The Australian Tourism Booking Widget (Booking Widget), a government funded project delivered through the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse (ATDW) in partnership with its technology supplier V3 will remain free to access for Australian Tourism Operators in 2015. The Booking Widget has been a successful project facilitating online bookings for small tourism operators who for [...]
TXA, a leader in the tourism booking exchange industry, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Booking.com, one of world’s top online travel agencies (OTA). Booking.com B.V., part of the Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN), is a world leader in online booking of accommodation. Each day, over 700,000 room nights are reserved on Booking.com. [...]
Building on the existing partnership between Tourism Exchange Australia (TXA) and TripAdvisor, TXA announced a major new co-operative digital initiative for the Australian tourism industry using TripAdvisor’s new TripConnect tool. This initiative results from TXA’s certification as a TripAdvisor Premium Partner for TripConnect. TripConnect is a powerful new tool for SME accommodation Suppliers to generate [...]
Tourism Exchange Australia (TXA) today finalised a new distributor relationship with a connection to Agoda.com, one of the fastest growing online hotel platforms worldwide. Agoda.com has a listing of hundreds of thousands of hotels and provides services available in 38 languages. A brand of the Priceline Group, Agoda.com has strong operations in Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala [...]
Exciting news! The Expedia group, the largest online travel company in the world, is now working with Tourism Exchange Australia (TXA) to provide Australian accommodation supplier’s exposure to the more than 50 million travelers that shop for and book travel on Expedia group sites each month. The brands within the Expedia group represent some of [...]
Australian distribution strategy could be template for other tourism boards The US government recently released its first progress report since launching its ambitious plan to brand America and grow visitor numbers to the country. Overall the results are positive and intent to visit is up. This is the first time that the US has had [...]
Jewel Business Solutions (JBS) has launched a new Point of Sale and Internet Booking System, the ‘Jewel Integrated Booking System’ (JIBS). This system is specifically designed for Visitor Information Centres and Tour Desks, to manage the sale of Tours, Accommodation, Express Coach Services and Merchandise. Live booking and confirmation from JIBS is enabled using Tourism [...]
Another major step forward in the development of Tourism Exchange Australia (TXA) was marked today, with BookEasy announcing that its well-established software solution for Visitor Information Centres (VICs), is now connected to TXA. The connection will provide VICs using BookEasy with direct access to TXA supplementing their range of Australian tourism product and inventory. “Clients [...]
"An excellent example of a well focussed digital migration initiative," - Martin Ferguson. Australia has fallen behind in the online marketing of our tourism products. While traditional distribution channels will remain important, we need to rapidly embrace digital platforms that enable Australian and international visitors to research and book their holidays online. We need [...]
Travel marketing and software provider V3 (Vcubed Pty Ltd), today announced the launch of a direct connection to MICROS-Fidelio’s distribution platform; myfidelio.net to its Open Booking Exchange (OBX™) technology. The connection will enable hotels using the myfidelio.net, distribution platform to immediately, and easily, present their rooms with live price and availability to a multitude [...]