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Room for Savings: Optimizing Hotel
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Contents Introduction Overview ....
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Research objectives This CWT resear
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Figure 1: Breakdown of surveyed com
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Key findings in brief The research
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changes. In addition to providing t
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A complex market The complexity of
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A lack of global standards to defin
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Complex pricing Hoteliers use diffe
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Figure 10: Rates remain fairly cons
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Figure 12: Most corporate hotel boo
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Data on hotel spend is however, not
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How to calculate your company’s t
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2. Twenty-one percent savings throu
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Many organizations have yet to opti
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GDS auditing It is important to ens
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1. Consolidate data Travel managers
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Figure 27: Combined TMC and credit
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Figure 28: Recommended data fields
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Hotel category: not the most import
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“No-frills” booking When it com
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In fact, travelers often draw on th
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A number of differences between the
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SUMMARY Understanding traveler need
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2. Ask travelers to use serviced ap
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Figure 41: Recommended rules for bo
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Figure 43: Rates are on average 18-
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Figure 46: In a rate benchmarking e
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5. Mandate booking at least two wee
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6. Address extra charges Travelers
- Page 62 and 63: SUMMARY An optimal hotel policy cov
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- Page 66 and 67: Identifying properties and location
- Page 68 and 69: Considering local market conditions
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- Page 80 and 81: SUMMARY Key points for optimizing a
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- Page 84 and 85: Chain-wide agreements, as the name
- Page 86 and 87: Chain-wide deals tend to offer smal
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- Page 90 and 91: Despite this reticence, 40 percent
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- Page 94 and 95: Last-room availability A last-room
- Page 96 and 97: LRA is common in corporate contract
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- Page 100 and 101: Companies can consolidate volumes i
- Page 102 and 103: Leverage city caps. Experience sugg
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- Page 106 and 107: Buyers should use the full range of
- Page 108 and 109: Hoteliers’ performance. A hotelie
- Page 110 and 111: Ensure your travel management team
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- Page 118 and 119: Explain the stakes. Price-conscious
- Page 120 and 121: Figure 112 shows how an OBT can be
- Page 122 and 123: Require travelers to book their hot
- Page 124 and 125: Investigate the reasons for noncomp
- Page 126 and 127: To ensure that the agreed condition
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- Page 130 and 131: Rate audits pay A rate audit conduc
- Page 132 and 133: Tracking traveler compliance Compan
- Page 134 and 135: SUMMARY Tracking performance: Compa
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