Guesty integrates YieldPlanet’s synergetic technology directly into the Guesty platform to offer enhanced capabilities for hospitality distribution, revenue management and additional short-term rental and hotel OTA connections on the Guesty Distribution Hub

Los Angeles, California – September 14, 2022: Guesty, the leading property management platform for the short-term rental and hospitality industry, today announced the acquisition of hotel-focused revenue and distribution platform, YieldPlanet. The acquisition expands Guesty’s offerings and capabilities for traditional hotels, with YieldPlanet’s technology integrated within the Guesty platform. Unveiling a new Guesty Distribution Hub, the platform will add direct OTA connections with Hopper, Trip.com, Marriott Homes & Villas and Google’s Hotel & Vacation Rental Search Products, and will allow hospitality operators to manage a classic hotel repertoire, revenue and vacation rental offerings from one dashboard.  

The YieldPlanet acquisition and launch of Guesty Distribution Hub comes upon the heels of Guesty’s recent $170 million funding round, from top-tier investors Apax Digital Funds, MSD Partners and Sixth Street Growth, with existing investors Viola Growth and Flashpoint also participating. The capital signals investor confidence in the continued growth of the travel and alternative accommodation industry, and is an endorsement of Guesty’s pioneering technology, long-term strategy and position as market leader in the hospitality and property management software sector.

“With PMCs competing for diverse consumers and travel personas seeking every accommodation under the sun, we are thrilled to offer additional distribution for our Guesty users through direct integration of YieldPlanet and the formation of the Guesty Distribution Hub,” says Yair Holtzer, VP of Strategy at Guesty. “Guesty will offer direct integration with Hopper, Trip.com, Marriott Homes & Villas and Google’s suite of Travel Search products, joining our already impressive OTA integration with Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Expedia, Tripadvisor, Agoda, and misterb&b. We will also maintain additional integrations through our valued partnerships. The product enhancements solidify Guesty’s status as the leading flexible Property Management Platform.” 

Guesty Distribution Hub is the first ever fully holistic hospitality distribution solution. Guesty customers will now access hundreds of hotel and short-term rental distribution channels (Booking Engine, Metasearch, OTA, and GDS), along with integrated financial tools from one dashboard. 

“Joining forces with Guesty marks an exciting new chapter for YieldPlanet, allowing us to strengthen and scale our revenue and channel management solutions,” says Claudio Limacher, CEO of YieldPlanet.  “We will continue to grow YieldPlanet and will now offer direct distribution from within Guesty’s platform,  offering  their clients exciting new opportunities to grow and expand their businesses.” 

“YieldPlanet’s technology, expertise, R&D team, and hotel-focus were a natural fit to join the Guesty family and continue our long-term goal to become the one-stop shop for the hospitality and short-term rental ecosystem,” says Amiad Soto, CEO & Co-Founder of Guesty. “YieldPlanet’s technology within the Guesty platform, offers best-in-class revenue management, along with its price optimizer product for hotels. Our customers now have access to the widest distribution options on the market from one single dashboard.” 

For media inquiries, please contact: 

Daniel Morgan, Director of Communications 

daniel.morgan@guesty.com 

About Guesty: 

Guesty is the world’s leading property management platform for the short-term, vacation rental and hospitality industry. Serving everyone from hosts to hotel brands, customers utilize Guesty’s platform and solutions to centralize their reservations, guest communication, operational tasks, cleaning management and more across all the major booking OTA channels, including Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Tripadvisor, Expedia, Agoda, direct booking websites and more. With 14 offices serving customers worldwide, Guesty empowers hospitality operators to save time and resources so that they can focus on maximizing occupancy, ensuring a great guest experience, and growing their business.

About YieldPlanet: 

YieldPlanet is a SaaS provider delivering travel technology solutions for revenue and distribution management. The company’s easy-to-use solutions synchronize with property management software to provide a single point of control for channels, reducing labor time, administrative cost and increasing distribution. The company services more than 4,000 clients in over 85 countries around the world, with offices in Spain, Switzerland and Poland.

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We are happy to announce that YieldPlanet has released a new version connectivity with Trip.com! Trip.com, the global travel service provider is a part of Trip.com Group. They have successfully provided over 300 million members with an extensive collection of wireless applications, hotel and air ticket reservations, vacations, and business travel management. New Trip.com connectivity brings multiple benefits to its users:

• the possibility of creating an unlimited number of rate plans and rate plan management
• supporting per day as well as occupancy-based pricing
• saving inventory on room level rather than on rate plan level as in the previous version
• simple mapping process and similar to other top OTAs
• Speedy rate and inventory distribution

New connectivity is available for all YieldPlanet’s Channel Manager users under the Trip.com RatePlans channel.

You can find more information about our connections here.

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Article provided by UHRA.

Ukrainian hotels since the beginning of the war in many cities serve as hubs to accommodate refugees, cook hot lunches and provide outside catering during evacuation from different war inflamed areas for Ukrainian defenders and volunteers. The hotels also provide storage space for humanitarian assistance, Red Cross aid and other activities aimed to support suffering civilians. Recently the Ukrainian hotels launched an action “Visit Ukraine In Future”, aimed to support Ukrainian hospitality industry, that takes part in providing rear support for the military actions and carrying significant financial expenses since the war began.

The State Agency for Tourism Development and the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy had officially supported the action initiated by the Ukrainian Hotel and Resort Association (UHRA) on behalf of the hospitality industry’s community.

People from all over the world who care about supporting Ukraine, its economy, and hospitality industry can make “donated booking” of rooms at Ukrainian hotels for any date throughout the year of 2022. Hospitality industry representatives specify that they would welcome guests visiting Ukraine right after Ukraine’s victory.

“Tourism industry, similar to any other sphere – suffer from war quite significantly. Whereas, in Kyiv for example some hotels provide support to the territorial defense, military personnel, cook and deliver food to defenders. In the temporarily occupied cities any activities have almost been suspended, and the hotels still use opportunities if any to help the local population” – told Ms. Mariana Oleskiv, head of the State Agency for Tourism Development.

“We have a lot of inquiries from colleagues from all over the world, and we see great willingness of the world community to support Ukraine in general, and its tourism sphere in particular. And therefore, we’ve got such an idea jointly with the professional Association to provide an option right away to book future trips to Ukraine. It would let people support the tourism industry. After our victory they would visit and see our cities, our people, whose courage is currently respected by the wholeworld.” – added Ms. Oleskiv.

“Beginning the very first day of the initiative, it was already supported by dozens of hospitality entities. Such hotels list is updated regularly at the Ukrainian Hotel and Resort Association www.uhra.com.ua and informational portal Visit UKRAINE https://visitukraine.today. A “donated booking” can be done via these hotels’ websites. A donation amount depends on the number of nights you wish to pay by a credit card, and the amounts start from 40-50 Eur per night independently of a booking season”. – says Ms. Irina Sidletska, President of Ukrainian Hotel and Resort Association (UHRA).

She added that the Association receives multiple inquiries from colleagues of foreign hotel associations – HOTREC members, that are willing to support the hospitality industry and Ukrainians, who suffer from the actions of the neighboring country-aggressor.

“This action is a simple way to support hotels, that during a period of forced downtime take part in supporting the rear. Foremost, in the active military fighting areas, hotels serve as an important link in temporary accommodation of evacuated civilians, meals cooking, humanitarian aid points organizing and household services. And it means expenses not obvious from the first glance, such as hotel staff work payment, food procurement, security etc.” – the Association representatives said.

“This is a direct and efficient way of support for hospitality entities, when there’s an opportunity to book and prepay any number of nights for any period throughout the year of 2022 in a hotel, which you selected to support. The obtained payment would allow hotels to work in the mode of providing support to the military rear, and in the future when this nightmare ends to welcome its donors”, – stated the head of the Ukrainian Hotel and Resort Association (UHRA).

On March 5th Bloomberg agency reported that Airbnb renting service received bookings for almost US$ 2m in Ukraine from people, who are not accommodated in the booked rooms, while just wanting to provide financial support for Ukrainians suffering from war. According to the general director of Airbnb Brian Chesky, there were about 61 thousand nights booked in Ukraine by March 2nd – 3rd. Almost three quarters of the bookers were from the US, UK, and Canada.

About UHRA:

• UHRA – Ukrainian Hotel & Resort Association – is a non-profit public entity serving as an umbrella for volunteer engaged member hotel and resort facilities and hotel development companies working in Ukraine with the aim to foster steady development of the industry. Since its foundation in October 2020, 92 hotels from 23 regions of Ukraine with more than 5000 employees in total had joined the Association. New and existing members are free to join or finish membership with the Association.
  For details, please use the following contacts: telegram Uhra2022, +380443913020, office@uhra.com.ua, web: www.uhra.com.ua

Additional information about SATD and Visit Ukraine:

• The State Agency for Tourism Development of Ukraine (SATD) is the central body of executive power that implements the state policy in the field of tourism and resorts (except for the implementation of state supervision (control) in the field of tourism and resorts). The work of the SATD is coordinated by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine through the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine. According to the Cabinet Decree No 995, the State Agency for Tourism Development of Ukraine was created on December 3, 2019. On March 3, 2020 Chairperson of the SATD became Maryana Oleskiv.

Contact information:

Email: dart@tourism.gov.ua

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DARTUkraine/

Telegram: @DARTUkraine

Website: https://www.tourism.gov.ua/

• Visit Ukraine is the national association in the field of tourism with an information portal for foreign tourists travelling in Ukraine and Ukrainians planning a trip abroad.
  For 5 years we have presented Ukraine to the whole world. Over the past 2 years, we have helped more than 5 million foreign citizens learn about Ukraine, its incredible places, the rules for crossing the Ukrainian border, how to safely enter, and also stay in the country during a pandemic. Every day, more than 1,000 people apply to the round-the-clock hotline (online chats and call center) regarding entry and exit to/from Ukraine.
  On February 24, 2022, at 5 am, Russia declared war on Ukraine and attacked our country and its civilian population.
  Since that day, Visit Ukraine has been transformed into an information portal for help, where every Ukrainian and foreign citizen can get the necessary information on how to act in a critical situation, where to go, addresses of bomb shelters, how to leave the country or evacuate from a dangerous region, how to enter Ukraine to support our freedom and independence, etc.
  The hotline management team is scattered throughout Ukraine, but we are still in touch 24/7! And we will continue to work for everyone who cares about Ukraine!
  To donate, please, visit https://uhra.com.ua/en/donane-us-en/. 

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Airbnb announced that Airbnb.org will offer free, short-term housing to up to 100,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine and they need your help to achieve this. These stays will be funded by Airbnb, Inc., donors to the Airbnb.org Refugee Fund, and the generosity of Hosts through Airbnb.org.

There is an imminent need for short-term accommodation and people who open their homes in nearby countries, including Poland, Hungary, Romania, Germany, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, France, Netherlands, UK and Ireland.

• If you are already hosting on Airbnb, you can go ahead and opt-in your existing listings by following the opt-in flow here. Please see here recording of the opt-in flow.
• You will be offered to choose whether you want to host free of charge or at a discounted price. These stays will be funded by Airbnb.org.
• All your bookings will come in as a request to book which you will have to review and accept. Please ensure your calendar is up to date.
• Airbnb Host fee is waived for free and discounted Airbnb.org stays.

• If you are not hosting on Airbnb, but are interested in offering housing for refugees, please follow the sign up flow for Airbnb.org here. Please note: If a new listing is created via the Airbnb.org flow, it will only be available to Airbnb.org guests and you will be able to offer it only for free of charge. For listings to be visible on both Airbnb.com and Airbnb.org and to be able to offer it with payment, you will need to first create your listings on Airbnb.com here and then opt into Airbnb.org here.

We know that Hosts and guests on Airbnb around the world will be eager to stand up and assist this massive effort to help those fleeing Ukraine. Airbnb.org will work directly through nonprofits on the ground, who are responsible for booking and coordinating stays for refugee guests. Airbnb is also dedicated to the safety of Hosts and guests in Ukraine, and are actively working to support the local community.

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We are very glad that we can continue to contribute to our clients’ growth, develop solutions we deliver to all channel manager users, and satisfy and benefit our customers by working hand in hand with industry professionals, despite all the difficulties the whole world is facing lately.

Being a preferred software partner status means for YieldPlanet Team to work directly with the Airbnb IT team and benefit from technical and business advice.

What does it mean for hoteliers and vacation rental owners?

In October of 2018, Airbnb launched the Preferred Software Partner program to provide relevant criteria by which they could recognize best-in-class tools for all hosts. Airbnb’s preferred partner status requires software providers to meet stringent baseline standards to be able to connect and to provide an exceptional level of service.

This is how Airbnb strives to invest in the strength and powerful integrations to provide their hosts with convenient and smooth experience from the connection. Airbnb identifies the Preferred Software Partners twice each year as a part of their recurring assessment process.

 “In order to satisfy customers and keep Preferred Partner status YieldPlanet’s developers work constantly on making existing connections smarter and more advanced. We are happy to have a chance of working directly with Airbnb IT team and benefit from technical and business advice that is a part of Preferred Partner program”, – Tomasz Fitulski, Chief Information Officer, YieldPlanet

Want to learn more? If you have any questions or if you want to connect your Channel Manager to Airbnb, contact our sales team to get more details.

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We are very proud to be integrated with near 500 partners and the list of our connections is constantly growing. Meet our latest integrations, which can help you to develop a daily routine, achieve much more and get much better results of your work:

Cosmobeds. With over 30 years of experience in the travel industry, Cosmobeds is an accommodation specialist and Destination Management Company. Offering easy access to their portfolio via their B2B platform, available for Tour Operators, Bed Banks, Travel Agents, Wholesalers and OTAs worldwide.

Ulyses PMS (by Tesipro). Ulyses PMS is a cloud-based system for apartments and hotels. It will help properties to automate processes and increase direct bookings.

Seven Stars PMS (by ClassOne). Considered as Smart Hotel Management System, it combines the PMS functionalities with a mobile application – Customer Web Mobile allowing better communication between a hotel and customers.

We and our partners are constantly evolving to be even more useful to you.  It helps our clients reach global and regional markets, simplify everyday work and maximize a revenue of their business. Meet major updates to established channels:

Expedia has recently launched a reservation recovery mechanism that will further improve reservation accuracy for hotels using channel managers.
YieldPlanet as one of the first technology providers has implemented reservation recovery mechanism aiming to reduce reservation incidents furthermore.
The mechanism will help hoteliers to get any reservation from Expedia on demand and send it to a PMS.
YieldPlanet has also improved the pace of sending rates, allotment and restrictions to Expedia as well as provided more transparent information on Expedia linked rate plans loaded to the channel manager.

Airbnb connection has been upgraded with CTD parameters. CTD or “closed to departure” helps property owners to manage travelers check-out days.
CTD combined with CTA or minimum stay can help hoteliers to sell stays of exact length, Saturday to Saturday for instance or stays over full public holidays period.

Do you want to learn more about each of these partners? Visit our Interactive Integration List page to get more information about YieldPlanet’s integrations.

If you have any questions please contact support@yieldplanet.com.

We are very proud to be integrated with near 500 partners and the list of our connections is constantly growing. Meet our latest integrations, which can help you to develop a daily routine, achieve much more and get much better results of your work:

FlexMyRoom is the technology solution to protect hotels from booking cancellations, secure their cash flow and increase their sales. For each hotel reservation, FlexMyRoom associates travel assistance insurance and cancellation insurance. Hotels will protect their guests against unforeseen events and protect their sales.

UbikOS is a company with more than 10 years of experience working in the hospitality industry. It is a multiplatform system that works from any browser and any operating system, giving their customers the flexibility to access the system from anywhere and being able to get reports in real-time. UbikOS PMS includes: 360 platform digitizing all hotel processes, it also helps to manage and control the storage, cleaning, hotel maintenance etc.

We and our partners are constantly evolving to be even more useful to you.  It helps our clients reach global and regional markets, simplify everyday work and maximize a revenue of their business. Meet major updates to established channels:

Booking.com properties can configure the setup of taxes and charges in the extranet. These setups are reflected on the frontend, a confirmation email to the customer and confirmation to the hotel. Properties in Booking.com can specify how VAT and city tax are calculated and can set up to 5 extra charges. YieldPlanet has started displaying these taxes and charges in reservations sourcing from Booking.com as well as has introduced Payment Clarity Package which covers more information on virtual credit cards.

BookVisit designs Internet based solutions that enhance the business performance and profitability of tourist organisations, destination management organisations, inbound tour operators, hotel groups and resorts worldwide. With over 15 years experience in developing solutions for the hospitality industry they are committed to secure customer’s digital success. Now the connection between YieldPlanet andBookVisit has been improved so that data distribution is even faster than before.

HRS shares reservations with YieldPlanet in real-time. Due to recent development HRS orders are registered in the Channel Manager just seconds after they are made in the HRS platform.

Do you want to learn more about each of these partners? Visit our Interactive Integration List page to get more information about YieldPlanet’s integrations.

If you have any questions please contact support@yieldplanet.com.

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We are happy to announce that YieldPlanet has become HRS IT Preferred Partner 2020!

The HRS Group is a global tech company with a focus on business travel. HRS is one of the market leaders in the global business travel market, and in Europe one of the top three hotel portals. As an outsourcing provider for global corporations, the company simplifies the processes related to hotel stays and offers travel managers and the travelers themselves forward-looking solutions.

Despite challenging times YieldPlanet and HRS have recently strengthened cooperation providing hotel users new connectivity options. As a result all reservations made on HRS platforms are registered in YieldPlanet in real time what reduces reservation retrieval from previous 5 minutes to a few seconds now. Hoteliers can also benefit from extending reservation details with credit card data which simplifies collecting payments for hotel stays.

“With cautious hope we are looking for the first sights of business travel recovery in 2021 and will do our best to constantly improve our connectivities and bring new solutions to the Channel Manager” – Tomasz Fitulski, YieldPlanet’s Chief Information Officer

We are looking forward to working on next developments in 2021 and keep the status of HRS IT Preferred Partner in next year as well.

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We are delighted to announce that YieldPlanet has become a Booking.com Premier Partner for another year in a row. Despite this challenging year and all the difficulties that we had to go through in 2020, we are very glad that we can continue to contribute to our clients growth and benefit all YieldPlanet’s users by working hand in hand with industry professionals.

Booking.com is a leading OTA worldwide and an industry front runner in measuring overall provider performance and grant standard, advanced and premier status to its channel manager partners. Being a premier partner of Booking.com is a privilege, but also an outstanding responsibility for being presented among the leading partners, by providing high quality standards to the market and showing great results.

“Being awarded Premier Partner status for 2020 performance was more than a challenge in the time of a pandemic. YieldPlanet achieved that goal by the end of 2020 although most of our competitors were given additional 3 months to complete the programme. With cautious hope we are looking for the first sights of industry recovery in 2021 and will do our best to constantly keep hotel revenue growth in the centre of our actions this year” – Paweł Rytel

We are looking forward to working on our common results in 2021 and keep the status of a premier partner in order to deliver our clients the newest solutions for their fast development.

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We are very proud to be integrated with over 450 partners and the list of our connections is constantly growing. Meet our latest integrations, which can help you to develop a daily routine, achieve much more and get much better results of your work:

Do you want to learn more about each of these partners? Visit our Interactive Integration List page to get more information about YieldPlanet’s integrations.

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YieldPlanet finished the integration with Prestige PMS. The two-way integration enables hoteliers to integrate YieldPlanet’s Channel Manager with Prestige’s PMS. 

Prestige Software offers an integrated hotel management system. The solutions are highly innovative, both technologically and functionally, to be able to face the challenges in a business environment as competitive as tourism. 

This two-way integration enables hoteliers to connect YieldPlanet’s Channel Manager to deliver powerful, easy to use distribution solutions that are fully PCI and GDPR compliant and built with security in mind. The YieldPlanet team is here to support users of Prestige PMS to upgrade to a reliable and secure distribution solution.

Get in touch here or write to us at  sales.spain@yieldplanet.com

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