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🚀 Katanox and Guestline Partnership: A Change for Business Travel Accommodations 🏨 Exciting news for #BusinessTravelers and #HospitalityIndustry professionals! Amsterdam-based Katanox, a leader in accommodation distribution, has joined forces with UK's top hospitality tech provider, Guestline. This partnership is set to change how hotels connect with their customers. 🌐 What This Means: - Direct Distribution: Hotels using Guestline can now seamlessly integrate with Katanox, offering direct distribution to Katanox’s diverse range of demand partners. - Tailored Commission Rates: Accommodation providers have the flexibility to set their commission percentages, crafting bespoke agreements with demand partners. - Efficient Booking Management: Bookings are effortlessly pushed to Guestline’s platform, while Katanox handles the intricate reconciliation process. 🔑 Key Benefits: - Enhanced Visibility: This integration opens doors for travel management companies (TMCs) to access quality hotel supply. - Build Strong Relationships: Hotels gain the unique opportunity to forge direct, lasting connections with demand partners. - Bypass Traditional Systems: Manage rates, inventory, and payments through an API, moving beyond conventional global distribution systems (GDSs). 🔗 Lasting Impact: With Katanox's latest partnership with ArrangeMy for direct booking capabilities and now Guestline, the future of Katanox's hotel booking and management looks more streamlined and interconnected than ever. 🌟 Embrace this cutting-edge approach to hotel booking and management. Leverage Katanox and Guestline's synergy to elevate your business travel experience! #Katanox #Guestline #HotelIndustry #InnovationInTravel #TravelTech #DirectBooking #BusinessTravelSolutions 🛎️🔑📈

Travel + Leisure Co. today announced it was named among the World’s Most Trustworthy Companies in 2024 by Newsweek. This is the second consecutive year the company received this distinction following the introduction of the World’s Most Trustworthy Companies list in 2023. (Photo: Business Wire) The Newsweek World’s Most Trustworthy Companies ranking showcases companies with the highest global trust levels, a metric that reflects customer loyalty, brand reputation, employee morale, and investor confidence. Being named to this list for a second year strengthens the reputation of Travel + Leisure Co. as a company that prioritizes its customers, employees and investors while excelling on a global scale. Read more at https://lnkd.in/gKbSS5Yy

Global Savings Group 🤝 Hotels.com We've worked with Hotels.com to offer cashback to iGraal and Shoop Cashback Rewards | part of Global Savings Group users for many years now. But at the start of 2024, we decided to take our relationship to the next level. Together, we’ve been on a mission to make travel booking as rewarding as finding reliable free Wi-Fi at the airport. Just look at what we've achieved together so far this year: 💶 50% increase in total spend: Consumer spending surged by over 50% in the first four months of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. 📈 30% higher purchase frequency: People are booking trips with Hotels.com like it’s going out of style - on average booking 30% more frequently than they do with other accommodation booking sites. Discover how our collaboration with Hotels.com is setting new benchmarks in the travel industry. Read the full case study now ⬇

🛎 Want to know how to utilise cashback effectively in your partnerships? Then look no further than this fantastic case study by Global Savings Group and Hotels.com. 🤝 It shows the power of collaboration when it comes to cashback works wonders. Cashback as a partnership and affiliate tactic should not be run in silos. It's a collaboration at the end of the day and the closer you work with your partner on it the better the results. #partnerships #cashback #affiliatemarketing

Trip.com Group reports revenue gains across accommodation, transportation ticketing, corporate travel and packages for Q4 2023. Read more on #PhocusWire: https://bit.ly/49H7A9T #travelnews #travelindustrynews #travelindustry #tripcom

Trip.com Group reports revenue gains across accommodation, transportation ticketing, corporate travel and packages for Q4 2023. Read more on #PhocusWire: https://bit.ly/49H7A9T #travelnews #travelindustrynews #travelindustry #tripcom

Are you hearing conflicting messages that your company doesn't need negotiated rates and/or approval for business travel? Do you question why some travellers book whatever hotel they want outside of your #travelmanagementcompany? ✋ Managing a #businesstravel program means visibility on the cost of business travel to your business, knowing where your travellers are in case of an emergency and pinpointing areas where you can maximise your company’s precious business travel spend 💲 to enable people to meet face to face, whether it’s for internal gatherings or customer meetings. You may also be dealing with travellers that like to shop around on leisure sites, who believe they might have find a ‘better deal' somewhere else. Often, they don't understand the duty of care and cost ramifications to the company by booking outside of your managed program. Nor the volume commitments your company has with hotels (that are popular with your travellers at large...), or the compliance and audit processes your company needs, enabled by approval for business travel ✅ With American Express Global Business Travel's marketplace and Egencia's powerful analytics and #machinelearning baked into the shopping and booking experience, there’s no need to shop around. And you get complete visibility on spend. Read more about the tools and features available to your travellers from Daniel Dakessian 👇 https://lnkd.in/ekexbNZj

Really interesting report from The Business Travel Magazine 👀👇 Perhaps it's time for a change of focus? Selling flights in the current #BusinessTravel landscape may be challenging, but HotelHub technology is specifically designed to make #TMCs indispensable in booking hotels for corporates. Get in touch if you'd like to chat about how you can provide the hotel content your customers really want, exactly where they want it: https://bit.ly/HHubInfo https://lnkd.in/gWy_GBdF

NEWS: Hilton launches travel management programme for SMEs – the global programme offers help with the travel booking experience and rewards SMEs for loyalty. Click below for the full story #hotels #hotelnews #hospitalitynews #travelindustry #travelindustrynews #hotelgroups #businesstravel #corporatetravel #travelmanagement #SMEs

“Why should I book with Fora when I could just book through Amex?” This is one of the most common questions I get, along with… “Aren’t the hotel perks the same? And what about that 5x points value? Why is booking with Fora better?” Read on to learn why booking travel with me means a better booking & travel experience. https://lnkd.in/e5TS8vrv #travel #travelagent #foratraveladvisor #hotelpartner #hotelperks #travelbetter