ACCOR : accorhotels.com And The Group's Hotel Sites Exceed Their Results For Full-Year 2001 In Just Over More Six Months
Over two million nights reserved since the beginning of 2002
Paris - At July 15, Accor had registered, more than two million room nights in the Group's 3,700 hotels since the beginning of the year via its online, real-time hotel reservation service. This exceeds the results for full-year 2001 and confirms the reservation service's position as Europe's leading hotel website.
A room reserved every nine seconds
Since the beginning of the year, Accor has recorded 25 million visits to all its hotel websites, which include the
Sustained development in first-half 2002
A large number of new online services were introduced in the first six months of 2002, including, for example:
- A new 'Promotions' module featuring all the Group's special leisure, weekend and short-stay offers.
- 'Compliments from Accor Hotels', a dedicated loyalty program section, where visitors can subscribe to loyalty cards and check their points online.
- A new worldwide service for confirming reservations via SMS on mobile phones (in France: Bouygues Telecom, Orange, SFR), for customers registered on
Accorhotels.com . - A business section reserved for companies and travel agencies.
With 147,000 associates in 140 countries, Accor is the European leader and one of the world's largest groups in travel, tourism and corporate services, with two major international activities: - hotels: more than 3,700 hotels (423,000 rooms) in 90 countries, casinos, travel agencies, and restaurants;
services to corporate clients and public institutions: each day, 13 million people in 31 countries use a broad range of services (food vouchers, people care and services, incentive, loyalty programs, events) engineered and managed by Accor.