New Service

Chat with our Customer Care

Your direct connection to Customer Care: Our service team is now also available via Webchat. If you login to the seekda! connect input mask or the customer area of our Website, you will find a window on the bottom right of the screen in which you can exchange written messages with our Customer Care during their duty hours (9 a.m. to 5p.m.). We’re looking forward to chat with you! Of course you can still reach us via phone (+43 1 2365084-28/-31) and e-Mail ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

Release 08/2010

New Booking Overview with History

By means of the most recent developments of seekda, you can now get an overview over your bookings even easier: New search functionalities via handy dropdown boxes help you to narrow down your bookings e. g. according to the time the booking has taken place. Besides that, you can now view the history of each booking. This way, you know immediately when a booking has occurred and if and when its status has changed.

New Channel

Linkage of Booking.com to the seekda! connect channel manager

With Booking.com, we have linked one of the most important booking platforms worldwide to the seekda! connect channel manager. This way, you can reach numerous potential guests from all over the world – easy as never before: Via switch to seekda! connect, you can maintain booking.com at the same time as all your other channels.

Release 07/2010

Maintaining Rooms and Availabilities Even More Conveniently

The recent innovations in the seekda! connect input mask simplify working with room types and availabilities for you: If you want to set up one or more room types based on data similar to already existing rooms, you can copy these and then adjust them individually. The completely redesigned availability calendar facilitates your work as well: With help from a new color design you can now perceive the availability state of your rooms at a glance and change it directly in the overview.

Workshop

Tourism Related Companies Inform themselves of Internet Distribution

How the technology of seekda! connect works, how to position oneself best in online distribution and much more – this is what the participants of the workshop which seekda has organized in collaboration with Amadeus and HSMA on July, 15, in Hall/Tirol. Around 15 visitors from the hotel business, tourism consultancies and other tourism related companies discussed the benefits and methods of modern Internet distribution in the special atmosphere of castle Hasegg. If you have missed this seminar we would be glad to welcome you at one of our next events – we will announce all dates on this page. Of course you can get in touch with us personally under This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it anytime.

Mag. Bernhard Rieder, seekda Sales & Marketing Director, explains the demands of a hotel website.

Talk

Fit for Online Distribution

The talk about e-Tourism given by experts from seekda and the online marketing agency fit4biz in cooperation with the local tourism association in St. Anton on June 29 has attracted wide interest: Numerous hoteliers from the area informed themselves on the latest developments in online booking and increase of occupancy rates via Internet. Now they are fit for online distribution.

Practical applications for e-Tourism: DI Klaus Niederacher from seekda (with the microphone) outlines the benefits of Internet distribution with seekda! connect. On the left-hand side: Mag. Bernhard Rieder and Ing. Mag. Karl Zeller (fit4biz).

Release 06/2010

Optimization of Apartment Distribution

By one of the recent novelties from seekda! connect, providers of big suites, holiday apartments and homes optimize their occupancy rates: If they define a minimum occupancy of e. g. ten persons for specific lodgings, these will only be displayed - and thus made bookable - at retrievals for ten or more guests. Moreover, we have added further options for the flexible pricing of apartments and other larger lodgings. Landlords who need several days for preparing arrivals due to logistic reasons, benefit from another novelty: Now, a deadline for bookings of e. g. three days before arrival can be set.

Workshop

Event for Hoteliers: How to Benefit from e-Tourism

How can hoteliers benefit from the Internet? Who is the e-Tourist of today and how does he differ from “normal” holidaymakers? What is important for potential guests who want to book online? These and many other questions around the topic e-Tourism will be answered by experts from seekda and the travel technology provider amadeus in the course of a free workshop on July 15 in castle Hasegg in Hall/Tyrol. Besides the lectures a discussion forum and personal conversations will take place. Please find further information here.

Honored Partner

Travel Technology Provider Pegasus Awarded with CIO 100 Award

Great honor for the seekda partner company Pegasus Solutions: The travel technology provider which makes dozens of indirect channels accessible for seekda! connect channel manager customers, has been honored with a CIO 100 award. The renowned IT journal CIO Magazine awards the prize to companies that are not only innovating with IT, but creating genuine business value as well. This year, Pegasus is the only travel technology provider awarded with a CIO 100 Award.

New Product

A Homepage for your Establishment – Easily and Quickly Created with seekda! connect go-on!

Going online with an own homepage, offering and selling rooms there and attract considerably more guests – this works easier and faster than ever before with our new application seekda! connect go-on. You just have to decide between different templates and color themes, input your establishment specific texts and yet, a ready page is created and placed in the Internet. A solution for automatic sale of your available rooms via the Homepage is already integrated. We offer seekda! connect go-on for an extraordinarily favorable price. This way, you can participate in the boom of e-Tourism without great cost.

New Switch

Manage Feratel by seekda! connect channel manager

The popular destination management system Feratel is now associated with the seekda! connect channel manager via switch. A considerable simplification for all accommodation establishments which are represented in Feratel: They do not have to report their availabilities separately to the destination management system anymore but may manage it at the same time as all other distribution channels.

New Switch

Data Transfer with Hotel Software Casablanca Automatizes Booking Process

With the recently integrated switch between seekda! connect and the hotel software Casablanca, the online booking process may be completely automatized now: Availabilities will be electronically transferred from Casablanca to seekda! connect and bookings will be directly fed into the hotel software from seekda! connect – without one single stroke. A massive work simplification, which helps avoiding errors and overbookings in addition!

Award

3rd prize for seekda in adventure X

seekda GmbH has been awarded the 3rd prize in the Tyrolean business plan competition adventure X. The company has won out over many competitors: 130 business plans altogether have been handed in with adventure X. The innovative e-Tourism product seekda! connect could according to this also score at the experts’ jury – another evidence for the fact that seekda is headed in the right direction.

Marketing & Sales Director Bernhard Rieder (li.) and CEO Alexander Wahler are rejoicing over the 3rd prize in adventure X. Photo: (c)Tiroler Zukunftsstiftung

New Partner

hogast Affiliates seekda! connect to its Portfolio

hogast members benefit now from attractive terms when buying seekda! connect: The buying association which specializes in gastronomy and hotel industry has convinced itself of the advantages of the booking solution which does not only serve the room sale via hotel homepages but also via indirect distribution channels and affiliated it to its portfolio. We are glad to offer the hogast member establishments seekda! connect directly from now on!

Release 03/2010

Booking, Planning and Selling in a Matter of Minutes – our Novelties for you

With the recent developments from seekda you are perfectly prepared for the summer season: Booking, planning and selling via seekda! connect is from now on even easier than before. For your guests, we have redesigned the seekda! connect dynamic shop booking interface so that they can spot immediately when they can book. For you, we have established a new function by which you can close certain days for arrival and hence plan your guests’ arrivals optimally. Moreover, you can now control the distribution via indirect channels yourself: With our new input mask, you can enable or disable any available channels by just one mouseclick and make fine adjustments. This way, your rooms are completely bookable in a matter of minutes!

ITB 2010

seekda! connect Appears Successfully on ITB

With a lot of new impressions and exciting contacts the seekda team has returned from ITB 2010 in Berlin. The seekda stand in the ITB travel technology area has been a magnet for visitors from all over the world who informed themselves of our products. Our seekda! connect channel manager attracted wide interest, but the Internet booking engine dynamic shop and our portal functionality have been a big hit with the visitors as well. Moreover, we have established contacts with 3rd hand party providers who will help us at extending seekda! connect with additional exciting services - e. g. the voucher sale via Animod.

Before the big run (from left): Birgit Praschberger (Sales & Marketing Assistant), Kristina Hawlitzek (PR Manager) and Bernhard Rieder (Sales & Marketing Director) are looking forward to their visitors.

Release 02/2010

Implementing age ranges - now a child's play with seekda! connect

The seekda team has, among various technical extensions and refined input facilities (e. g. copying function in mandatory fields), developed a great new funcitonality: Now you can easily implement dicounts for children and teenagers! At that, you can decide if you want to adapt fixed standard percentages e. g. for small children (e. g. 0-3 years) or teenagers (e. g. 12-18 years) to all season and room rates or if you want to set up different discounts for different rate plans. This way, you can show familiy-friendlyness without much effort!

ITB 2010

Visit us at ITB 2010!

The seekda team will present the innovations of seekda! connect at ITB 2010 in Berlin.

We are looking forward to meet you at our stand on the world's most successful tourism fair from 10.03. to 14.03. You will find us in hall 6.1, stand 144 (please download the site plan here). We will be delighted to arrange an appointment with you as well. Just get in touch via e-Mail ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or by phone (+43 1 2365084).

Release 01/2010

Our Novelties for you: Derived Rates and New Userroles

With the most recent innovations developed by the seekda team you can now save even more time and avoid errors when implementing complex rate plans. The new function "Derived Rates" allows the quick and comfortable adjustment and modification of base rates to your specific needs. Amounts for additional services like breakfast or full board can be set easily as well as discounts for longer stays. The effortless generation of graded rate models - as common in GDS distribution via travel agencies - is facilitated by that, too.

Beyond that, the seekda team has implemented further improvements to the menu prompt and generated two new userroles for receptionists and Web agencies. With all that, you can apply seekda! connect even more efficiently!

Portal

Soeldenweb Relaunches its Website with seekda! connect dynamic shop

Booking rooms online - this is now possible on soeldenweb.at as well: Via seekda! connect dynamic shop, guests can comfortably search and find their favourite room in the Internet and book it directly and concretely. Thus, the future of e-Tourism has arrived in Soelden.

Portal

seekda! connect Enables Direct Bookings on Arlberg-Web

It's online now: In time for the start of the winter season visitors of St. Anton am Arlberg can book their rooms directly on arlberg-web.com via the seekda! connect Internet Booking Engine seekda! connect dynamic shop. The organization of the winter holidays becomes hence a matter of minutes - a service any guest will appreciate.

New Customer

Booking Portal Soeldenweb Goes for seekda! connect

Ten lodging establishments - among them the four star hotels "Alphof" and "Bergland" as well as cozy holiday apartments - are running the booking platform www.soeldenweb.at. A group, which is according to Internet and marketing expert Karl Zeller, who has been accompanying soeldenweb since the launch in 2005, "open for new trends" in e-Tourism. Thus the members of soeldenweb were fond of the innovations of seekda! connect, which enable not only the direct bookability of accommodation, but also the purchasing of third hand services like skiing lessons. With that, the portal will be relaunched in the upcoming winter season.

New Customer

Arlberg-Web Enters into the Winter Season with seekda! connect

With St. Anton am Arlberg, one of the most exclusive holiday destinations in Austria enters into the future of online booking: The booking platform www.arlberg-web.com has gone for the innovative booking tools of seekda! connect. Thereby hotel rooms and holiday apartments will be directly bookable on the Webportal already in the upcoming winter season - without laborious e-Mail retrievals and associated latencies. The joys of a skiing holiday hence start already with the booking!

Fafga 2009

seekda! connect Attracts Interest on fafga '09

On the trade fair for innovative hospitality (fafga) in Innsbruck, Austria, the seekda team has presented its product to the hotel industry with great success: The seekda stand in the fair hall was busy with prospects, many of whom signed up as pilot customers after professional advice by the company team. A number of them praised the innovative concept of seekda! connect, by which the occupancy rate of accommodation establishments can be increased with little effort thanks to advanced technology, as "simple and therefore ingenious".

At the seekda stand, (from left) DI Klaus Niederacher (Business Development), Elvira Hajdarevic (Customer Care Specialist) and BA Beatrix Biegler (Sales Support) from the seekda trade fair team were ready for any requests.

Fafga 2009

Visit us at FAFGA 2009 in Innsbruck!

seekda! connect will be presented at the FAFGA 2009 from 13.09. to 16.09.

Visit us in hall 2 (upper floor), stand 32 and ask for our exclusive special offers.

Route plan: http://www.come-innsbruck.at/homepage/assets/page-downloads/anfahrtsplan_3.pdf

Media Response

ECONOMY Reports on seekda's Promising Work

"Personalized package holidays are the order of the day": In its 08/21/2009 issue, the weekly Economy writes about seekda's technological innovations, which expand and improve the booking range in e-Tourism essentially. Read more...(PDF-Downlaod)

Pilot Customers

Benefit from seekda! connect for Free – Become a Pilot Customer!

As a pilot customer you can use the services of seekda! connect for free – if the easily manageable multi-channel-solution channel manager for the online distribution or the handy Web application dynamic shop which serves the making of attractive offer packages for your own website. Only third party costs which derive, e. g., from the application of booking portals will be accounted. After the expiration of the pilot period you can decide at liberty if you want to make further use of the seekda! connect services.

Our Services for Pilot Customers:

as of now until end of June 2009: supply to Pegasus network (linking to the most important global IDS; e. g. expedia.de and HRS)
as of now through September 2009: deployment of the channel manager
as of now through September 2009: deployment of the dynamic shop

We are looking forward to your feedback! We will be glad to implement your suggestions for the further improvement of seekda! connect.

Please contact us via our e-Mail Form – we will get in touch immediately and send you the form for the pilot customer’s application!

Competition

seekda is Finalist of "Sprungbrett 2009"

The innovation of seekda! connect has convinced the jury of the international eTourism competition "Sprungbrett 2009": With its application which is focused on the product module dynamic shop, the company has made it immediately to the shortlist and outcompeted 14 competitors. In the final round in Berlin (06/18) seekda will pit against ten other candidates from Austria, Belgium and Germany.

"Sprungbrett 2009" is hosted by the association Verband Internet Reisevertrieb e. V. (VIR). VIR is advocate of the touristic Internet business and contact point for consumers and the media. Its members include leading online travel platforms such as expedia.de, Holidaycheck.de and travel24.com. With "Sprungbrett" VIR supports innovations and founders in the touristic online branch.

The invitation to the final is not only gratifying because of the chance for an award and an attractive prize: The decision of the jury, whose members are prestigious representatives of the travel market, is also acknowledging, that seekda has touched the nerve of the branch. In the final round seekda expects to gather more precious stimulations for the future.