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Access Hospitality launches first agentic AI-powered Interactive Booking Engine to end decision overload

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  • 13 June 2025
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Powered by autonomous agents, the engine understands guest intent, adapts in real time, and completes bookings – in one fluid, two-way conversation 

Loughborough, UK, 12 JUNE 2025 – Access Hospitality, the parent company of SHR, Guestline, and STAAH, today unveiled the first booking engine to combine a fully embedded user experience with autonomous, agent-based AI.

Delivered through SHR’s Embedded Booking Engine, the system sits natively within a hotel’s own website – eliminating redirects and reloads – while also integrating deeply with the hotel’s CRS and CRM systems. 

The new Interactive AI Booking Engine replaces traditional booking flows with a system that listens, reasons, and responds – guiding guests through a fluid, two-way conversation instead of a static flow. It intuitively guides guests through every step of their journey, delivering the right information at the right time to support confident decision-making. Bookings are completed seamlessly — without forms, friction, or interruptions – helping drive conversion with every interaction.

At the core of the system is a new generation of agentic AI technology developed by SHR: a coordinated set of specialized agents that work together to optimize and personalize the booking journey in real time. 

Each agent is designed to handle a specific function within the guest experience, retrieving relevant information based on user profile and context, analyzing behavior, tailoring responses and generating dynamic recommendations. The result is an intelligent, adaptive engine that transforms complexity into clarity, continuously aligning the experience to each guest’s needs and confidently guiding them toward the right choice – all aligned with the hotel’s commercial priorities.

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The engine’s capabilities extend far beyond those of a simple chatbot. While chatbots are built to respond to questions, AI Agent systems are built to achieve outcomes. They don’t just wait for input or follow predefined scripts — they interpret intent, reason through complexity, and take meaningful action.

And unlike chatbots, which treat interactions as isolated exchanges, AI Agent systems engage with continuity and purpose — delivering guidance, not just answers, and ensuring that every step leads naturally to the next.

The result is a more human, more helpful, and more effective experience. Guests enjoy a fast, modern, and fully branded journey from start to finish. The interface supports multi-property search, voice and natural language input, voucher use, and upsell offers – while keeping the guest immersed in the hotel’s own site from start to finish.

What makes this possible is SHR’s deep native integration across the CRS and CRM. The AI engine has full access to real-time availability, pricing logic, loyalty entitlements, guest history, and behavioral signals.

For hoteliers, the Interactive AI Booking Engine unlocks a new level of control, agility, and performance. It enables teams to fully own the guest journey, eliminate reliance on third-party layers, and deliver a smarter, more adaptive digital experience, one that evolves in real time with guest behavior. For SHR customers already using the CRS, BE and CRM, the system activates natively, requiring no external vendors or added integrations.

Andrew McGregor, VP Accommodation at Access Hospitality, said: “This launch marks the end of booking as a static transaction. For years, the booking experience has been optimized around the interface: better buttons, fewer clicks, cleaner layouts. But that only goes so far. The real opportunity is in redesigning how decisions are made, not just how they’re displayed. With the Interactive AI Booking Engine, we’re stepping into a new era where the system doesn’t wait for perfect input – it listens, interprets, and acts. It’s a fully integrated intelligence layer that understands guest context, applies dynamic logic, and completes bookings in real time. We’ve given hotels a way to move beyond static funnels and into dynamic, conversation-driven engagement that adapts to the guest with every step.”

Access Hospitality is defining this new product category as Agentic Hospitality – a model where guest-facing technology doesn’t just present options but proactively supports decisions and drives outcomes. 

To learn more, visit here.

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Amy Deverson, PR Manager
amy@abodeworldwide.com

About Access Hospitality

The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered business management software providers. It provides solutions that empower more than 128,000 small and mid-sized organisations in commercial and non-profit sectors across Europe, USA, and APAC, giving every employee the freedom to do more of what’s important. Its innovative cloud solutions and integrated AI software experience across multiple Access products transform how business technology is used. Access employs over 7,000 people, continuously driving product innovation and customer service excellence.

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