WIN Global Travel Network has announced a partnership with HotelPlanner, an accommodation aggregator offering live availability, a wide variety of property types and real-time booking functionality.
HotelPlanner will be launched to partners of WIN, of which the UK’s Advantage Travel Partnership is majority shareholder, with no sign-up fee on 2 January 2021, at the same time as WIN’s Global Accommodation Programme 2021 is introduced.
The HotelPlanner platform will include Airbnb and VRBO apartments, the first time this has been available on a WIN platform. WIN's 2021 accommodation programme will be substantially larger than the 35,000 properties that were available in 2020. The programme accounted for more than eight million room nights pre-pandemic.
Leigh Cowlishaw, global supplier partnership director at the Advantage Travel Partnership, said: “We understand that accommodation booking requirements have changed; our WIN partners are currently booking via a number of different channels, so we have partnered with HotelPlanner to provide them with a platform to house multiple content sources.
“This further enhances our Global Accommodation Programme proposition, which currently includes global GDS bookable rates.”