Hotelbeds and Flight Centre sign preferred deal to increase global distribution reach

With fuelling the recovery high on everyone’s agenda right now, we are pleased to announce the signing of a preferred deal with Flight Centre, one of the largest retail travel agencies in Australia.

With this deal, Hotelbeds increases its retail distribution reach in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, South Africa, Canada, the USA, India, Hong Kong, and Dubai, which means that as one of our 180,000 hotel properties, you’ll be 100% visible to all of Flight Centre’s retail clients – that’s more than 550 stores spread across 10 countries!

What’s also great is that Flight Centre joins Hotelbeds’ existing portfolio of 60,000 travel trade buyers who typically attract long-haul guests that book further in advance, choose top rated higher value properties, stay for longer, have lower cancellation rates and spend more at the property - so this is a great win-win for us and for you!

As part of this partnership, Flight Centre will connect to Hotelbeds’ product portfolio via our API solutions, as well as offer its clients ancillary services from the Beyond The Bed portfolio of Hotelbeds, which comprises 25,000 transfer routes, 18,000 activities in more than 680 destinations, and 30,000 pick-up locations in 170 countries.

Announcing this great deal, León Herce, Global Sales Director at Hotelbeds said: “We are very excited to announce our preferred partnership with Flight Centre. Not only is Flight Centre one of the largest retail travel in Australia but it also has many outlets on high streets in leading source markets worldwide.

“This is great news for our 180,000 hotel property partners worldwide, all of whom place great value on retail travel agency guests - not least from long-haul source markets such as Australia, New Zealand, UK, South Africa, Canada, the USA, India, Hong Kong, and Dubai.”

Michelle Connolly, Global Procurement Leader – Leisure at Flight Centre, added: “We’re very excited to start this preferred partnership with Hotelbeds and its retail travel brand, Bedsonline.  We have ambitious plans to grow further and extend our sales reach to more international markets, and Hotelbeds is the right partner to do so due to its extensive global portfolio with some of the most special deals and rates. We feel certain that our retail customers will provide the perfect guests for Hotelbeds’ hotel partners, making this a great win-win situation for everyone.”