Why Book on Google is Good News for Hotels
Vacation planning starts on Google. More than half of all travelers begin their travel research on a search engine, according to the experts at Google. The search engine giant’s goal has always been to help users find the results they want faster, now they want to show the information people want and keep users within [...]
What to expect from our new Media Library
Earlier this month, we shared the exciting news of our Fall ‘19/Winter ’20 Product Releases. We’re starting a new chapter at Leonardo, and Media Library is one of the many new products we’re rolling out in the coming months. This newly-design and updated Media Library will be available early 2020. What is Media Library? Media [...]
The Hidden Costs of Bed Banks for Travel Channels: a Q&A with David Sgroi
We sat down with David Sgroi, Director of Enterprise Sales at Leonardo to chat about bed banks and the hidden costs of hotel distribution. Let’s start off with an easy one: what is a bed bank? David Sgroi: A bed bank is a company that provides hotel chains’ rates, inventory, and availability wholesale to the channels that end [...]
Leonardo remains a valuable part of SiteMinder’s complete hotel distribution and representation service.
After five years of successful collaboration, the global hotel industry’s leading guest acquisition platform, SiteMinder, has re-signed its partnership agreement with Leonardo for another three years. The renewed partnership will see SiteMinder continue its use of Leonardo’s technology to distribute hotel images to GDSs, as [...]
We Are One of the First Companies to Connect to Booking .com’s New Photo API
When Booking.com told us earlier this year that they were launching a Photo API, we made it our mission to be one of the first companies to write to it. Mission accomplished. Here we are today, proud to say that we are one of the first companies to connect to Booking.com’s new Photo API. This deeper integration with Booking.com [...]
Meet the new Vizlly: The next evolution of Leonardo’s website solution is here
Since the launch of our Vizlly hotel website solution over five years ago, we’ve helped thousands of hotels across North America drive more direct bookings and revenue. Now, we’re taking our solution to the next level. We’re happy to announce that we’re re-launching Vizlly with enhanced technology and additional services. When [...]
Where in the World is Leonardo – Fall 2019 Conference Guide
This fall, members of the Leonardo Team will be travelling around the globe, attending major travel conferences in 3 different continents to meet with customers. If you are attending or located in one of the host cities, we would love to meet you in person to talk about the exciting things happening at Leonardo and some new [...]
Customer Story: Leonardo Hotels Halved Time and Doubled Distribution of Their High-Converting Images
We share more than a name: like us, Leonardo Hotels knows the value of images to the travel shopping experience. Leonardo Hotels is a division of the Fattal Group and one of the fastest growing hotel chains in Europe and Israel with more than 200 three and four-star hotels spanning over 100 destinations. Each hotel is designed [...]
Channel Spotlight: SAP Concur
Concur is one of the largest players in the arena of corporate travel and on any given day, SAP Concur processes almost two hundred thousand trips from business travelers around the globe.[1] It is one of the world’s leading providers of corporate travel management, which makes Concur one of the most powerful channels to use [...]
Feature Release: Our Hotel Images Just Got Bigger
One of the valuable features of our VScape technology is its ability to re-size a single image to fourteen different sizes for distribution to our network of travel channels. We’ve been delivering high resolution hotel images (up to 2048 pixels on the longest side) to channels for many years. As we’ve been receiving higher and [...]