Gloria Guevara, President & CEO of World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) gave an opening keynote speech at the G20 Tourism Ministers Meeting, as Ministers gathered to discuss the G20 Rome Guidelines for the Future of Tourism.
Ona Hotels has selected SiteMinder, the world's largest open hotel commerce platform, to support the process of digitally transforming its 25-year business and consolidating its technology as it prepares for future growth. The appointment will see Ona Hotels adopt a more dynamic pricing strategy with SiteMinder and distribute its portfolio of 8000 rooms through SiteMinder's platform.
As hotels gear up to reopen on May 17, a collection of properties in London has teamed up to offer discounted stays and "value-added packages" to encourage bookings in the capital.
The association justifies its commitment to help hoteliers to their rights in court. Since 2004 at the latest, the booking portal has applied best-price clauses with which it prohibited affiliated hotels from offering rooms at lower rates through any other distribution channel. With these clauses, Booking.com shielded its business model against any competition in violation of antitrust law, which ultimately allowed the company to collect booking commissions of up to 50% of the room rate from hoteliers.
Situated at the top of the Valle del Boite, the Northern Italian resort of Cortina is blessed with 360-degree views of the Dolomites.
After four intense, insightful days filled with thought-provoking panels and keynotes by highly experienced industry professionals, yet another successful edition of the Young Hoteliers Summit was completed! This year, around 40 esteemed speakers and our 69 student delegates joined us online from all over the world to discuss, debate, and to answer the common question: How can we Rethink, Re-Sculpt and Rejuvenate the hospitality industry?
Revenue by Design, leading revenue management training and outsource provider, today launched Revenue Academy, an online learning platform designed to share, build and drive revenue management knowledge and understanding throughout the industry.
Whitbread is announcing it has opened its first warehouse in Haiger, Germany as part of a long-term solution to support Premier Inn's exciting growth plans.
That's why Maritim Hotels are making things easy. "MyMaritim" points are collected for every online booking made through the Maritim website. 1,000 welcome points are awarded as soon as customers register for the free scheme. Customers can then use some or all of the points the next time they make an online booking. There are no restricted dates or seasons and no minimum points threshold. Best of all, MyMaritim members will always save at least 10 percent compared to offers available on the internet. This applies to all prices, regardless of whether breakfast is included.
Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a leading software and technology provider powering the global travel industry, today announced a strategic long-term technology partnership with Louvre Hotels Group, Europe's second-largest enterprise hotel group counting almost 1,600 hotels across 54 countries and a subsidiary of Jin Jiang International.
In a world dominated by the doom and gloom of the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing that is prevailing in these uncertain times, is kindness. Nearly half (46%) of Britons report, that they have become kinder in order to help restore faith in humanity.
Covid-19 has hit businesses of just about every shape and size hard, but few have felt the effects quite as strongly as those in the hospitality industry. Bars, restaurants and hotels in many parts of the world have been forced to close as restrictions to limit the spread of the Coronavirus have taken hold.
For almost a year, the pandemic has impacted travel. We have seen plans in a state of flux, not just for the young, but for every generation. With the travel corridor list everchanging and the UK infection rate rising again, the travel industry's need to adopt flexible policies and take proper health and safety precautions is more important than ever.
Customer satisfaction levels across the travel sector have fallen to the lowest level in more than a decade as companies struggled to confront the Covid-19 crisis.
IDeaS, a SAS company, the world's leading provider of hotel revenue management software and services, announced today Park Regis Birmingham has switched revenue technology providers to implement IDeaS G3 Revenue Management System (RMS).
A survey by hotel loyalty programme Wyndham Rewards polling over 4,000 members across Europe, Middle East, Africa and Eurasia (EMEA) in November - including a representative sample of over 1,700 UK respondents* - has revealed the type of trips British travellers are planning for 2021 when they can travel again and the factors that feed into those choices.
INNSiDE Manchester, part of Meliá Hotels International, has partnered with one of the UK's leading technical event production and AV hire companies, Sterling Event Group to launch Manchester's first virtual event production studio in a hotel.
In order to give executives from the individual and chain hotel industry insights into the hotel tech market, the first German Hotel Technology Report was published by Hotelhero in partnership with the German Hotel Association (IHA) and in cooperation with HSMA Deutschland e.V. and techtalk.travel. This report underlines the importance for hotels to rely on a strong digital strategy in order to survive in the market even after the lockdown.
Luxury hotel Sofitel Legend The Grand Amsterdam, a 5-star property steeped in history, has adopted Oaky as their digital upselling platform. Located in the heart of Amsterdam in a monumental canal-side building, the hotel's unparalleled reputation attracts visitors from all corners of the globe.
Adara, the leader in verified identity and permissioned data, reveals that the UK leads Europe in willingness to travel internationally. In a study of bookings, departures and searches from 10th November 2020 extending until early 2021, the data also shows that across Europe, travellers are either booking at the very last minute or far in advance as COVID-19 continues to create uncertainty.