Tag: lodging
What’s The Price Of An Uncleaned Hotel Room?
By Concepción de León, a travel reporter for The New York Times based in New York. When Alex Diaz was furloughed last March, along with…
Marriott Again Wants To Skip Corporate Rate Negotiations As Hotel Pricing Remains Volatile
As it and several other hotel companies did last year, Marriott International told corporate accounts it would roll over current-year negotiated rates to next year…
Farewell, Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy
By Kevin Roose, a technology columnist and author of “Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation.” A few years ago, while on…
Adding Air, Tripbam Begins Evolution To Corporate Travel Spend Management Platform
Known as a corporate hotel program aide, Tripbam is spreading its wings into the air category. It plans to mimic its lodging capabilities and capture…
Reporter’s Notebook: Feds On Health Passports, Buyers On TMC Services, Hotel Sourcing Strategies, Going Green In Lodging
Today’s industry dialogue is all about how and when business travel comes back. A big part of the how is making travelers feel confident and…
As Tripbam Spins Up Hotel Sourcing Service, Chains Oppose Getting Cut Out
Corporate customers constantly reshopping rates is bad for hotels, but so long as properties publish lower rates, revenue managers have little recourse. It didn’t matter…
Op Ed: Derek Sharp On The Annual Hotel RFP’s Diminished Role
Complicated in the best of times, hotel sourcing is particularly tricky right now. Derek Sharp, SVP and COO for CWT’s RoomIt, makes the case for…
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