Marriott debuts new distribution & booking system

Marriott International has launched a new distribution and booking system that provides authorised wholesalers, destination marketing companies, and tour operators access to real‐time rates and inventory for more than 4,200 Marriott properties around the world.

The hotel operator has partnered with Sabre Hospitality Solutions to develop and launch this new platform.

Approved wholesalers can now search real-time hotel net rates and inventory globally to create tailor‐made packages for their customers. All hotel bookings are confirmed instantly online.

"Marriott works with more than 3,000 wholesalers and we have been eager to modernise our process for collaborating with the wholesale and leisure segment. MarriottWholesalers.com provides our partners with dynamic access to a broader selection of hotel products at the best prices, and allows them to focus on serving leisure travellers,” said Drew Pinto, senior vice president, distribution, Marriott International, in a statement.

"Selecting Sabre as our technology provider brought the speed to market, experience, and capability that we needed to bring this solution to fruition," he added.

This method provides significant value to smaller wholesalers by removing the need for them to make a technology investment to gain direct, dynamic access to rates and inventory. This will also make it more efficient to distribute Marriott’s inventory to the broader leisure package segment.

Wholesalers can establish or renew access in seven languages at MarriottWholesalers.com and once authenticated, they immediately have access to the booking engine. The STARnet (www.starwoodnet.com) programme supporting wholesaler activation for Starwood hotels will continue to operate in tandem.