MTS Travel Hotel Booking Service

2023: Hotels added in 150 non-CIS countries

The reservation service, MTS Travel which is part of the digital ecosystem, MTS on July 28, 2023 announced the appearance on its showcase of a large assortment of hotels and other accommodation facilities countries in non-CIS countries. At the first stage, offers appeared in the service in the following directions:,,, Egypt Thailand China countries Europe and others.

Now on MTS Travel you can book hotels and other accommodation options in more than 60 countries of the world, by the end of summer the assortment will expand to at least 150 countries.

The emergence of a large assortment of hotels in the far abroad coincided with the growth of the outbound tourist flow. According to to data Big Data MTS, the number of tourist trips of Russians to non-CIS countries in the first half of 2023 grew by 65% in annual comparison. The main destinations here are,, Turkey UAE Thailand, Egypt,,,, and. Italy Germany France In Maldives addition, the largest increase in tourist flow is observed in, such states Asia as,,. In these and Indonesia India Vietnam other countries, more than one hundred thousand hotels are already available on the MTS Travel service, the base is constantly growing.

You can pay for foreign reservations on MTS Travel with a card of any Russian bank.

2022

Launch of hotel booking service in Russia

MTS Travel, a member of the MTS group, launched a service for booking hotels throughout Russia in mid-November 2022. Travelers can choose a hotel from 14 thousand offers. By the end of 2022, the service plans to add hotels in the CIS countries, and later - in far abroad.

Access to the hotel database is provided using the Bronevik service, acquired by MTS Travel in July 2022. It will allow you to combine the B2C showcase and the B2B direction on the platform. MTS Travel plans to develop products to increase the tourism potential of Russian regions using the capabilities of Big Data and the GeoEffect platform, the MTS Marketer service and others.

MTS launched a hotel booking service in Russia

It is assumed that the site will unite several technological products of MTS and partners and will become an ecosystem for travelers: it will be possible to buy tickets for transport and events, organize excursions, guides, rent cars, purchase financial products.

{{quote 'We have opened the opportunity to book Russian hotels at MTS Travel. This will strengthen and complement the ecosystem of MTS services, an important element of which is impressions and entertainment. In the future, we will offer the client not just hotel booking services, but a whole ecosystem for travelers, which will include a variety of services - from buying transport tickets to organizing excursions and entertainment, - MTS Travel CEO Vadim Melnikov told RIA Novosti. }} According to him, MTS Travel has access to technologies for storing and protecting user data, expertise in the field of advertising, customer service, and creating applications.

{{quote 'We will bring these standards and processes to the Russian travel market, developing the TravelTech direction. In addition, we will develop products to increase the tourist potential of Russian regions, - he concluded^[1] }}

Free hotel booking module

MTS PJSC announced on October 6, 2022 that it would help to make regional travel portals more convenient for travelers. Now you can add a free hotel booking module developed by MTS Travel to local tourist sites. At the same time, the regions will receive a commission from housing booked and paid for on the portal.

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MTS Travel cooperates with local tourist centers according to the white label model: partners can connect a hotel booking module with a payment widget for free by integrating it into the travel portal and creating a separate site in a regional style. The reservation service and client service 24x7 will be provided by the MTS Travel division - the Bronevik company. For each paid room, the region will be able to receive a commission from 6% of the booking price and direct this money to the development of tourism.

With the module from MTS Travel, visitors to regional tourist resources will be able to choose a city, arrival dates, number of guests and get a list of all available offers for booking - hotels, mini-hotels, guest houses, hostels, apartments, campsites, etc. You can pay for your reservation with a bank card.

In September 2022, the booking module was installed on the travel portal Yaroslavl region - Yaroslavia. Visitors can, without leaving the portal, book a hotel room in the Yaroslavskaya region, including in the cities, Yaroslavl Danilov, Lyubov, Myshkin,, Pereslavl-Zalessky Poshekhonye, Rostov Veliky,, Rybinsk Tutaev, Uglich, etc.

Thanks to cooperation with MTS, the regions will be able to quickly increase the convenience of their travel portals, earn on commissions from bookings and support the local hotel business. For MTS, this is another channel for selling travel services and a step towards scaling the service. In the context of a change in the housing reservation market, such cooperation is convenient for both travelers and regional authorities and businesses. MTS Travel has a large inventory fund in the country - there are already more than 50 thousand accommodation facilities throughout Russia in the base of the Bronevik subsidiary. Thanks to direct contracts with partners, the company gives the regions not just content and technology, but a full cycle of client service related to living during the trip, commented on the general director of MTS Travel, Vadim Melnikov.

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