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Organising business travel in a more eco-responsible way. This ambition is based on the desire, now widely shared at global level, by governments, companies and individuals alike, to make sustainable development the major issue of the years to come. But this desire to reduce emissions and, ultimately, to become carbon neutral...

Booking meetings online has always been a great expectation of both hoteliers and event organisers. It's almost like a sea serpent for the entire sector. In order to accelerate its development, four of the major hotel groups - Accor, Hilton, IHG and Marriott - together invested 50 million dollars in...

SAP Concur, a leading provider of travel and expense management solutions, is strengthening its offering with two new agreements. The first, with International SOS, covers business travel security, while the second, with American Express GBT (GBT), strengthens the company's hotel offering. Within this framework, the...

Already partners on the reservation side, Booking.com and Amadeus are expanding their joint offering with a new partnership extended to include virtual payment solutions specialist Conferma Pay. The aim is to offer business travellers a simplified payment process at check-out, without having to take out their credit card. 80% of the establishments distributed by Booking.com...

Marriott International is supporting business travel for companies with fewer than 250 employees with the development of the Marriott Bonvoy Business Ready programme, based on a platform specifically designed for SMEs in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). This programme enables them to book their travel easily while benefiting from discounts of up to 8...

Do you think the current crisis will have a lasting impact on business travel? Audrey Serror - The announcement of a potentially effective vaccine opens up positive prospects, which we didn't have until a few days ago. We are undoubtedly moving towards an end to the health crisis next June, as Emmanuel Macron had said. However...

Business travellers who need to get around despite the confinement will be able to take advantage of the offers and benefits reserved for customers of the HCorpo hotel reservation centre by becoming a member of the ALL-Accor Live Limitless loyalty programme. New members who join the programme before the end of the year will receive 500 "Reward...

Rydoo is adding a very contemporary feature to its business travel and expense management solution: a "Clean & Safe" tag informing users about hotels that have been reopened and their compliance with safety regulations. As part of their search, travellers will be able to find...

BNP Paribas and HCorpo have signed a strategic agreement to combine the services of the B2B hotel distribution specialist with the payment solutions of the French bank, one of the leaders in the sector in Europe. Providing access to more than one million hotels worldwide, the reservation centre for key accounts integrates the hotel's...

Given the diversity of protocols put in place by hoteliers to limit the effects of the pandemic, CDS Groupe intends to sort the wheat from the chaff by introducing a "Covid-19 index" within its booking tool. This initiative has a number of aims: to inform travellers, reassure them that they are respecting...

Leboncoin, a potential competitor for Booking or Expedia? The e-commerce site intends to carve out a place for itself in the hotel booking market by offering lower commission rates. At a time when the French hotel industry is feeling the full brunt of the health crisis, France's number 2 holiday rental market is committed to supporting the recovery...

Admittedly, this is not the time for all-out bookings in the business travel sector... But it is also important to prepare for the future, and CWT has therefore been working to improve the booking experience for its travellers. The business travel agency has been working on this issue, adopting a multi-pronged approach. Clearly, professionals...

The cybersecurity of the leaders in the world of travel has once again been called into question. In December 2018, Marriott revealed that 500 million customers who had booked a hotel with the former Starwood group had had their data hacked. This time, it is the turn of a subsidiary of the Accor group, the Gekko group, to be...

Many business and leisure travellers are frustrated when they book a hotel on an online site, only to find a few days later that the rates have fallen. It's a frustration that can also be found in air and rail ticketing, especially as today's technologies can refine and monitor the price of tickets...

A new study by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) suggests that nearly one in four American consumers (23%) say they have been deceived by third-party resellers, either over the phone or online. This scam is estimated to be worth US$5.7 billion in fraudulent hotel reservation transactions alone...

Based in Amsterdam, with offices in Krakow, Istanbul and Paris, Bidroom has 125,000 hotels in 128 countries in its catalogue. The fast-growing company is set to employ more than a hundred people by the end of the year, and has decided to launch in the Asia-Pacific region in order to attract new customers in this...

Radisson Collection, Radisson Blu, Radisson, Radisson RED, Park Plaza, Park Inn by Radisson, Country Inn & Suites by Radisson: these are the seven brands of the hotel group now grouped together within a single online booking platform, in addition to the art'otel brand, managed by PPHE Hotel Group. What's more, the new...

AirPlus and HRS, recognised specialists in payment solutions and hotel reservations respectively, have joined forces to publish a new white paper to provide companies with an up-to-date view of business travellers' expectations when it comes to accommodation. The study - available here - illustrates the benefits of payment...

Through the partnership signed on Tuesday with CDS Groupe, Notilus is significantly strengthening its position in the business hotel sector. From April, Notilus users will have full access to the CDS Groupe comparator, to the hotel database backed up by content from Booking.com for Business, Expedia and LateRooms.com, as well as to the CDS Groupe business hotel database.

What can bots, and more generally automation tools, actually do for business travellers and travel managers? This was the question raised by GBTA France at the Experts' Forum organised by the association on 22 January at the French Event Booster at Porte de Versailles. It's a huge subject...