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 there’s the clue – market conditions: was there ever a law against pricing a product according to what people are prepared to pay? Look at footballers: we all shake ou
London Olympics, hotel rates – what’s that all about?
October 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
How big is your hotel inventory?
October 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 have 140,000 hotels.
But what does it all mean? Why would one company boast about having a global hotel inventory as low as 35,000 hotels (or even 140,000 hotels!!) when there are companies saying that they have over 200,000.
Purchasing power by capturing and controlling volumes
October 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 different agreement terms within the different categories, many hotel and airline contracts are still negotiated for a calendar year at a time.
As commonly known, tracking your volumes and being able to steer booking behavior is the key to purchasing power and beneficial partnerships.
Welcome to Hotelzon’s blog – Insights on the travel and hotel industry
October 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
We will be using this blog to share our insights on the hotel industry, our opinions on the business travel sector and provide interesting stories and personal experiences.
To be able to give different viewpoints on our blog, there will be posts from various members of Hotelzon including the CEO Jani Kaskinen and guest bloggers from other areas of the travel and hospitality industry.
We very much welcome your comments and suggestions!
What is a non-GDS hotel really?
October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 cannot book in the GDS systems.
Back to basics
September 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
When started to develop marketing at Hotelzon 10 months ago, I had to go philosophical. After working for years in big global corporations with thousands of employees and clear processes, moving to a smaller, fast growing company, going back to basics was nothing but essential. Didn’t go far enough to ask myself “who am I” as that’s what I somewhat knew already, but I had to ask “why am I here – what is the ultimate purpose of marketing as a whole”.
The Diverse World of Human Resources
September 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
There are not many departments that in one breath can be involved in developing strategies and in the next offering a cup of tea and a box of tissues to a distressed employee. So what is Human Resources? This is something I have been asked on many an occasion and still struggle to come up with a one sentence answer. So, to summarise (so you don’t fall asleep reading this) here is my interpretation of what we do…………..
Falcondale Hotel goes the extra mile
September 5, 2011 By 1 Comment
With around 5% of people having a clinically diagnosed food allergy, and growing numbers suffering unpleasant reactions to certain ingredients, the…
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Season starts – we are ready to rock!
August 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In corporate business travel industry, the busiest seasons are spring and autumn. We are now entering to the busiest time of the year and also starting major projects in Hotelzon. In order to be ready and on fire for growth, we have strengthen our organization and top management. It is always exciting to get new people in with fresh, innovative views in company. It also broadens the views and knowledge for existing employees.
The South West Tourism Excellence Award for Cornwall
August 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The spotlight shone on Cornwall in last nights (15 November 2010) South West Tourism Excellence Awards 2010/2011 with more top titles being claimed by Cornish businesses than any other county. Seven of the seventeen gold trophies went in Cornwall’s favour including the coveted Winner of Winners award which The Scarlet collected having also won Small […]
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