Rome’s Hotel Dei Mellini has upgraded its website with design services and a booking engine from Open Hospitality. The cosmopolitan 80-room property has also tapped the division of Pegasus Solutions for search engine optimisation (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM) and social media management.

Pegasus Solutions has appointed Craig Cartwright vice president, central reservation systems (CRS) product management. Cartwright will assume responsibility for the CRS product team, focusing on strategic planning and market-positioning of Pegasus’ next-generation CRS, RezView NG.

Pegasus Solutions is offering responsive web design for hotels, which allows hotels to deliver hotel content correctly formatted to any mobile device. The solution, OpenFlex, is available now through Pegasus’ Open Hospitality division, and is credited for helping one customer realise half a million US dollars through iPad bookings alone in January 2012. The product is being promoted today at ITB Berlin.

St Giles Hotels of London has engaged Pegasus Solutions’ Open Hospitality® service as its exclusive provider of internet reservation services for both the St Giles Hotel in Central London and St Giles Hotel Heathrow. Open Hospitality also designed the websites for St Giles New York – The Tuscany and St Giles New York – The Court.

St Giles Hotels of London has engaged Pegasus Solutions’ Open Hospitality service as its exclusive provider of internet reservation services for both the St Giles Hotelin Central London and St Giles Hotel Heathrow. Open Hospitality also designedthe websites for St Giles New York – The Tuscany and St Giles New York– The Court.

Global business travel hotel bookings grew by 10.2 per cent over prior year in August, up from July’s 5.8 per cent increase, as reported by Pegasus Solutions. Bookings for both the business and leisure markets showed continued resiliency despite the US and European economic debt and credit crises that overshadowed the month.