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Environmental issues are now on everyone's minds, in companies and among their employees. However, to move from words to deeds, you sometimes need a carrot, a stimulus. With this in mind, HCorpo's parent company, the Gekko Group, has launched the Miles & Act programme, presented as the first of its kind in...

Through your booking channels, are you seeing an upturn in business travel? Ziad Minkara - Yes, absolutely, at least at national level. This upturn was already noticeable from June onwards, and has become real and tangible since September, with people travelling by train to destinations where the round trip in the...

Less frequent but longer stays: this is one of the expected developments in post-Covid business travel. What many observers predicted is actually happening. Hotel reservation specialist HRS, among others, has noted this, with long stays of 8 to 13 nights accounting for 39.2 % of bookings for...

Reserving meeting rooms and bedrooms online in real time will soon be possible on the meetings.accor.com website. Over the next few months, the French group will be rolling out the GroupSync cloud solution developed by Groups360 for group bookings. By the end of...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is undoubtedly one of the major issues for the future of business travel. And if it is to be properly managed, it requires accurate information to help managers steer their travel policies accordingly. As far as hotel reservations are concerned, one of the main players, HRS, presented its...

Trains, hotels and hire cars: these three key components of domestic business travel have been brought together in the new Travel offering launched by Notilus. "This is part of our drive to simplify business travel for our users, from preparing their trip to processing their expense claim", said Notilus CEO, Philippe...

After a year-long break, the grey cells of the business travel industry are invited to get back to work. On 5 and 6 October, fifteen teams will be meeting at IFTM Top Resa 2021. Their mission: "To reinvent the French market place for business hotels". A huge subject - and a crucial one...

As business travel prepares to return to a more normal routine, NH Hotels is offering new benefits and discounts to companies. The Spanish group has just unveiled its NH+ Business programme, which includes discounts on accommodation and other privileges. The discounts are based on the number of nights spent in the group's hotels....

You're never better served than by yourself. Used to managing holidays on behalf of the millions of users of its application, the Kayak website is now entering the hotel business. The world's leading travel search engine, which is part of the Booking Holdings galaxy, has announced that it will be opening a hotel in April...

HRS recently announced the launch of a sustainable hotel booking initiative. Does the subject of CSR seem more topical than ever within companies? Emmanuel Ebray - Indeed. Whether it's with a customer or a prospect, with a company or an institution, I never have a single exchange...

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...