* Provides hoteliers with better control over their available inventory and group rates;

* Gives group travel planners immediate access to real-time group rates and availability;

* Automates the entire group-booking transaction, including reserving group rooms direct in CRS, processing deposits and final payments, and transferring rooming list names;

* Allows hotels to use their existing yield management tools to manage their rates and inventory more effectively;

* Reduces hotelier's labor cost and eliminates the potential for human errors that may occur when using non-connected systems

* Provides hotel IT developers with a host of web services to directly connect to Group Travel Planet's network