Places To Stay online

Trade hotel supplier Places To Stay is to move online as part of an overhaul of its content by new owners FEXCO AllTravel. The Irish firm bought the company from CNG Travel Group in October. It plans to increase content and update hotel descriptions.

Oiling the engine

Mach Associations has launched a tool to turn online brochures into live booking engines. Webbookit is linked to the firm's reservations system MARS.

Frost in Studio

Technology supplier Open Destinations has appointed Howard Frost as sales and marketing director. The former Anite sales and marketing director will drive expansion of its back office system Travel Studio and scheduled fares system Fare Studio.

Hall joins Cendant

Cendant Travel Distribution Services has appointed Matthew Hall as vice-president airline development for Europe, Middle East and Africa. He joins from American Airlines, where he was MD for sales marketing reservations and customer service.