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WRI Divisions
WRI operates two business units, the hostels division, targeting
the budget, youth and independent travel sector, and the hotels
division, focusing on online hotel reservations.
WRI Hostels Division focuses on online bookings and reservations
technology for the budget, independent, and youth travel sector,
through its hostelworld.com,
hostels.com
and other brands. WRI is the biggest global provider of confirmed
online reservations for the budget accommodation sector.
We licence our technology to over 9000 hostel and budget hotels
and to over 1000 affiliate travel websites including Ryanair.com,
Student Universe, Rail Europe, Kasbah, Airasia.com and Letsgo.com.
The division also offers reservations for adventure holidays,
activities, tours, hotels and travel insurance for the budget,
youth, and independent travel market through a range online
brands such as www.trav.com
and www.backpackertours.com.
WRI Hotels Division focuses on online hotel reservations through
trade relationships with hotel and affiliate partners.
The hotel division, under the WorldRes brand, distributes
more than 35,000 hotels in all major destinations through
a broad range of distribution partners online travel portals,
tourist boards, destination management companies and internet
service providers (ISPs).
Partners include Opodo.com, Chicago Tourism and Convention
Bureau and American Hotel and Lodging Association. Hotel partner
include the Intercontinental Group, Accor Group, Marriott
International, Hilton Hotel Group, and close to 10,000 individual
hotels. Hotel properties can be accessed by multiple call
centres, and by over 600,000 travel agents using Global Distribution
Systems such as Sabre, Galileo, Worldspan and Amadeus.
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