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Leonardo Selected by Wotif Group to Provide Enhanced Hotel Visual Content

Travel Company Wotif Group has Appointed Leonardo to Source Visual Content to Support Properties with Distribution through its Portfolio of Iconic Online Travel Brands in Asia Pacific, including Wotif.com


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Leonardo, technology and online media company for the global hospitality industry, today announced a new agreement with Wotif Group (Wotif.com Holdings Limited), which operates leading travel brands in the Asia Pacific region, including Wotif.com, Australia’s leading travel website selling hotels in more than 69 countries along with flights and packages.

In addition to Wotif.com, Leonardo will provide visual content for travel websites under the Wotif Group including lastminute.com.au, AsiaWebDirect.com, and travel.com.au, providing a more immersive visual experience for travel shoppers researching hotels.

Seamless image sourcing and processing
Under the agreement, Wotif Group will gain access to over 1.5 million photos from the global travel industry’s largest hotel media library for over 100,000 GDS listed hotels globally. Wotif Group will also benefit from the image sourcing and processing features included in the MediaConnect product, such as:

  • Delivery of media in multiple formats and sizes along with meta-data including categories and captions;
  • Brand and hotel certified content that is updated regularly to ensure accuracy and freshness of content on Wotif Group’s websites and minimize rogue image issues;
  • Media sourcing through advanced XML connectivity based on industry standards from HTNG (Hotel Technology Next Generation) and Open Travel Alliance.


Global travel network
Wotif Group is now a direct channel member in Leonardo’s VNetwork, the most extensive travel website network in the global travel industry comprised of more than 120 direct connect travel websites and tens of thousands of forward distribution channels. With Wotif Group in the VNetwork, hotels have the opportunity to reach and engage more leisure travelers using this leading travel channel.

“By relying on Leonardo technology for their visual content, Wotif Group will provide their millions of monthly website visitors with visually engaging hotel images that are designed to give more insights into property rooms and facilities, and, as a result, help improve the on-site shopping experience. We’re pleased to have Wotif Group’s leading online travel brands in the Asia Pacific region in our global travel network, including the leading online travel website in Australia, Wotif.com, ensuring that hotels are visually represented on this important travel channel,” says John McAuliffe, Leonardo’s President.

“Embedding Leonardo’s extensive library of images to support our existing property images, information and deals brings many of the properties on our site a new opportunity to showcase their rooms and features, which, in turn, allows travellers on our sites to make the hotel selections that best suit their specific needs,” said Donna Rodios, Group Product Director, ANZ, Wotif Group.

About Wotif Group
Wotif Group operates leading online travel brands in the Asia Pacific region: Wotif.com, lastminute.com.au, travel.com.au, Asia Web Direct, LateStays.com, GoDo.com.au and Arnold Travel Technology, and a network of other travel content and destination websites, such as Phuket.com and Bangkok.com.

Wotif.com launched in 2000, and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in June 2006 as Wotif.com Holdings Limited, trading under the ASX code “WTF”.

The Company has offices in Australia, including its head office in Brisbane, with additional offices in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, the United Kingdom and Vietnam.

About Leonardo
Leonardo Worldwide Corporation is the travel industry’s trusted provider of technology solutions that help hotel chains, hotel properties and travel websites manage, syndicate and display visual content. Leonardo has been the leader in hotel media management and distribution for more than a decade with the largest multi-channel marketing network in the industry. Adoption of the company’s new and improved cloud-hosted media display solution continues to grow among top hotel chains and travel websites. Leonardo continues to grow its offering of hotel digital marketing tools that enable individual properties to enhance their visual presentations on their websites, social media and mobile devices. Learn more about Leonardo at www.leonardo.com.



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