Booking Engine Central Reservation System

Simple Booking (QNT S.r.l. — Zucchetti Group)

Simple Booking is the flagship hotel booking engine / central reservation system of QNT S.r.l., a Florence-based hospitality software firm founded in 2001 and acquired by Italy's Zucchetti Group in January 2018 (Zucchetti's fourth hotel-tech acquisition in ~14 months, alongside Vertical Booking, GP Dati and Nice Informatica). The suite spans the direct-booking engine, channel manager, metasearch distribution, a Rate Match parity tool and business analytics, and is aimed at boutique, luxury and multi-property groups — strong in Italy and the Alpine/DACH market. Beyond core distribution it ships a Loyalty Club module for running online loyalty programmes with instant rewarding, a Mini Shop for selling vouchers and gift cards, and Converto CRM for quotations. It reports 7,000+ properties in 75+ countries and in June 2026 released MCP connectors letting AI agents such as Claude and ChatGPT query rates and book directly.

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Listed properties: 2
Rooms covered: 406
Countries: 1
Founded: 2001

About Simple Booking (QNT S.r.l. — Zucchetti Group)

Simple Booking by QNT is an Italian-founded booking engine focused on direct-conversion optimization. Strong installed base across European boutique hotels and small chains.

Key capabilities

Conversion-optimized UI
Multi-language
Upsell modules
Mobile-first

What Simple Booking (QNT S.r.l. — Zucchetti Group) does

One section per category this provider serves. Each links to the category it competes in and lists the properties running it in that specific role.

Marketing, CRM & Direct Booking

Booking Engine

Direct-channel commerce. The internet booking engine lives on the hotel's website and converts lookers into bookers without paying OTA commission. The single highest-value system to fingerprint.

Running it here: Manz Privacy Hotels Switzerland Matterhorn Group (Zermatt)

Revenue, Distribution & Commerce

Central Reservation System

Group-level reservation and distribution control. Where a multi-property group centralises inventory that individual PMSs hold locally.

No listed property records Simple Booking (QNT S.r.l. — Zucchetti Group) in this role yet.

Who it is for

Segment: Independent hotelHotel groupLuxury & boutiqueResort & wellness
Department: Revenue managementSales & marketingIT & technology
Persona: Revenue managerMarketing managerIT manager
Use case: Increase direct bookingsReduce OTA commissionRaise ADR & RevPARIntegrate systems

Hotels running Simple Booking (QNT S.r.l. — Zucchetti Group)

Hotel	Location	Role there	Rooms
Manz Privacy Hotels Switzerland	Zurich, Switzerland	IBE	406
Matterhorn Group (Zermatt)	Zermatt, Switzerland	IBE	—

At a glance

Category: Booking Engine
Headquarters: Florence, Italy (Via Lucca 52)
Founded: 2001
Employees: 20-49 (QNT S.r.l., Italian company filings, 2024)
Pricing model: Per-transaction

Target segments

boutiqueindependent

Alternatives

Vendors serving the same categories as Simple Booking (QNT S.r.l. — Zucchetti Group).

Sabre Hospitality / Aven Hospitality (SynXis)
SynXis is one of the two or three dominant global hotel central reservation systems, holding rates, inventory and availability and pushing them to the brand website, OTAs, GDS and voice channels; it is bundled with a booking engine, a PMS (Property Hub), a retailing module (Retail Studio) and a unified guest profile (Guest Experience). The business began as SynXis Corporation in 1996, was bought by Sabre in 2005 for $41M, and was sold by Sabre to private-equity firm TPG for $1.1B in a deal that closed on 3 July 2025. On 27 January 2026 it rebranded from Sabre Hospitality Solutions to Aven Hospitality under CEO Teresa Mackintosh — sabrehospitality.com now 301-redirects to avenhospitality.com, so the customer-facing name is changing. It reports 35,000+ hotels in 175 countries and 600+ integrations, and in July 2023 it acquired UK-based Techsembly specifically for hotel gift-card and property e-commerce capability aimed at the luxury segment.
Amadeus Hospitality (TravelClick / iHotelier)
Amadeus Hospitality's hotel platform, including the iHotelier central reservation system and booking engine acquired with TravelClick. Provides CRS, booking engine, media/metasearch distribution and business intelligence to independent hotels and groups worldwide.
BookingSuite (discontinued)
Booking.com's former suite of hotel-facing tools — websites, booking engine, rate intelligence — assembled from acquisitions and discontinued in November 2020 when Booking Holdings refocused on its core OTA business, leaving dependent hoteliers to migrate at short notice.
GlobRes (Globres Global Reservation Agent AG)
GlobRes is a Swiss hotel e-distribution and online-marketing company founded in Lucerne in 2003, trading as Globres Global Reservation Agent AG. It runs central reservation, booking-engine, channel-management and GDS/IDS connectivity for independent and small-group hotels, largely as a managed reseller/partner of the Sabre SynXis Central Reservation System, which pushes rates and inventory to Sabre, Amadeus, Galileo/Worldspan (Travelport) and the Pegasus IDS — the company cites reach to over 650,000 travel agents. Alongside the technology it sells demand-side services: corporate RFP and consortia placement (its Nexus database claims to answer a corporate/consortia bid in five minutes, supporting 30 consortia formats), an exclusive commission-based booking channel called X-Direct, analytics and hotel website design. It is a privately held Swiss AG with no disclosed funding.
HotelNetSolutions (OnePageBooking)
Berlin-based developer and host of OnePageBooking, a long-established direct-booking engine for independent hotels and groups, focused on single-page flows, transparent pricing and cancellation reduction. Also distributed as an app in the Apaleo Store.
SiteMinder
The largest hotel channel manager and distribution platform globally, with deep Booking.com and Expedia partnerships, a booking engine (Properties Plus) and growing revenue-management/AI features.

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