Hilton International and Pegasus sign deal

Hilton International and Pegasus Solutions, Inc have announced that the 130 Scandic and Hilton hotels in the Nordic region (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) will join Hilton International’s other hotels that are already using Pegasus commission processing services.

Also, Pegasus will process the VAT on commissions payments and create invoices on the agents’ behalf, in a new service that should be more efficient for travel agents and hotels.

The Nordic region within Hilton is the first to provide this new service enhancement to travel agencies.

Bob Boles, chief operating officer, Pegasus, said, “This VAT processing solution provides a valuable service to travel agencies, which should earn our new customer Hilton International-Nordic considerable goodwill throughout the agent community. We were pleased to work with Hilton-Nordic to develop this critical functionality, useful for Europe as well as other VAT-regulated regions. We hope to work with many more hoteliers to implement this new standard solution.”

Pegasus, Scandic and Hilton are conducting pilot tests of the service in four Scandic hotels -- one in each Nordic country. A full launch of the service for all Scandic hotels is planned for March 2006, according an official release.

It added that by working with Pegasus to process its commissions and to use the new VAT invoicing enhancement, Scandic and Hilton improve their relations with travel agents in Europe and beyond who book their properties. Additionally, Pegasus is now offering the VAT-processing service to other hotel chains that use Pegasus' commission processing service.