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The Petersfield offices have re-located within the same building under our new landlords - Arblaster & Clarke". We have a more spacious office with better views and facilities. June 2004 - Expanding September 2003 - New Look Minotel Web Ths site still retains its multilingual capability and its distributed content management facilities. The XML demonstration system is still available through the site at: XML. 
August 2003 - UK Tour Operator Up and Running A 120 seat call centre and an on-line web site are now taking between 300 and 400 bookings a day. Further details about this installation will be forthcoming in the Travel Trade Press. June 2003 - Minotel offer integration with XML A fully documented version of the XML transactions is available, for qualified partners, on-line through the Minotel web-site.
June 2003 - The New Forest - The New Web-Site
May 2003 - Minotel Open the Web for Travel Agents
January 2002 - BritRail International This innovative solution enables a call centre in Sheffield UK to take bookings from Agents and the Public and allows administrative centres in Hoboken, New Jersey and Montreal, Quebec to process and produce tickets, invoices and documentation for onward dispatch. The servers, based in the UK, support multiple secure sessions across the medium of the Internet. A module to allow IATA agents to make their own bookings is shortly coming on-line.
Tourism Web Awards Winners are revealed 27-Apr-2001 8th International Congress On Communication Technology in Tourism Montreal, Canada – The seven Tourism Web Awards prizewinners were announced during the 8th International Congress on Communication Technology in Tourism (ENTER 2001@Montreal) gala dinner at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel. The Canadian Tourism Commission took advantage of the opportunity to make its own special award as well. This contest is designed to promote excellence in Web creation and development on an international level, and to serve as a reference point for the tourism and new technologies industries. Of the 140 candidates who submitted their work, the international jury selected 32 finalists among whom the prizewinners were chosen. The contest was open to companies and organisations who are active in the tourism industry and who have an interactive or transactional Web site. The Web sites were evaluated by a jury composed of respected members of the Canadian tourism and IT industries, as well as by members of the World Tourism Organization and the World Travel & Tourism Council.
November 2000 - Check In Nova Scotia Book your vacation over the internet - Tourism & Culture November 23,2000 Potential visitors using Nova Scotia's visitor information and reservation system can now book their accommodations over the Internet. They can also get customized information to help them plan a Nova Scotia vacation. The service enhancements are part of a new management contract with CorporaTel to operate Check In, the province's free information and reservation service. Visitor information centres and accommodations will also be able to access the new service online. "Nova Scotia is already recognized as a leader in information and reservation services. With these new enhancements, we're taking our tourism information services to a new level and helping to grow Nova Scotia's tourism industry," said Rodney MacDonald, Minister of Tourism and Culture. Tourism and Culture has been offering visitors information via the Web for some time and are now completing the loop with online reservations and a new, more up-to-date database with Nova Scotia tourist information. Check In employs multilingual reservation agents to help visitors plan and book a great Nova Scotia vacation in one call. The unique reservation system, managed by CorporaTel, provides staff with access to over 700 hotels, motels, inns, B&Bs and campgrounds throughout the province, as well as car rental agencies. For a preview of the new service enhancements visit www.checkinnovascotia.com .
CorporaTel is a leading provider of outsourced multilingual contact centre services throughout North America, serving clients such as Aliant, Citibank, Scotiabank, Primestreet.com and Super Natural BC. It is a member of The CCL Group, and has managed the Check In service for over six years. With the new contract, CorporaTel partnered with MTT, an Aliant company, to bring a multi-channel, fully integrated telecommunications solution for the department. "Travellers want choice in how they make contact so it's crucial to offer them every possible method of access to information on Nova Scotia," says Doug Fawthrop, chair of the Nova Scotia Tourism Partnership Council. "The Internet provides ready access to millions of people all over the world and this new service will help Nova Scotia take advantage of that reach." The council is a private-public sector team that leads provincial marketing and product development initiatives. Tourism revenues for the year 2000 are projected to be $1.25 billion and the number of non-resident visitors is expected to surpass 2.1 million. Revenues translate into jobs for some 35,000 Nova Scotians with an estimated payroll of close to $487 million. Tourism is also a significant export industry, with more than half of the money generated coming from outside the province. See the Check In site or go to The Government of Nova Scotia site.
May 2000 - Minotel spotlight in "Hotel & Gastgewerbe"
The multilingual web-site facilitates real-time reservations at over 700 hotels in Europe for Minotel International and is tightly interfaced with the infoRM® central reservations database. Minotel International is a consortium of small independent hotels with properties in over 32 European countries. In addition to the consumer site Infocentre has also developed a B2B interface to infoRM® with which over 200 world-wide Minotel accredited Tour Operators and Travel agents regularly book these hotels as part of their FIT programmes. infoRM® is used by a variety of DMOs, Hotel Groups and Tour Operators around the world both in its call centre version and it's web version(s). For a demonstration of the features and facilities of infoRM® please go to infoRM.
April 2000 - HelloBC.com - interfaced to infoRM Recently re-vamped, the official Tourism British Columbia web-site HelloBC.com is now live and ready for real-time bookings. This state of the art web-site, offering a wealth of intormation, facts and statistics about British Columbia is tightly interfaced with the infoRM® central reservations database running at Super, Natural British Columbia's call centre in downtown Vancouver. This allows instant, confirmed, bookings at hundreds of properties across BC. infoRM® is used by a variety of DMOs, Hotel Groups and Tour Operators around the world both in its call centre version and it's web version(s). For a demonstration of the features and facilities of infoRM® please go to infoRM.
March 2000 - Minotel Public Site hits the Web First registrant from Ghana and first booking from Taiwan !!!! A multi-lingual "instant reservations" web site for 700 European hotels. Using the same technology created for the successful Tour Operator site, Infocentre can now announce the completion of the development and the subsequent "going live" of a public "Minotel Destination Web" for the Minotel family. Interfacing directly to the same database server already used to run numerous call centres and the Tour Operator site the "public web" offers full real-time confirmed reservations along with the ability to purchase vouchers and gifts. Infocentre specialises in developing software for the tourism industry, following extensive experience providing solutions for destinations around the world. The company is based in Petersfield, Hampshire, with an additional sales and support office in Toronto, Canada.
December 1999 - Tour Operator web "Goes Live" Development now complete, Infocentre has put live on it's in-house database and web servers a sophisticated reservation system for Tour Operators. Commissioned by Minotel International (Lausanne, Switzerland) the site enables around 200 accredited Tour Operators to make bookings on any of the 700 hotels around Europe. The web-site is state-of-the-art technology, one of its main features is the ability for the site to be updated dynamically. Infocentre's Director, Roger Borton has described it as "a unique development for the tourism industry. It allows you to maintain your own tourism web-site from the web browser itself". The web site, which is only accessible via a "closed user group", has taken 120,000 bed night bookings from these Tour Operators from all corners (sic) of the globe operating 24 hours a day 365 days a year. Infocentre specialises in developing software for the tourism industry, following extensive experience providing solutions for destinations around the world. The company is based in Petersfield, Hampshire, with an additional sales and support office in Toronto, Canada.
November 1999 - New Forest spotlight. Leisure Management October 1999 Vol 19 Num 10 Page 4 Internet News
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