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Central Reservation System:
Your Single Source for Growth

Unify your operations and unlock new revenue streams with a Central Reservation System (CRS) that connects your entire world. Our CRS acts as the heart of your business, synchronizing rates, availability, and bookings in real-time across all your properties and sales channels. It’s designed to simplify complex operations, foster collaboration, and give you more time to create unforgettable guest experiences.

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Feature overview

Real-Time Synchronization

Instantly sync rates, availability, and bookings across all connected partners and sales channels to eliminate errors and maximize occupancy .

Dynamic Packaging

Combine accommodation with activities, transport, and other services to create unique, bookable packages that increase guest spending and extend stays .

Automated Financial Settlement

Simplify partner collaboration with automated revenue sharing, commission calculations, and payouts, significantly reducing administrative workload.

Integrated Gift Card System

Boost revenue and loyalty with a fully integrated gift card solution. Sell and redeem gift cards that can be used across your entire hotel group or destination.

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Unlock True Collaboration with Dynamic Packaging

Move beyond selling single rooms and start offering complete experiences. Our dynamic packaging feature allows you to bundle products from multiple suppliers—like hotels, activity providers, and transport—into one seamless booking . This not only creates more value for your guests but also opens up powerful new revenue opportunities and strengthens local partnerships. Set custom rates, manage shared inventory in real-time, and let our system handle the complex settlements, so you can focus on creating attractive offers .

Key points:

  • Combine multiple services into a single, attractive package.
  • Increase revenue per booking and encourage longer stays.
  • Automate inventory and financial settlement between partners.

FAQ

Something unclear? You’ll find answers to some of the most common questions here. And if you’d rather talk it through, we’re always here to help.

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What is a central reservation system (CRS)?

A central reservation system, or CRS, holds one master set of inventory, rates and reservations and distributes it to every sales channel at once – your own website, OTAs, travel agents and tour operators – so the same availability is shown everywhere and nothing drifts out of sync. It sits above individual properties rather than inside one, which is what makes it the system hotel groups and destinations run on rather than a single hotel.

What is the difference between a CRS, a PMS and a channel manager?

Three different scopes. A property management system (PMS) runs one property's daily operations. A channel manager keeps that property's rates and availability synchronised across OTAs. A central reservation system (CRS) sits above both, holding one master inventory across many properties or suppliers and distributing it to every channel including OTAs, travel agents and tour operators. A single hotel needs a PMS and a channel manager. A group or a destination needs a CRS as well.

Do I need a CRS if my PMS already has a channel manager?

For a single property, usually not – a PMS with a channel manager covers you. A CRS earns its place once you are selling inventory that does not all live in one PMS: several properties under one brand, or a destination selling hotels, activities and transport from many independent suppliers. The test is simple. If your availability lives in one system today, you do not need a CRS. If it lives in five, that is the problem a CRS solves.

Can the CRS connect to our existing property management system?

Yes – including Mews, Hotsoft, Opera Cloud, Protel and VisBook, with two-way flow so reservations and availability stay consistent in both systems. That matters more for a CRS than for most software, because a group rarely runs one PMS across every property: an acquired hotel usually arrives with its own. A CRS that only talks to one PMS forces a migration you did not budget for.

How does a central reservation system help a hotel group or chain?

By resolving the tension every group runs into: head office needs one view of availability and performance, while each property needs to price and present itself for its own market. A CRS gives both – chain-wide inventory and reporting centrally, local rate and branding control at each property. Central gift cards and loyalty programmes then work across all of them, which is only possible when the reservation layer is shared.

What are the advantages of a central reservation system?

One source of availability instead of several, which removes the reconciliation work and the overbooking risk that come with keeping multiple systems aligned by hand. One place to set rates and distribute them, so a change reaches every channel at once. Reporting across the whole portfolio rather than per property. And access to channels a single property cannot reach alone, including travel agent and tour operator networks.

What is the best central reservation system for a small hotel group?

For a small group the deciding factors are how many different property management systems it has to talk to, and whether it reaches the channels your market actually books through. Feature depth matters less than fit: a CRS that cannot connect to the PMS at your newest property will cost you a migration. VISIT's CRS connects to Mews, Hotsoft, Opera Cloud, Protel and VisBook, and reaches OTAs plus a 15,000-agent B2B network.