HotelREZ partners with iWTX/Illusions. Drives Tour Operator and DMC revenues to HotelREZ members HotelREZ Hotels & Resorts, one of the world’s largest, quality driven representation and distribution companies and global partner of the technology company Sabre, has partnered with iWTX/Illusions to streamline distribution to tour operators and destination management companies (DMCs) using automation on a…
read moreNovember 2020 One of the UK’s oldest and most prestigious independent groups; Corus Hotels and Laura Ashley Hotels has selected HotelREZ as its global sales, distribution and representation partner. Targeting growth from leisure and business travellers to their locations across the United Kingdom, HotelREZ will provide full representation services to include GDS (Global Distribution Service)…
read moreCurrently, 96% of people travelling for leisure purposes start their travel planning with an online search. Over the past years, showing up high up in those searches has become a priority, and Google is a popular distribution channel for hotels. As a result, both hotels and OTAs have been bidding money to show up for…
read moreMore than 51% of travellers are currently using online travel agencies (OTAs), such as Expedia, Booking.com and Hotels.com, to book trips. This makes OTAs a popular distribution channel for hotels. Before OTAs, hotels would sell to wholesalers, who in turn would sell the rooms to tour operators. These tour operators would then sell them on…
read moreOTAs, short for Online Travel Agencies, make up an important distribution channel for most travel businesses as more than half of all travellers use an OTA to plan their upcoming trips. For millennials, the figures are even more drastic: a recent report found that over 80% of bookings were made online by under-30s, with OTAs…
read moreThe Global Distribution System (GDS), is a computer reservation system that allows travel agents to book hotel and travel services on behalf of their customers. There are four distribution channels that make up the GDS, namely Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre and Worldspan. Despite generating billions of dollars in sales year on year, we’ve heard many hoteliers…
read moreHotelREZ, one of the world’s leading hotel representation, sales, marketing and distribution providers celebrates its 15th anniversary announcing a 33 per cent annual growth, some 23 per cent ahead of the GDS market, which is growing at seven per cent YOY in 2019. HotelREZ’s ability to outpace the market is a testament to its close…
read moreAs any successful accommodation provider will be able to tell you, your hotel’s website should be your most profitable channel, and should be seeing the highest amount of bookings. What better way to increase your website conversion rate than by ensuring you have the best booking engine on your site? By incorporating a booking engine…
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