Bookassist scoops world’s top technology provider award

Hotel booking specialist Bookassist has won the World’s Leading Booking Technology Provider award at the 2012 World Travel Awards in New Delhi,India.

Dublin-based Bookassist, an online strategy and technology partner for hotels, received this prestigious prize at the 2012 Grand Finale event, which was hosted at The Oberoi, Gurgaon, New Delhi, India. Often referred to as “the Oscars of the travel industry”, the awards recognise winners worldwide as setting the benchmark to which all others aspire. It is the third year in a row that Bookassist has been nominated in the category.

Speaking at the ceremony in New Delhi, Bookassist founder and CEO Dr Des O’Mahony, said: “We’re extremely honoured to have won. It was third time lucky for us, especially with such distinguished competition in the category such as industry giants like Sabre/SynXis and Amadeus. It’s a stamp of approval from our own industry for what we do.