hotel reservation

The main news for Hcorpo in 2024 was the announcement of your partnership with TotalEnergies to add a hotel component to their Mobility Corporate payment card. What are the advantages of this partnership for users of the card? Salomé Mogier - TotalEnergies chose us after an invitation to tender, and their...

Corporate hotel reservation specialist CDS Groupe is continuing to expand its presence in Europe. In 2023, the group had already acquired Corporate Rates Club, a hotel reservation platform renowned in Germany, particularly among SMEs, and a competitor of HRS in this market. This was in addition to the acquisition of the travel business...

TotalEnergies' Mobility Business offer has been extended to include the hotel sector, with the integration of Hcorpo's solutions. The Mobility Corporate Card, launched in 2021 to extend the range of possibilities offered by its Fleet Fuel Card, already enabled employees to pay for all their business travel expenses, without any advance payments or receipts.

Put on the back burner during the covid, business travel has returned to near pre-pandemic levels. This means that business travel makes real economic sense for companies, as the latest American Express study shows. Arnaud Bernet - Business travel has long been regarded as a cost centre. Through this study...

The pandemic demonstrated the vitality of SMEs and SMIs, who were the first to return to business travel when the first restrictions were lifted. It's a trend that has continued unabated ever since, and one that is of the utmost interest to the leaders in the hotel industry, who were previously more inclined to pamper large multinationals than to attract this...

Since the pandemic, the Accor group's Northern Europe division has made a habit of bringing together its key account clients at the Masters of Travel event. This was a way of taking the pulse of developments in the still faltering business travel sector, with participants from a wide range of sectors, including Germany, the UK, Sweden and Poland....

"To be the best rather than the biggest". For Stephan Baars, head of BCD Travel, American Express GBT's takeover of CWT - Europe's No. 1 and No. 3 business travel agencies respectively, with BCD sandwiched between the two - is not a cause for concern: "They were already No. 1, so there's no need to...

Organising an entire business trip, booking a train, a car or a hotel: all this is now possible via the SNCF Connect website or app. While the site already invited travellers to hire a car by linking up with Avis-Budget, accommodation has now been added to the booking process...

"A return to a certain normality after years of post-Covid recovery": the 2024 edition of the American Express GBT Business Travel Barometer translates into figures what most players in business tourism have been able to feel: an upward trend in travel volumes in 2023. However, after a...

Paris and London in the lead: the traditional powerhouses of the European hotel industry have regained their full appeal to travellers, whether they are tourists passing through or business travellers on the move. In these two cities, as in many others across France and Europe, the combination of these two customer groups is driving up the...

Attracting SMEs. In view of the business that these medium-sized companies were able to bring to hoteliers during the pandemic, more than one group has (re)discovered the benefits of supporting this clientele through offers calibrated to meet their expectations, such as Marriott Bonvoy Business Ready or Accor Business Offer Auto-Enrol. For its part,...

The time is probably not so far off when booking meetings online and in real time will be commonplace. Each of the major hotel groups is exploring solutions aimed at providing a simple, practical way of seamlessly managing relations between establishments and meeting organisers. In...

CDS Groupe has just announced its integration into the Cytric solution from Amadeus. Why was this essential? Ziad Minkara - CDS needs to respond to its integration into the world of online booking tools. We are publishers of totally agnostic solutions, which can be integrated into any online booking tool. In this context,...

Business travellers around the world are still paying more and more for their accommodation. While hotel rates have started to rise above 2019 levels fairly quickly, American Express GBT is forecasting a widespread increase for the coming year. Its Hotel Monitor 2024 report estimates the evolution of...

In addition to the sharp rise in hotel rates in Paris, should business travellers expect a new tax hike in the near future? As part of an agreement between the French government and Île-de-France Mobilités on the financing of the Paris region's transport system for the period 2024-2031, the taxe de séjour...

Choose a room with a view, select two beds rather than a double, opt for lounge access: the IHG Group website is enriching the booking experience for travellers. This evolution takes advantage of next-generation cloud solutions, notably through IHG's partnership with Amadeus. "We are setting a new standard...

Specialising in business hotel reservations, CDS Groupe is continuing its expansion in Europe with the acquisition of the German business portal CRC (Corporate Rate Club). The takeover of this player, which was launched in 2002 and offers services ranging from hotel reservations to payment, and which will continue to operate independently, creates a new market...

The European section of the 2023 Cvent Travel Managers report is based on the testimonies of some 600 managers in six European markets. In addition to France, the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands were also surveyed. And, unsurprisingly, after having focused on health issues during the crisis, the control of...

The aim of the new agreement unveiled by CWT on 11 May is to combine the flexibility of Booking with the service of a global TMC. The business travel agency has joined forces with the business travel arm of the platform, Booking.com for Business, to enhance hotel bookings with a duty of care component. The launch of this...

The long-awaited possibility of easily organising small meetings online is no longer so far away. The Radisson group has recently enhanced its meetings offering with the launch of a real-time booking platform. Called Book it easy, this solution is designed to simplify the lives of organisers by offering them a fast and simple process...