Noida, April 30, 2025: Rategain Travel Technologies Limited (Reagain), a global provider of AI-powered SaaS solutions and hospitality industry, today announced the launch of Smart Ari, the industry’s first AI-powered ARI (Availability, Rate, Inventory) management engine that helps hotels’ ARIs update in real time and reduces infrastructure costs for required parts.
In a survey conducted by Hedna and Nyu SPS on behalf of more than 11,000 hotel properties (distribution report 2024), 67% of hotels identified a need to reduce cross-channel update rates and inventory efforts, while 72% posed challenges in surveillance parity. As hotel distribution grows more complex and dynamic, the demand for automation, accuracy and speed has never been higher.
Today, however, Ari management remains a bottleneck in many hotel systems. Even the smallest pricing or availability changes can trigger a full ARI refresh, delivering a lot of redundant data to each distribution partner. This not only slows down updates, but also increases system strain and infrastructure costs, resulting in rate mismatch and increases the risk of overbooking. Without smart filtering, hotels spend more time responding to problems rather than optimizing performance.
By leveraging AI, Rategain solutions discard redundant or outdated data in real time and only process the latest and most relevant ARI fields. This ensures that hotels and distribution partners only get actionable, accurate and fresh information – optimize their operations while greatly reducing data load.
For hotels, Smart Ari improves real-time efficiency to interest rates, restrictions and availability updates, making them more responsive to changes in the market while minimizing manual labor. It reduces overbooking, improves rate parity across channels, and reduces infrastructure costs by reducing unnecessary data volumes. Results: Fewer errors, faster execution and better control.
Demand partners benefit from streamlined data feeds, which reduce redundant ARI traffic by 30%. Clean, related updates improve system performance, reduce errors and enhance booking experience. With higher data integrity, hotels are more likely to gain better ranking and visibility on the OTA platform, thus achieving higher conversions.
“Smart Ari represents a fundamental change in how distribution infrastructure works in 2025 and beyond.” Bhanu Chopra, Founder and Chairman of Raggain. “We have adopted a long-term industry pain point and built intelligent, scalable and impactful solutions for every stakeholder, from hoteliers to OTAS.”
Smart Ari will now use Rategain’s connectivity platform to all hotel partners and has demonstrated the benefits of change in the global market. For more information, please visit resgain.com/hotels/smart-ari.
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Rategain Travel Technologies Limited is a global provider of AI-powered SaaS solutions that work with more than 3,200 customers and more than 700 partners in more than 100 countries to help them accelerate revenue through acquisition, retention and wallet share expansion.
Today, Rategain is one of the world’s largest processors of electronic transactions, price points, and travel intent data that helps revenue management, airlines, metasearch companies, packaging providers, car rental companies, travel management companies, cruises and ferries bring better corporate victories to their businesses. Founded today in 2004 and headquartered in India, Rategain today works with 26 of the top 30 hotel chains, 25 of the top 30 online travel agencies, 3 of the top 4 airlines, and all the top car rental companies, including 16 Global Fortune 500 companies that release new revenue every day. For more information, please visit www.rategain.com.
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