This year’s ITB Berlin, the world’s largest and most influential travel trade show, takes place March 9th – March 13th. bookatonce will showcase many impressive features and surprising new developments. The ITB offers visitors the perfect forum to gather all information on the newest technological developments in the tourism and hospitality industry. With more than 180,000 visitors, and over 10,000 exhibitors from 180 countries ITB Berlin is the leading B2B-platform of all tourism industry offers.

After extensive developments and implementations of innovative ideas during the last year, we can now offer our customers many new features and enhancements. The substantially growing number of users mirrors the enhanced attractiveness of bookatonce: More than 1,800 users from more than 70 countries rely on the web-based technology bookatonce by German protel hotelsoftware GmbH.

New features include:

IDS bookatonce: One of the most important new developments is that bookatonce now offers IDS interfaces and thereby gives small and medium-sized businesses the opportunity to offer their rooms online via the most important booking portals such as Expedia or hotels.com. Property owners of smaller hotels, B&Bs and inns can now choose from more than 50 different interfaces and determine which channels are best suited to sell their rooms. Users of the bookatonce Business Edition can directly connect these chosen distribution channels to their bookatonce for only five Euro a month and channel.

bookatonce on your iPad: The mobile version of bookatonce for the Apple iPad and iPhone is another impressive innovation that just recently became available. This enables property owners of smaller hotels, B&Bs and inns to offer their guests 5-star service by being able to access all data wherever they are. The apps are now available for all users of the bookatonce Business Edition in the Apple App Store.

Offer online booking in Facebook and Twitter: Do you have a Facebook fan page or a company profile and do you use Twitter to inform your guests about news on your business? Then bookatonce is the perfect solution for you: Now you can offer your guests to book your rooms within Facebook without them having to leave the site. Or you can post, or rather tweet your room deals and specials directly from bookatonce via Twitter. These functions are available for all bookatonce Business Edition users free of charge.

Facilitate booking on your website: Soon we’ll offer the newest (beta) version of our Online Booking Engine which will be even faster, will have a brand new design and many sales promotion measures. This will make booking your rooms on your website a special shopping experience for your future guests. Get a first impression of this at the ITB!

bookatonce on android devices: iPhone users have been able to work with bookatonce via their phone for a while now. In just a few weeks, all users of android devices also will benefit from being able to manage their rooms and guests wherever they are. You can look forward to a preview of the android app at the ITB!

New pricing structure: Our new pricing will make things easier to understand and suits the needs of our users even better. The bookatonce Personal Edition is free of charge and includes all functions required to manage up to five rooms. Should you have more than five rooms, the bookatonce Business Edition is the right choice for you. The Business Edition costs 2.50 Euro per month and room and includes enhanced features such as IDS connect, Facebook and Twitter booking functionality, the iPad app, the option to create individual text templates, and much more. The monthly minimum charge for the bookatonce Business Edition is 35 EUR a month.

We’ll be happy to show you all new features personally at the ITB in hall 8.1, booth 103. Please don’t hesitate to arrange a meeting between the 9th and 13th of March. Just write to sales@bookatonce.com. We’re looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!