Corporate travel term for the practice of including a lodging reservation with an air booking, and the associated rate at which that happens.
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Why do travel management professionals care whether travelers book hotel stays at the same time as flights? There are pragmatic and financial reasons, and several methods to close the loop. Hotel attachment occurs when a lodging booking happens with an air booking, either through an agent or a designated booking tool. The higher the ratio,…
Corporate Travel Management is floating a $5 fee on hotel transactions that don’t generate commissions for the travel management company, according to sources. They did not know whether such a fee would apply to all or hotel-only transactions, online or offline bookings, or existing or new clients. The program could differ by geography. An official…
Atlanta – ExxonMobil’s internal “Do The Math” campaign aims to optimize four aspects of traveler booking behavior: online booking adoption, lowest logical fare use, advance ticket purchasing and preferred hotel utilization. The company’s communications strategy, featuring extensive use of banner ads, was one of three engagement case studies presented here during a panel discussion at…
Four in five business travelers “never” or “rarely” choose out-of-policy options, according to an April BCD Travel poll of 1,201 business travelers worldwide. Seventeen percent indicated they sometimes chose out-of-policy options, 3 percent said they “often” did and 1 percent picked “always.” An unrelated May-June survey by Deloitte of 1,070 U.S. corporate travelers whose companies…
CWT last week announced that its RoomIt division would provide Amazon with hotel category services including sourcing, booking and rate reshopping. Amazon previously used HRS for worldwide sourcing as part of a “multi-year” agreement due to commence in 2019, according to a late 2018 announcement. Business Travel News in September identified Amazon as the largest…
Online booking and agent desktop tech provider Atriis Technologies said Wednesday that it acquired ReTravel.io, a tech and marketing platform designed to help attach items from the long tail of business travel services to booked trips. Execs see the solution as helping with corporate travel policy compliance, duty of care, spend management and overall trip…
Denver-based hotel booking company Hotel Engine expects to more than double its workforce next year by hiring 400 people, thanks partly to about $9 million in incentives from the state of Colorado. The Colorado Economic Development Commission last month approved more than $12 million in incentives to local companies. The largest beneficiary is Hotel Engine,…
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