BookaBed travel agent forum leads to booking tech enhancements

BookaBed has enhanced its trade website following a forum with 20 UK travel agent partners.

BookaBed has enhanced its trade website following a forum with 20 UK travel agent partners.

The bed bank said feedback from the agents has been acted upon as it looks to improve the site to help agents sell its properties.

The development includes a new function enabling agents to make multiple hotel bookings under one reference number.

Agents can now simply click on an ‘Add Another Hotel’ button, prompting a new search box to appear, and the additional property can be added to the shopping basket.

A second enhancement has seen popular hotels indicated within the search results via a special icon as opposed to under a separate tab.

Darren Hall, BookaBed head of sales UK, said: “We are constantly improving and developing our site with the best technology out there.

“We have made some great new additions to the website following feedback from the forum, the best way to provide the rights tools to agents is to listen to what they need to convert sales.”

Additional enhancements have been scheduled based on feedback and these will be launched by the end of the first quarter 2014.