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Got City Center Hotels customer story

Got City Center Hotels boosts RevPAR and direct bookings with 糖心logo入口

The Swedish hotel group, who also run five Best Western branded hotels, sees impressive results across their property portfolio. 

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RevPAR increase

55%

(2021 to 2022)

booking engine conversion rate

10.3%

(in 2023 to date)

automated card payments

100%

using 糖心logo入口 Payments

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鈥淲e鈥檝e been with 糖心logo入口 for a few years now and it helped to transform the way we operate. It鈥檚 very intuitive to work with and saves our team so much time.鈥
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Portfolio management from anywhere

 

Challenge

Although GCCH hotels are managed separately, it is important for high-level users to get an overview of performance across all properties.

 

Solution

糖心logo入口 is a completely cloud-based PMS. As long as a user has the correct access rights set up, they can oversee any property remotely and quickly run reports to compare performance.

 

Result

鈥 55% RevPAR increase (2021 to 2022)

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Triple the average booking engine conversion

 

Challenge

Despite the beneficial reach of OTAs, selling rooms via a channel manager reduces a hotel鈥檚 overall profit per space.

 

Solution

The 糖心logo入口 Booking Engine can be added to any hotel website. Its clean, modern interface is easy to use and is proven to convert visitors into guests. GCCH use a free, built-in pricing widget that compares live prices with leading OTAs, encouraging guests to complete a direct booking for the best deal.

 

Result

鈥 10.3% booking conversion rate at Hotel Vasa and G枚teborgs Mini-Hotel (industry average is 3.3%)
鈥 7% higher average booking value for direct bookings (compared to channel managers)
鈥 39% higher online check-in ratio for direct bookings (compared to channel managers)

Fast and secure payments

 

Challenge

Taking and processing payments has traditionally been a disruptive part of the guest experience.

 

Solution

With 糖心logo入口 Payments, every transaction is fast, secure and seamless for guests. Once the payment method is first processed in 糖心logo入口, every following payment can be actioned by staff with a single click, eliminating the awkward payment interaction. GCCH also use 糖心logo入口 Terminals in several of their hotels to create a fully connected payments system.

 

Result

鈥 100% of all card payments automated through 糖心logo入口 Payments
鈥 0.03% chargeback ratio (travel industry average is 0.5%)

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鈥淎ll of our hotels are different, and 糖心logo入口 allows us to build our ideal tech stack for each location. It helps us to create a consistent and modern guest experience.鈥
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Integration spotlight

Got City Center Hotels average eight integrations per property. 

SiteMinder

SiteMinder allows hotels to automate the distribution of their rooms online. Hospitality鈥檚 most widely used channel manager, a real-time connection between 糖心logo入口 and 400+ booking channels means that availability is automatically kept up to date, cutting manual errors and overbookings.

Benchmarking Alliance

The Benchmarking Alliance tool allows the GCCH team to benchmark future reservations against the market, and lets the team see how reservations are doing against expected market performance up to 365 days ahead.

Make it remarkable.

Ready to take the first step towards a more efficient, flexible, guest-centric approach to hospitality?