Hotels
Merger between Marriott and Starwood: What impact?
Last week, Marriott and Starwood announced their merger in a rather terse press release.
For the past few months, rumors of hotel group consolidation have been circulating: merger between Starwood and IHG, Starwood and Accorhotels, Accorhotels and FRHI.
The merger announcement...
Amazon to tackle Expedia and Booking.com duopoly
You may not have seen it coming, but Amazon is now allowing hoteliers to offer their rooms for booking from the famous online retail platform. For some time it has been possible to find hotels by searching on Amazon,...
The necessary reliability of online reviews and comments
One Figaro article of August 23, 2014 reported on the pitfalls relating to online ratings and reviews for restaurateurs, hoteliers and suppliers of leisure activities of all kinds, relating in particular to unfair practices by competitors posting false negative...
Corporate Rates, Professional Subscription Cards, can I use them for my personal trips?
I won't dare to answer easily, it depends (because yes, it goes beyond!), but yet it's very true. A brief overview by area of travel.
The use of Self Booking Tool tools is sometimes open for personal use
Many medium and...
Travel policy: it’s double or nothing!
In May 2012, Concur and the Global Business Travel Association released a startling study on business travel productivity versus whether or not a company has a travel policy.
This study shows that, out of 1,000 travellers, 727 achieve their travel...