- Katanox is a Netherlands-based hospitality tech company that enables hotels and short-term rental providers to distribute their inventory directly to travel sellers.
- The company offers a powerful API-based platform, eliminating the need for costly middlemen like OTAs (online travel agencies).
- Founded by Peter Wiesing, Mendel Senf, and Paul Beukers, Katanox empowers hoteliers with direct access to distribution networks, enhancing control over pricing and customer relationships.
As a corporate client, have you ever envisioned a world where hotels and resorts are more than just a resting inn, but providing lasting impressions on you through immersive experiences?
A world where technology seamlessly integrates with hospitality to create a symphony of convenience, service, and utmost comfort, all personalized for the client.
The hospitality industry is propelled forward by efforts to make this vision a reality.
Tapping on to the unlimited power of technology, hotels and resorts are making a precedent, by redefining what a guest experience feels like.
Disconnected Booking Process: Corporate Travel Challenges
Corporate travel can turn into a complex and time-consuming process with multiple stakeholders and systems to be managed.
Be it finalizing the ideal hotel, making payments to confirm bookings, or even modifying existing bookings, the process can often seem inefficient.
Travel management companies like Katanox are trying to streamline the booking processes to improve the overall experience for corporate clients.
The Smart Hotel Approach: Katanox's Booking Platform
Katanox is a hospitality-tech company that offers a booking platform designed to enable a direct partnership between hotel and travel sellers.
Founded by Peter Wiesing, Mendel Senf, and Paul Beukers, the company is revolutionizing how travel management companies serve their clients while redefining future travel for corporate travel.
"Our goal is to open up and accelerate hospitality distribution by enabling direct partnerships through a single platform." Paul Beukers remarks.
Making it seamless for hotels and travel sellers, Katanox is eliminating intermediaries and unlocking new revenue streams.
The company guarantees accurate availability and rate parity while offering easy tools to make sure travel buyers are promoting the sellers' property with the most appealing content available.
While traditionally relying on sources like Booking.com or Expedia helps hotels reach potential guests, there comes a long list of drawbacks that can accompany them, with high commission and limited control over pricing being a few among them.
Katanox has developed an Application Programming Interface (API) technology to make it easier for hotels to manage inventory distribution.
The API connects properties directly with sellers thus making the process faster and transparent with no intermediaries.
This helps hotels to set their prices, improve margins, and even offer customized pricing at times to certain partners. This would subsequently result in strengthening the bond between hoteliers and customers.
Simplifying Distribution
Katanox’s platform is built on powerful API technology, making it easier for hotels to manage inventory distribution across multiple channels:
API-based Inventory Distribution
Katanox’s API allows hotels and short-term rental providers to connect directly with travel sellers, tour operators, and other partners, cutting out costly OTAs.
Partner and Integration Management
The platform simplifies partner management, helping properties expand their reach to more markets without added operational strain.
Data Insights and Analytics
Katanox also offers comprehensive analytics that gives properties valuable insights into their distribution channels.
Industry Impacts and Global Outreach
Katanox has managed to address the $150 billion corporate travel market by streamlining and improving the distribution of travel accommodations.
The travel accommodation distribution and fintech platform has raised a total of $7.1 million in funding over 3 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on May 12, 2022, from a Seed round.
"We’re bringing much-needed change to the market by putting power back in the hands of accommodation providers by empowering them to control their destination via the Katanox platform." Mendel Senf told HospitalityNet.
Katanox brings together travel accommodations so travel sellers like Travel Management Companies (TMC) can assemble an end-to-end experience for their corporate clients.
By giving them data streaming access and availability to directly search, book, pay, and modify their booking at any time, the company is revolutionizing the industry.
Edited By Annette George,
