hotel reservation

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...

"For people who travel a lot, it's extremely important to be recognised by hoteliers, to be able to find their preferences, and to benefit from added services based on their status. While mobile executives are often members of loyalty programmes on a personal basis, whether or not to include this subject in corporate contracts is...

"Companies need solutions that accept all forms of payment. On the one hand, to be able to reconcile data on all hotel expenditure and, on the other, to simplify the payment of overnight stays. Because, as legend has it, not all travellers have a corporate card. Frequent travellers do, but not those who...

"Corporate is the most important segment for our group. So our aim is to cover 100 % of business travellers' expectations. We have a sales department dedicated to large companies, which negotiates preferential rates with them, as well as dynamic rates, in a wide choice of hotels ranging from economy to top-of-the-range....

"At the end of the day, it's the traveller who decides. But travellers tend to want to find the same booking experience, the best prices and the same exhaustive content in the professional world as in B2C. The idea is to provide them with all this, but in an organised way. Our platform deduplicates the different sources of content...

While hotel reservations are now largely automated, the same is far from true for an important component of the business: meetings and seminars. The day we get there, it will be a big step forward," says Paul-Édouard Le Bret of Louvre Hotels. But, for the moment, it's still...

Complex, fragmented, disrupted... the corporate hotel reservation market has been thoroughly shaken up in recent years. Whether through the rise of online travel agencies - the famous OTAs such as Expedia and Booking - or the emergence of specialist platforms such as HRS and HCorpo. Just 10-15 years ago,...

The SAP Concur survey of 1,250 European business travellers reveals a decline in the number of direct hotel and air bookings. From 2017 to 2018, these bookings fell from 79 % to 68 % and from 83 % to 70 % respectively. "62 % business travellers consider that...

Booking.com is strengthening its integration into the world of business travel by teaming up with AirPlus International. Using virtual cards issued by the German specialist in corporate payment solutions, companies can now generate a unique Mastercard number enabling their employees to pay for their accommodation via the Booking.com for Business platform. "This collaboration...

Long layovers, plane delays, last-minute cancellations of appointments: the journey of business travellers is punctuated by hazards that can be a source of stress and reduced productivity. In these conditions, more than one mobile professional has no doubt wished to enjoy the comfort of a hotel room instead of wandering from hotel lobby to airport lounge to consult...

With the simultaneous acquisition of iAlbatros and Xpenditure in March 2017, Sodexo's offensive into the business travel market was only a matter of time. Since 5 June, it's official: a new player has made a remarkable entry into the business travel ecosystem, despite being used to 'disruptive' announcements. Rydoo - as it is called - intends to embody...