
Company Profile
roomsXML is an online hotel rooms distribution system that's a single online access point to 80,000 global hotels. roomsXML aggregates content from a number of the worlds leading wholesalers through a single website. Our comparison and filtration engine sorts results for real time availability at the best price.
roomsXML supports the industry by not selling direct to the public
The massive unique inventory, cutting-edge technology solutions, business process and experience makes roomsXML one of the worlds leading online hotel aggregators. Sey points of roomsXML include
- A single point of access to over 80,000 global hotels and apartments
- over 15,000 global transfers
- Real time, net rates, local currency fixed at time of purchase
- Online hotels via the "software as a service" business model
- focus on providing not only a great product but excellent customer service to travel agents
roomsXML was created by WebSource following our experience with a number of large in-house travel systems in Europe. We have a a technical centre in India, major offices in Melbourne and London as well as roomsXML only offices including Kiev, Cyprus, Florida and Saudi Arabia.
Each partner has absolute discretion in running the business in their devoted region, ensuring excellent relationships with customers and the ability to make independent dynamic business decisions.
WebSource Pacific was established as an Australian-based offshore development company in 2004 is a joint-venture between Mark Luckey and Prakash Bang, India . WebSource has delivered projects using resources from IT vendors spread across Hyderabad, Pune, Bangalore and Mumbai encompassing skill sets of SAP, Microsoft, Joomla and iPhone and iPad.
Mark Luckey is managing director of roomsXML Australia New Zealand and has used his global software development experience to ensure extremely cost efficient product and service provision through roomsXML, resulting in a lean and highly efficient organisation.
"I love the cultural exchange. We have a highly skilled on-site backed by the firepower of hundreds of technical staff offshore. Our business model gives us the delivery potential of significantly larger organisations but with greater flexibility and significantly lower prices.
In 2011 Mark delivered a series of lectures on social media in the travel space to the Australian Travel Agents Cooperative encouraging them to improve their marketing and communication to compete with online travel agencies. He has also written a number of articles for online publications including etravelblackboard, providing travel agents with tips and tricks on how to stay competitive.
Marks wife Sasha also works in the business and roomsXML has fantastic staff in Matt Paterson in customer service and Andrew Patterson as a technical lead. They are backed by our offshore customer service team led by Janis, Ruchir, Surajeet, Pushpahas, Mrunalini and Rosemary.
Since the first booking in 2006, roomsXML Australia has grown to be an important alternative hotel wholesaler. Our client base includes a preferred arrangement with ATAC, franchises who are part of the JTG Group, Travel Associates, FC and a number of independents.
http://www.roomsxml.com/
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