management Systems.


HOLLYWOOD -- Accovia PMS (Pantone Matching System) A color matching system that has a unique number assigned to more than 500 different colors and shades. This standard for the printing industry has been built into many graphics and desktop publishing programs to ensure color accuracy.  Integrator Allows Travel Packagers to Increase Revenue and Customer Service with Real-time Availability of Hotel Inventory

Accovia(TM) Inc., a leading provider of packaging technology for the travel industry, today announces the availability of its Property Management System (PMS) Integrator for the company's Selling System Platform and Logitours Classic. The PMS Integrator enables travel packagers to exchange booking information with a hotel PMS and confirm specific room availability in real-time. The PMS Integrator enhances Accovia's comprehensive Travel Package Management technology solution for procuring Procuring, in general, is the act of acquiring goods or services, usually by contract. It may refer to:
  • Procurement, a business process to acquire goods or services.
  • Procuring, the act of aiding a prostitute in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer.
, distributing and managing hotel travel components online.

"The ability to procure To cause something to happen; to find and obtain something or someone.

Procure refers to commencing a proceeding; bringing about a result; persuading, inducing, or causing a person to do a particular act; obtaining possession or control over an item; or making a person
, distribute and update hotel inventory in real-time while still protecting allotments can directly increase travel packagers' revenue and customer service," said Claude Guay, president and chief executive officer of Accovia. "Travel Packagers who are moving forward with XML XML
 in full Extensible Markup Language.

Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations.
 technologies based on OpenTravel Alliance The OpenTravel Alliance is an association which develops open data transmission specifications for the electronic exchange of business information for the travel industry, including but not limited to the use of XML.  (OTA (Over The Air) Refers to any wireless system such as AM/FM radio and network television that uses open space as its transmission medium. ) specifications will realize significant flexibility and speed to market advantages."

The Accovia PMS Integrator is a Web Service based on XML technology and OTA specifications. It facilitates the integration of hotel PMS applications into the Accovia Selling System Platform and Logitours Classic.

The PMS Integrator supports inbound in·bound 1  
adj.
Bound inward; incoming: inbound commuter traffic.

Adj. 1. inbound
 XML messages to book, modify, cancel and update hotel room inventory and existing bookings inside the package management system from the PMS. Simultaneously, an appropriate corresponding outbound message notifies the hotel PMS to block or release a room. The ability to confirm and cancel specific room numbers is a value-add function for packagers and property operators who offer a variety of accommodations such as hotel rooms, apartments, condominiums, and timeshares.

About Accovia

Accovia(TM), Inc. is a leading provider of travel packaging technology with a Travel Package Management product suite for procuring, packaging, selling and distributing multi-component travel services through GDS GDS Global Distribution System
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, call center, Internet and direct channels. Accovia's technology solutions enable travel wholesalers and retailers to significantly increase profit margins through the ability to dynamically create and customize travel packages, which can be sold under a single price. The company provides the only complete travel distribution service that links travel marketers and distributors to traditional and Internet travel channels using a single cost-effective connection. Accovia's technology solutions can be fully customized and privately labeled to accommodate diverse business models. More than 40 travel companies in 8 countries use Accovia's technology to send over 25 million people on trips each year. Founded in 1985, the company has offices in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada and France. For more information about Accovia visit www.accovia.com

Accovia is a trademark of Accovia, Inc. Any other marks used in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of the manufacturers or marketers of the products with which the marks are associated.
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