Bradford-based online travel specialist Redfern Travel has secured a deal to become the first company to offer accommodation from international hotel room provider LateRooms.com.

Key to winning the deal was Redfern’s award-winning online booking system tRIPS, which provides clients with a one-stop shop to help them plan and organise their journeys, including helping them to find the cheapest and greenest travel options.

As a result of the deal, tRIPS (the Redfern Intelligent Packaging System) will include rooms and venues available from the online hotels specialist, which offers deals on 44,000 rooms worldwide.

It is the first agreement of its kind for LateRooms, with Redfern becoming the first travel management company to work alongside it.

Mike Wheadon, LateRooms partnership sales manager, said: “Our agreement with Redfern presents a whole new opportunity for LateRooms to work with a leading travel management company and to deliver LateRooms products to those corporations and public sector bodies working with Redfern.”

The deal will allow clients to access real-time room availability through Redfern’s online booking system, which provides access to air, rail, hotel and transport providers.

Mark Bowers, Redfern’s joint chief executive, said: “Making travel cheaper, quicker and easier is our business. The agreement with LateRooms does exactly that and offers our clients an unprecedented service.

“We’re excited at the prospect of working with LateRooms as it brings together two companies committed to innovation to make clients’ lives easier.”

Founded in 1937, Redfern Travel featured in the recent Yorkshire’s Fastest 50 list after being included in the 2010 list of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing companies.

Since transforming from a traditional travel agency and focusing on IT-led travel management for corporate customers, Redfern has become one of the main suppliers to the UK Government, managing more Government accounts than any other equivalent company in the country.

Redfern Travel has a significantly-boosted turnover since 2006 from £9m to £40m in 2010. The business was acquired in 1999 by Alpha-Omega which has focused its operations on travel management, mainly booking rooms, train and airline tickets. It has more than 30 staff handling around 17,000 transactions a year from 100,000 registered users of its system.

Redfern’s success stemmed from successfully bidding for its first framework agreement with the Government’s procurement services in 2006.

Public sector work accounts for around 60 per cent of its business, including a £3.5m contract with the Environment Agency, as well as other departments and many local authorities.

Mr Bowers said the impact of public spending cuts had been largely offset by winning more business from private sector clients, which would remain a key part of its future strategy.