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Spring 2009 Release PreviewEmpowering travelers with better decision-making tools
Egencia strives to champion purposeful innovation through the development of superior self-service online tools that: Are easy to use
Meet and exceed the needs of travelers
Create cost-effective and efficient ways to book and manage travel
Help you Get Ahead™
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New Hotel Design & Enhancements
Egencia’s new hotel design and enhancements offer greater ease-of-use, creating an enhanced hotel shopping path that delivers increased efficiency through powerful tools and resources, including Google Maps.
Egencia’s new and innovative hotel shopping path provides an improved user experience that is smart by design
Streamlined search results enable Arrangers and Travelers to quickly scan hotel search results and choose the hotel rate that meets both traveler and company needs
Interactive mapping technology, search results, and policy indicators include color-coded map pins to encourage policy-compliant behavior
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Enhancements to Help Arrangers & Travelers Easy-to-use search form helps Travelers and Arrangers
quickly search for hotels worldwide by city, airport or partial address or select one of their company’s custom destinations
Increased efficiency through powerful tools and resources, including Google Maps.
Streamlined results enables Travelers and Arrangers to quickly scan the page and find the hotel they are looking for
Interactive Google map pinpoints the search address or landmark, which speeds up the process of finding the right hotel in the right location
Color-coded hotel map pins make a company’s preferred hotels easier to identify
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Enhancements Help Arrangers & Travelers Travelers and Arrangers can drag the map to dynamically update
hotels displayed on the map and in search results
Rules and restrictions have been exposed and the language updated to reduce confusion about ESR (Expedia Special Rates) and EPR (Egencia Preferred Rates) rates
Hotel prompt reminds busy Travelers and Arrangers when a trip does not include a hotel, helping them complete travel plans while staying within company policy
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Standardized Hotel Search Wizard
The Hotel Search Wizard looks the same on the Egencia homepage, hotels tab and Change search pop-up.
Hotels tab
Change search pop-up
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City / Airport or Address Radio Buttons
City / Airport or Address Radio Buttons
The wizard always displays the two search type radio buttons: City, Airport or Address
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City / Airport or Address Search Field
Find hotels near a city or neighborhood Search Field
We now have improved visibility of address searches! Users can use the same field to input:• City• Airport• US Address or International Address• Partial address • Intersections• Zip code, and• Broad points of interest
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New! Custom Destinations Drop-down Menu Custom Destinations Drop-down Menu
For companies where one or more custom hotel destinations are defined, the custom, Company destinations drop down menu will display.
• The menu contains an item for every custom destination defined for the current company, sorted alphabetically by custom destination display name, up to 35 custom destinations.
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Additional OptionsAdditional Options
The Check-in and Check-out date controls have a new location, but their user interface and functionality are the same.
The Guests drop-down menu is not shown when more than one traveler is being arranged (Group shopping does not support more than one traveler per room)
When the form is initially loaded, the Hotel name, hotel class link is displayed. • When clicked the Hotel name and Hotel class controls are displayed. • Interface and functionality are unchanged.
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Improved! Hotel Search
Egencia’s Hotel Search has some great improvements:
• Reduced search issues for small towns through improved search error handling
•Select from a list of cities or retry their search by providing additional address information
• The hotel search guides the user to enhanced address based search.
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Improved! Sorting Default: City vs. Vicinity
Enhanced hotel sorting for address based searches respects both company negotiated and preferred hotel relationships and distance sort criteria, by defaulting to city vs. vicinity view.
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Hotel Search Result Page
•The “#“ hotels near is the number of hotel results returned from the current search
• The “Area” filter is displayed for city, and airport and custom Hotel Destination searches
The Sort by drop down menu lets the traveler sort the hotel results by the item most important to them.
The filter by amenities interface is updated, but the filtering behavior remains unchanged, The site will perform a new search based on the new selections, and will display those hotels that match all of your search filter criteria.
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Search Results Interactive Map Features
The Standard Google controls allow Travelers and Arrangers to zoom, drag,
or switch from map to hybrid or terrain view.
Map pin indicators provide a visual location of the current hotels included on the search results page.
The color of the pins on the map provide additional visibility into the hotel rate type:
Green – Company preferred or negotiated rateGold – Egencia preferred rateBlue – Expedia special rateGrey - GDS only rate
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Search Results Interactive Map Features
The Interactive Google map pinpoints the search address or landmark with a green arrow, helping speed the process of finding the right hotel in the right location
• The green arrow appears for address, landmark and custom destinations searches
• Hovering over the green arrow marker will display the search address, landmark or custom destination name
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Search Results Interactive Map Features
When the traveler drags or zooms the map, the “Update hotels on map” button appears.
Clicking on the button kicks off a geo-centered search.
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Interactive Map Pane Features
•The property information pop-up appears when the pin is clicked
•The pop-up allows the Traveler or Arranger to easily preview hotel information based on the map location
•Clicking on the “View rates” button dynamically brings the selected hotel to the top of the search results pane and automatically opens the rate display to display hotel rates
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Interactive Map Pane Features
Travelers and Arrangers can drag the map to dynamically update hotels displayed on the map and in search results
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Search Results – List Pane FeaturesThe Scroll bar allows for ease of use when viewing hotel search results without displacing the map
Clicking on Views Rates or Hide Rates expands or contracts the rate display.
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Hotel Rate Display Features
The Search results will display up to 5 rates for each rate type – Egencia Preferred Rates, Expedia Special Rates, & Published Rates
Egencia Preferred Rates include the bird icon
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Hotel Rate Display Features
The negotiated rate includes the Company name (Hotel Demo) and the handshake icon.
The hotel Photos, Features & Amenities, Location links have not changed.
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Hotel Rate Display FeaturesThe special rate info pop-up appears when the cursor hovers over the “Flexible” rate type description or clicks on “more info”
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Hotel Rate Display Features
The “No payment required” and “No cancellation fees” have been added for awareness of rate flexibility.
Amenities are pointed out, including loyalty points, free breakfast, etc.
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Hotel Policy & Discounted Rates
When a discounted rate is available, the original average rate per night will be shown with strike out pricing.
The site now displays negotiated, published and Egencia Preferred Rates (EPRs) and Expedia Special Rates (ESRs) on the search results page rather than the hotel information site Rooms & Rates page.
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Hotel Policy & Rules
Rate transparency – Rooms & Rates page
Terms are clearly visible, and no longer accessed through a link
The language has been updated to improve clarity and comprehension of the rules and restrictions
For example: Cancellations and changes must be made before 11:00PM local hotel time versus the old message of 12:00AM
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Hotel Information
The Hotel Information section pops up over the search results enabling quick access to additional hotel information without losing track of where they were in the hotel shopping process,
Everything else has stayed the same in the section.
When a discounted rate is available, the original average rate per night will be shown with strike out pricing.
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Hotel Cross SellA hotel booking reminder page has been added to the post booking confirmation flow, pre-trip email and confirmation email when a traveler’s itinerary does not contain a hotel.
If the traveler’s destination is not known a generic module appears without specific hotel recommendations. Instead, it provides a Find a Hotel button to search for hotels.
The hotel recommendations included in the module are within company policy and based on the traveler’s destination.
For example: “Need a hotel in San Francisco” displays 3 in policy hotels
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Thank you for reviewing Egencia’s New Hotel Design & Enhancements
We’re excited to bring you great new hotel tools that include: A new and innovative hotel shopping path that’s easy to use and smart by design Streamlined search results Interactive mapping technology Policy indicators including color-coded map pins