Amadeus has significantly boosted its hotel porfolio via a deal with corporate accommodation specialist HRS.
The deal will see 250,000 hotels from HRS made available via Amadeus e-Travel Management corporate booking tool as well as the Amadeus Selling Platform for travel agencies.
The partnership, which Amadeus is describing as a 'landmark agreement', will provide access to the additional hotel content to agencies and corporate bookers by the second quarter of this year.
The deal includes 50,000 independent hotels, a segment which GDSs have traditionally struggled to offer forcing the business travel community to shop around online.
The independent properties are said to be currently distributed exclusively through HRS.
In October, Travelport unveiled a deal to add independent properties to its Travelport Rooms And More service via a deal with France-based Fastbooking.
A year ago Travelport also signed an agreement to offer Hotelzon's 100,000 properties to agents via its Universal API.
In October Amadeus revealed that it was working on advanced search technology for hotels, similar to that released for flights in 2009.
The GDS also said it was working to integrate more hotel aggregators in the back-end which would sit alongside traditional GDS hotel content.