STAAH, a New Zealand cloud-based platform technology company, that has been helping power the online growth of accommodation providers since 2008 celebrated its 11th year in Sri Lanka at the Colombo Golf Club last week.
Director Partnerships, STAAH, Rajesh Ghanshani said that they were pleased to note the quick rebound of tourism sector in Sri Lanka sooner than expected which is giving a major economic boost to the country. “This has created an increase demand for Sri Lanka as a destination which will open up more new bussieens for the local hotel sector.”
He said that since the introductions of STAAH to Sri Lanka many leading hotels and even small boutique properties have are using our platform as it has helped to increase business for them.”
“We also observer a new trend where the SME sector hotels too is embracing our solutions along with ‘home stay’ providers,” he said.
Commercial Director Global Tarun Joukani said that STAAH Ltd. is helping accommodation providers to maximise their online revenue. “STAAH’s industry-leading technology powers a property’s distribution through online travel agencies (OTA) and direct bookings and works with over 18,000 properties across 90 countries through its operations in New Zealand, Australia, India, Sri Lanka Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, UK and Europe.
“Travel patterns are changing with increase shift towards online bookings moving away from the traditional booking by looking at broachers and consolation with travel consultations.”
Asked to comment on the high airfare he said it should settle as with more flights are taking to the sky to ease the current demand. “Airlines are trying to recover their previous costs and this too has attributed to high airfares.”
