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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Seven steps to optimize hotel spend > Optimize the preferred hotel program<br />
To select the appropriate categories, CWT offers<br />
the following advice:<br />
Benchmark the use of different hotel<br />
categories among peers (i.e., companies<br />
with a similar profile and in the same<br />
industry) with help from the travel<br />
management company. CWT client data<br />
shows notable differences between sectors<br />
and even between different companies<br />
within the same sectors (Figure 61).<br />
Figure 61: The share of hotel categories used varies between sectors and companies in the<br />
same sectors<br />
Total room nights by hotel category (2008)<br />
40%<br />
25%<br />
18% 17% 12% 7%<br />
22%<br />
52%<br />
65%<br />
69%<br />
61% 70%<br />
81%<br />
60%<br />
Banking & finance<br />
8% 9% 13%<br />
22% 17%<br />
11% 18%<br />
0% 1% 0% 0% 1% 1%<br />
0%<br />
Petroleum, energy & mining<br />
Pharmaceutical<br />
Consumer goods<br />
Telecommunications<br />
Automotive<br />
Average<br />
Economy<br />
Standard<br />
First<br />
Deluxe<br />
Source: CWT Travel Management Institute<br />
Based on transaction data (3,036,799 room nights)<br />
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