Booking.com Releases Duo of Data-driven Partner Products

TORONTO – JUNE 30, 2016 –Booking.com, the global leader in connecting travellers with the widest choice of incredible places to stay, today announced that it is rolling out two free, on-demand, data-driven products to its more than 950,000 accommodation partners worldwide. Together, Booking.com Analytics and the Opportunity Center empower property owners to grow their businesses with bespoke, actionable data and advice that is delivered in real time, powered by a customizable dashboard of industry-leading data. Available now globally, the two products are just one of the standard perks of a partnership with Booking.com.

“Finding new and increasingly personalized ways to help support our global community of accommodation partners is what drives us to keep innovating,” said Remco van Zanten, Global Director of Partner Services at Booking.com. “We know that our partners are hungry for more data and actionable insights to help them increase the revenue they make via our platform. These new tools provide our busy partners with access to relevant data and advice when it’s convenient for them. It’s all about hyper-customized content delivered in real time so our partners can take their businesses to the next level.”

The Booking.com Analytics dashboard currently features four main reports, including two sales performance reports. The forward-looking Pace Report gives partners the ability to benchmark their sales on Booking.com compared with the previous year, and compare their performance with aggregated data from their competitors. The Sales Statistics report provides an easy-to-digest snapshot of a property’s sales performance over the past year. The dashboard also contains two reports that focus on booker behavior: Booker Insights gives in-depth insights about country of origin, which devices were used to book, and travel purpose, and Book Window Info focuses on how far in advance Booking.com customers are booking their accommodations.

To dive even deeper into the numbers, partners can compare their data with the following:

• Last year (own data)
• Peer group—all properties of the same type and star rating (if applicable) in a partner’s destination
• Competitive set—10 properties of the partner’s choice
• Market—all properties in the partner’s destination, regardless of type or star rating

Partners can also slice and dice the data for more insight into:

• Ranking—with their different custom and predefined groups of competitors
• Different date ranges—7, 14, 30, 60, 90, or 365 days
• Delta changes over time

The reports are populated throughout with handy user-friendly tips that help guide partners of various backgrounds through the data and explain all the various definitions used in the dashboard reports.

The industry-leading data contained in the dashboard is harnessed by a proprietary logic that converts it into a prioritized list of actionable business advice called the Opportunity Center. Partners can quickly browse the opportunities, select the most relevant options for their property, and instantly implement them to enhance their listing and bring in more business through Booking.com. After making the suggested adjustments, partners can then return to the analytics dashboard to easily monitor the results of their efforts, track their progress over time, and identify new areas for potential growth.

Booking.com Analytics and the new Opportunity Center are now available globally in 42 languages to all of Booking.com’s accommodation partners on their Extranet. New reports will continue to be added over the coming weeks, including the RateIntelligence dashboard from BookingSuite for those partners who’ve already signed up for the product.

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CONTACT DETAILS

For further information, contact the Booking.com Canadian Press Office;

Hwee Yee Tan (Hwee)

hwee@punchcanada.comD. 416-360-6522 ext.234

M. 416-770-0646

About Booking.com:

Booking.com is the world leader in booking hotel and other accommodations online. It guarantees the best prices for any type of property – from small independents to five-star luxury. Guests can access the Booking.com website anytime, anywhere from their desktops, mobile phones and tablet devices, and they don’t pay booking fees – ever. The Booking.com website is available in 42 languages, offers over 950,000 hotels and accommodations including more than 457,000 vacation rental properties, and covers more than 92,000 destinations in 224 countries and territories worldwide. It features over 95 million reviews written by guests after their stay, and attracts online visitors from both leisure and business markets around the globe. With over 19 years of experience and a team of over 11,000 dedicated employees in more than 176 offices worldwide, Booking.com operates its own in-house customer service team, which is available 24/7 to assist guests in their native languages and ensure an exceptional customer experience.

Established in 1996, Booking.com B.V. owns and operates Booking.com™, and is part of The Priceline Group (NASDAQ: PCLN). Follow us on Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest, like us on Facebook, or learn more at http://www.booking.com.