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London Olympics, hotel rates – what’s that all about?

It’s now 397 days to go before the 2012 London Olympics commence and it seems the media are determined to shock us over with the outrageous news that, duh, hotels are pricing themselves for the market conditions and hotel rates are skyrocketing.  And...

How big is your hotel inventory?

Over the last couple of years most of the hotel distribution systems/suppliers have made a point in boasting about how many hotels they have within their databases and point of sale booking tools. And I have to admit, Hotelzon is one of them! – By the way we...

Purchasing power by capturing and controlling volumes

This is the time of year when many Travel Managers and Indirect Sourcing professionals are busy negotiating hotel programs, car rental agreements and airline agreements. Even though some companies have chosen to distribute the workload throughout the year by setting...

What is a non-GDS hotel really?

I did a presentation of Hotelzon to a prospect the other day. One of the questions they had was: what is a non-GDS hotel actually? It is a good question especially since we talk about our non-GDS hotel content when we present Hotelzon. It is simply a hotel that you...