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26 April 2011: Tylney Hall in Hampshire is the proud recipient of an Enjoy England Award for Excellence, hosted by VisitEngland on 15 April, scooping up a much deserved Silver Medal in the category of “Outstanding Customer Service”. The quintessentially English Grade II listed mansion is set in 66 acres of beautiful historic gardens and […]
Tylney Hall receives Silver Medal is a post from: Global-Travels England
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.
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We will be using this space to share our opinions on the business travel sector, give insights on the hotel industry, 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 our industry.
We very much welcome your comments and suggestions!
This year already we’ve signed a direct connectivity deal with IHG, collaborated with Travelport, acquired HVO – a Finnish HBA, appointed new staff members, moved our management team from Finland to London as well as launched our new website! Lots of more is to become.
Over the last 18 months Hotelzon has worked hard to form a strategic partnership with Travelport. The GDS (Global Distribution System) Galileo is one of the world’s largest travel content providers and is widely used in the UK & Europe. And in a number of cases we share customers. I have been involved in the project quite heavily and it’s one of the most interesting ones I have encountered in my career, in my experience of rolling this product out it has been greatly received.
It’s now 397 days to go before the 2012 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 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 our heads in disbelief at the wages that R
When talking to hoteliers you often get the com
ment “You cannot imagine how busy I am running this hotel making my customers happy and now you want me to evaluate another sales opportunity”. I have worked in the operations' side of hotel business for over 10 years. I started as a receptionist and worked my way up to general management.
Half year has passed and we are enjoying summer season in this part of the world. It is also a vacation season in Nordics in July and most of the Europe during the August. We had a summer party in Hotelzon Finland and traditional summer BBQ with our HZUK team. This is a good time of year to recap what happened earlier this year and how the second half is looking.
Recently I took part in the HBAA Technology Showcase where I had the opportunity to present to the group on the offering that Hotelzon can provide to the hotel booking industry.
My presentation although be it somewhat shorter than my usual pitch! covered how Hotelzon can provide software as a solution to all areas of a hotel booking, Such as:
Online booking tool for travel/hotel booking agencies with access to 140,000 hotels, various automated payment methods and innovative billback/vat reconciliation
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