Open Travel Software is providing the hospitality industry with their Hotel Management System Ô , a powerful, flexible, easy-to-use and affordable hotel and motel property management system. It is a fully functional solution that is designed to provide a robust and intuitive system that is easy to use and easy to maintain. It also has the ability to interface with the global distribution channels. The application also provides a rate management system.

Overview: A high-level overview of the system's modules follows:

Hotel Management System High-level Overview

Within each of these modules is a comprehensive set of functionality.

Hotel Management System Modules

Benefits: The application's benefits fall into three major categories: cost, features, and attributes.

Cost

•  Low acquisition cost: Free

•  Low operations cost:

•  Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

•  Open source technology base

•  Low maintenance cost:

•  Nominal maintenance costs

•  Highly competitive with similar products

Features

•  Comprehensive: All major management functions are included

•  Intuitive use: User Interface (UI) designed to support the business process

Attributes

•  Standards compliant to allow for interoperability

•  Within the global community

•  With the industry standards bodies

•  With the W3C coding conventions

•  Easily translatable: Designed to be readily translated into multiple languages (a localized interfaced, globalized data)

Future Direction:

•  GDS interface: Designed to support easy interface with the major distribution channels

•  Additional language support

•  Integrated Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system

•  Integrated web-site reservation system

•  Integrated yield management system

•  Integrated accounting module

•  Accounting export module