Room for Savings: Optimizing Hotel Spend - Carlson
Room for Savings: Optimizing Hotel Spend - Carlson
Room for Savings: Optimizing Hotel Spend - Carlson
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Ensure your travel management team has<br />
the right resources. Most companies find it<br />
useful to involve local teams at different<br />
stages of the hotel program such as<br />
identifying candidate hotels <strong>for</strong> the RFP,<br />
setting rate objectives and negotiating directly<br />
with properties if required (Figure 101).<br />
Travel managers who handle global<br />
programs generally call on one or two fulltime<br />
equivalents (FTEs) centrally and 0.5-2.5<br />
FTEs at a local level.<br />
Figure 101: Most companies involve local staff at different stages of the hotel program<br />
Source: CWT Travel Management Institute<br />
Based on a survey of travel managers (52 responses)<br />
Work closely with a travel management<br />
company. TMCs can make the RFP process<br />
more efficient, notably by automating<br />
hoteliers’ responses (e.g., via Web-based<br />
tools) and processing the in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
centrally. Moreover, the TMC can provide<br />
support at every stage of the negotiation<br />
process, from contributing expertise on local<br />
markets and setting objectives to discussing<br />
terms with hoteliers and evaluating different<br />
proposals.