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Posts Tagged ‘Hotel negotiations’
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28 JUL 2011 |
Hotel Rate Negotiations for 2012
Posted in Blog, The Wire by AirPlus US Team
Nearly half of all travel managers expect 2012 to bring an increase in negotiated hotel rates along with rising hotel volume and corporate hotel budgets. Many corporate travel managers are optimistic about business travel in 2012, with nearly half of the corporate travel managers responding to an AirPlus survey expecting both their company’s total room nights to increase in 2012 (47 percent) and their company’s overall hotel budget to increase (48 percent). Another 44 percent expect their total room nights to stay the same, while only 9 percent are anticipating a decrease.
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28 SEP 2009 |
Hotel negotiations in focus
Posted in Blog, The Wire by AirPlus US Team
Travel buyers are looking to capitalize on weak hotel markets to garner additional savings in 2010 In this issue of The Wire…from AirPlus, we asked 142 travel management professionals in September for their thoughts. They hope to capitalize on the weak hotel markets which in fact may not be so difficult to do. The overall hotel market projected to decline further next year, and hotel suppliers looking to lock in corporate travel and meetings contracts that will help keep their occupancy levels up. Read more
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