Francesco Manna, cruise trading director of lastminute.com group, stated, Lastminute.com group’s partnership with IST will boost the level of automation of our cruise booking system. We will leverage FIBOS cutting edge technology in our cruises brands: crocierissime.it, cruceros.rumbo.es, croisieres.lastminute.com.’
Up until now the group has worked with FDF (FIBOS – DATA- FEED), IST’s solution which permits the automation of the cruise inventory, enabling the availability of sailings, prices and itineraries to be made available online and updated on a daily basis, allowing customers to request quotes for their cruises through one of the groups platforms.
In this new phase the group will extend the process to include the ability to make online bookings, allowing the user to book cruises with Azamara, Celebrity, Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, Norwegian Cruise Line, Pullmantur, Royal Caribbean International, Seabourn and Princess.
Manuel Sardi, ceo and md of IST, said the new deal which will ‘firm up and bring solidity’ to the relationship between IST and the group. Moreover, he stated that the fact that lastminute.com group had opted for an online booking system represented an ‘advance’ in the automation of cruise sales.
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