TA Network is a leading cloud based technology solutions provider in the travel and hospitality sector.
United Points (UP) announced the expansion of its collaboration with Trip Affiliates Network to offer online hotel booking services on its loyalty platforms. Through this partnership the UP Hotel Booking Platform, powered by TA Network, will offer over a million accommodation properties globally for direct booking using UP Points.
Since 2014, UP has provided businesses with a plug and play turnkey loyalty commerce solution that empower them to retain and engage customers and employees. Its solution is now used by more than one million customers in Singapore and Malaysia. Loyalty and HR managers also leverage on UP‘s ready merchant content across more than 500 merchant and airline brands to help their business create an instant rewards catalogue.
TA Network is a leading cloud based technology solutions provider in the travel and hospitality sector. Its high performance distribution, turnkey solutions and connectivity services bring together Asia Pacific leading travel wholesalers, operators and destination management companies onto a single open travel ecosystem
Through this partnership, UP will be able to contract and book directly with TA Network hotel affiliates as well as gain easy access to competitive global travel content from TA Network partners. UP’s business clients will have access to additional tools to increase sales by rewarding loyal customers with discounts or other incentives while streamlining processes for customer retention
UP COO Vincent Li -, “Participating companies can provide more personalised consumer experiences, evolve their loyalty programs to stay current with customer expectations and help drive business value by creating loyal, lifelong customers. Loyalty commerce technology allows companies to evolve their loyalty programs from a transactional to a human-centric approach capable of creating personalised, relationship- building moments with each customer.”
UP curates programmes that help businesses engage and develop cultures with their customer and or employee. Merchants maximise their marketing dollars with opportunities to supply via multiple programmes through the same channels (rewards, recognition, group-buy and savings). Working directly within travel B2B digital ecosystem, UP’s powerful loyalty software will enrich UP’s network through cross channel management, market basket analysis and data analytics.
TA Network Managing Partner Josef Foo added, “Our collaboration with UP is another strategic initiative to provide TA Network affiliate hotels & partners with alternative online distribution channels to launch discrete promotions without impacting online pricing. UP’s private online community of business customers & employees will benefit from easy conversion of their UP reward and loyalty points to book their favourite hotels and activities at competitive or preferential pricing.”
He added “Customers are looking for a blended advanced loyalty management product that represents the next-generation of loyalty & gives companies the freedom to create, evolve and measure a loyalty program that is capable of providing personalized and engaging offerings.”
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