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If you are looking for a hotel reservations system (aka central reservations system or CRS) then you've come to the right place.  A central reservation system (CRS) is a platform used by hotels to centrally manage and distribute room inventory, rates, and reservations.

Sometimes those new to the industry confuse hotel reservations systems for a property management system or booking engine - so make sure you're in the right place before you start browsing our best vendor list below.

We’ve surveyed 333 hoteliers across more than 50 countries to understand which are the best Hotel Reservations Systems vendors, along with everything you need to know in order to buy the right Hotel Reservations Systems for your hotel (including our 2023 Hotel Reservations Systems Guide). We also aggregate key decision criteria data including integration availability, partner ecosystem, expert recommendations and more (learn more about HTR’s ranking methodology).

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Cendyn
4.4 (146 reviews)
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Hoteliers voted Cendyn as the #1 Hotel Reservations Systems provider in the 2023 HotelTechAwards
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Disconnect from legacy systems. Connect to the Pegasus CRS.
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SHR Group
4.6 (35 reviews)
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Empower your hotel with a user-centric reservation management system that works for you
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Vertical Booking
4.5 (27 reviews)
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Customizable integrated reservation solutions that support the entire guest booking cycle
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Sabre
4.2 (22 reviews)
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Streamline rate management
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Blastness
Unlock Your Hotel's Full Potential with Blastness: Your Tech Partner for Driving Direct Bookings and Optimizing Revenue Management.
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Amadeus
4.4 (46 reviews)
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Drive demand, increase direct bookings, and centralize management.
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GuestCentric
4.7 (23 reviews)
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Booking Engine & Central Reservation System
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Revinate
Revinate Reservation Sales suite empowers your reservation sales teams to work in harmony with marketing to generate more bookings and greater direct booking revenue.
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Hotel-Spider
Business intelligence tool to easily build your own dashboards and tables.
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DJUBO
Everything you need to manage your hotel better, DISTRIBUTION, MARKETING, OPERATIONS & INTELLIGENCE, all on a single platform
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Planet
4.0 (105 reviews)
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NewBook
4.8 (15 reviews)
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HotelKey
4.3 (12 reviews)
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OVERVIEW
What is Hotel Reservations Systems
Finding the right Hotel Reservations Systems solution for your hotel depends on several variables ranging from user experience and pricing to functionality and support. This guide is designed to help you identify the best Hotel Reservations Systems vendors, questions to ask on demos, read unbiased reviews from similar hoteliers and so much more. (including our 2023 Hotel Reservations Systems Guide)
BENEFITS
How can a central reservations system improve profitability and efficiency?

A central reservation system (CRS) is a platform used by hotels to centrally manage and distribute room inventory, rates, and reservations. The CRS typically receives inventory from the PMS, then distributes rates and availability in real-time to direct and third-party channels, including the hotel’s own website booking engine and call center (direct channels), as well as channel managers, OTAsGDS, and metasearch (third-party channels). Reservations from these channels are sent back to the CRS and subsequently synced into the PMS for room allocation. Hotel revenue managers and marketing/e-commerce managers use CRS or distribution systems to create various promotions and offers through rate plans for different channels and to adjust pricing quickly to be updated across all channels. Reservation agents also work in the CRS to manage reservations.

  • Increases efficiency: A CRS allows hotels to distribute their rates and inventory and receive reservations through a singular system—a hotel only needs to input rates and manage inventory through one backend instead of manually updating rates in various channels. A CRS also allows for cost efficiencies in distribution; although hotels can connect their PMS for channel distribution, CRS companies typically have the ability to integrate to different channels and partners (such as GDS and call center), giving hotels a broader reach for less cost.
  • Grows distribution: A CRS allows hotels to connect to a broad network of travel distributors, allowing the hotel to expand its reach to different types of sellers (OTAs, travel agents, consortia, etc.) in many different worldwide markets.
  • Delivers insight: A CRS gives hotel revenue managers a bird’s-eye view over their pricing and inventory allocations through all distribution channels, which allows them to quickly adapt to the market as needed.
FEATURES
What are the most important features of a central reservations system?
  1. Integrations and distribution: reservation software should integrate seamlessly with your existing property management system and allow your hotel to distribute rates and availability through a wide network of channels, including direct channels (website, call center) and third-party travel industry channels (OTAs, GDS (global distribution systems), metasearch).   The CRS should have integrated channel management capabilities to facilitate hotel distribution with OTAs (online travel agencies like Expedia and Booking).
  2. Pricing capabilities and flexibility: Every revenue manager needs a good toolset to develop a sound distribution strategy whether they work for an independent hotel or one of the major hotel chains. Your CRS partner should offer dynamic pricing tools that will give your hotel enormous flexibility when it comes to executing complex revenue strategies and selling multiple hotel room types across multiple channels. Also consider whether integrations between your revenue management, merchandising, and CRM platforms with the CRS would help to increase operational efficiency (e.g. being able to automate pricing from an RMS, being able to enter rates only once within a backend, etc.) 
  3. Booking engine / e-commerce platform: A huge deciding factor for many hospitality industry businesses is the quality of the CRS’s booking engine, which should offer conversion optimization features to encourage direct bookings and enable high volumes of online bookings. Key features include the ability to showcase strikethrough pricing, social proof, scarcity messaging, and incremental pricing, dynamic room rates, among others.  The CRS should integrate with the most user-friendly and mobile optimized booking engines on the market. Learn more in our article: What is a booking engine?
  4. Support and account management: A good CRS partner should not only provide round-the-clock customer support, but should also have active account management focused on customer success. Client services should include performance reviews with detailed analytics and reporting, as well as advice on revenue and pricing strategies. Ultimately a CRS provider provides more than just a way to take hotel reservations and should be considered a true strategic partner in hotel management.
  5. Innovation: Your CRS partner should always be seeking to enhance features, support the latest technology trends, and evolve the platform to fit the needs of today’s hotel.
PRICING
What is the typical pricing for a central reservations system?

A CRS is typically priced on a variable basis and varies by channel.  For example, direct bookings via booking engine can cost 1-5% of bookings or a flat fee per booking.  Call center reservations are generally priced on talk time or commissions and GDS is usually priced on a flat fee per booking plus membership fees.  Pricing varies dramatically in this category so make sure to compare quotes on Hotel Tech Report to find the best fit for your business.

IMPLEMENTATION
How long does it usually take for a hotel to implement new a central reservations system?

A designated implementation team will reach out to begin the implementation process, which includes completing required forms, building out the system, and proactively reaching out to third-party vendors where integrations are needed. Generally, implementation can be completed within 2-4 weeks, including staff training, provided that hotels provide all the required information in a timely manner and attend the training sessions.

FAQs
Hoteliers Also Ask
- Drives high volume of bookings: A good CRS should help a hotel to gain visibility and expand global reach across all distribution channels via dedicated channel manager, which should raise overall revenue via increased bookings and occupancy. It's also important that a hotel reservation system prevent overbooking. - Helps shift share from OTAs: A good CRS will help to shift more bookings from high-cost channels (third-party) to low-cost channels (direct ) . Hotel s with poor - performing / low-converting booking engines will often see a shift ranging from 7 to 25+% when switching to a good CRS. It’s not a panacea, however — a smart direct booking strategy also takes into account a high-converting website, well-managed digital marketing strategy, and other direct booking tools to accomplish its goals. - Direct impact on NOI (net operating income): If hotels are seeing their overall revenue increase through increased overall bookings, while simultaneously shifting more of those bookings from third-party channels to direct channels, overall profitability should increase as hotels pay out less commissions.
A central reservation system (CRS) is a platform used by hotels to centrally manage and distribute room inventory, rates, and reservations. The CRS extracts rates from your PMS (property management system) and then writes back reservations into the PMS when booked across a variety of channels like GDS and IBE. IBE stands for internet booking engine and is a somewhat dated term. Modern hoteliers have taken out the word "internet" because frankly the whole world is the internet today and it's a bit redundant. The easiest way to think about a booking engine is it's basically the shopping cart for a hotel website where (direct) bookings and payments happen.
A hotel central reservations system (CRS) is a booking engine that allows hotels to manage their online reservations and pricing through a property management system (PMS). This system integrates with various distribution channels, such as online travel agencies (OTAs) and global distribution systems (GDS), to maximize occupancy and revenue. The CRS also acts as a channel manager, allowing hoteliers to manage room availability and pricing across multiple booking platforms in real-time. Additionally, it includes features such as reservation management, revenue management, and user-friendly automation for tasks such as confirmations and check-in. The CRS also allows hotels to optimize their distribution system, by using dynamic pricing and inventory across different room types, to increase the guest experience and drive direct bookings via the hotel's own website. This system is not limited to large hotels but also applies to small hotels, inns, hostels, B&Bs, motels, vacation rentals, and even bed and breakfasts. A hotel reservation system is a software tool used by the hospitality industry to manage and distribute room inventory, pricing, and reservations. It is often comprised of a central reservation system (CRS) and a booking engine. The CRS connects to a property management system (PMS) to extract rates and write back reservations when booked through various distribution channels, including online travel agencies (OTAs) and the hotel's own website. The booking engine, which is often integrated into the CRS, is essentially the online shopping cart for a hotel's website where guests can make direct bookings and payments. This system allows hoteliers to optimize occupancy and revenue management, while also providing a user-friendly booking experience for guests. Other features of a hotel reservation system can include real-time room availability, check-in automation, customer support, and integrations with social media and other apps. The system can also be cloud-based, which allows for remote access and real-time updates.

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