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GuestCentric Embraces WordPress Community of More Than 200 Million Blogs and Websites With An Innovative Online Booking Plug-in

WordPress plug-in enforces GuestCentric’s hotel booking engine as the most portable in the industry

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The premier Software-as-a-Service provider for the independent hotel industry, GuestCentric Systems (http://www.guestcentric.com), today announced the availability of a plug-in that allows websites and blogs built on WordPress to easily include GuestCentric’s innovative hotel booking engine.

The new plug-in opens the door to WordPress designers to create websites with state of the art technologies for the hotel industry. For the first time designers can easily offer fully integrated e-commerce facilities on websites and/or blogs, by installing GuestCentric’s portable booking engine to promote online bookings. The new plug-in is available at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/guestcentric-booking-gadget/

“The idea was to create a WordPress plug-in that simplified the insertion of GuestCentric’s booking engine by using an easy-to-use widget interface,” said Pedro Araujo author of the booking engine WordPress plug-in. “the installation of the plug-in is extremely easy. All you need to do is to insert an API Key that is provided by GuestCentric platform, select the type of widget and in less than a minute a property can have direct online bookings from a WordPress webpage.”

GuestCentric provides the fastest hotel booking engine in the industry based on the latest Ajax technology. The booking engine provides guests a unique secure shopping experience with a Rates+Availability map that allows increasing conversion rates, maximizing revenue-per-stay and generating satisfied guests. The shopping experience is uniquely interactive, allowing key features like deal shopping or one-click checkout for returning guests.

“The WordPress web design and development community has created over 200 million websites and blogs. The new plug-in developed for WordPress is a response to WordPress web designers need to include top-notch e-commerce solutions on hotel sites and blogs.” said Filipe Machaz, GuestCentric’s Vice-President of Product Management “With this new application, WordPress designers finally have the opportunity to easily offer great hotel websites and enhance their market share in the hotel industry. By embracing this leading-edge community GuestCentric will continue its path to level the playing field for independent hotel owners and operators.” WordPress platform is preferred more and more by hoteliers around the world, because it simplifies the integration of blogs with CMS; this provides managers different and better ways to promote hotels online.

About GuestCentric

GuestCentric Systems develops and markets web services that revolutionize the way independent hotels work. GuestCentric has built a Software as a Service platform that allows independent hotels to develop long-standing relationships with guests, improve online revenues and lower expenses associated with online distribution. Also it provides hoteliers with a professional hotel website design. Through use of Web 2.0 technologies, GuestCentric provides easy-to-use tools at reasonable prices that up until now were only available for hotels with big budgets.

For media inquiries, please contact:

Karla Martinez
GuestCentric Systems
+1 (203) 989 0173
karla.martinez@guestcentric.com

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