Your property might sell rooms through a few big online travel agencies, a regional partner or two, a wholesaler, and metasearch sites. Before you set up Mews Channel Manager, you want to know which of your existing channels you can connect. This article groups the supported channels by category, and shows which are available on Mews Channel Manager Core and which need Mews Channel Manager Pro.

Mews Channel Manager is powered by SiteMinder and supports channels in the SiteConnect catalogue, alongside your Mews direct booking engine. Core includes your direct booking engine and three default online travel agencies. Pro adds the ability to connect any other channel in the catalogue.

 

In this article, you can learn about:

• Channels supported by Mews Channel Manager
  • Direct booking
  • Global online travel agencies
  • Regional online travel agencies
  • Wholesalers
  • What to do next

 

Channels supported by Mews Channel Manager

Direct booking

Your Mews direct booking engine is treated as a channel on the Channels screen, alongside your online travel agencies. You configure and monitor it in the same place, so your direct bookings sit alongside your indirect ones and use the same rates and availability logic.

Available on: Core and Pro.

 

Global online travel agencies

Global online travel agencies sell your rooms in most markets. Mews Channel Manager Core includes three of the largest:

• Booking.com
• Expedia
• Airbnb Hotels

Available on: Core and Pro.

 

Regional online travel agencies

Regional online travel agencies focus on specific markets or traveller types. Examples include:

• Trip.com: Group ranks #3 globally by market cap among OTAs, dominant in Asia-Pacific and growing in Europe

• HotelTonight: Airbnb-owned, relevant for last-minute US/Europe

• Hopper: Fast-growing OTA, strong in North America

• Luxury Escapes: High-value leisure, strong APAC

• LoveHolidays: UK

• Rakuten Travel Xchange: Japan/Asia

• Lastminute.com : Europe

• eDreams / ODIGEO Connect: Southern Europe (Spain, Italy, France)

• Travelzoo: Deal-driven, US/Europe

• Secret Escapes: Premium leisure, UK/Europe

• VeryChic: France/Southern Europe

• Weekendesk: France/Benelux short breaks

Available on: Pro. Regional online travel agencies are added from the SiteMinder SiteConnect catalogue.

 

Wholesalers

Wholesalers sell your rooms in bulk to other travel providers, including bedbanks and tour operators. 

 

Available on: Pro. Wholesalers are added from the SiteMinder SiteConnect catalogue.

What to do next

Once you know which channels you want to connect:

1. If they are covered by Mews Channel Manager Core (your direct booking engine, Booking.com, Expedia, or Airbnb Hotels), see How to set up an OTA channel in Mews Channel Manager? and How to set up the Mews direct booking engine as a channel?

2. If they need Mews Channel Manager Pro, see Comparing Mews Channel Manager Core and Pro for how to upgrade, then How to add a new channel in Mews Channel Manager Pro?

Once your channels are connected, your rates and availability sync across every one of them from a single screen in Mews.