Hotel Distribution

HotelREZ partners with iWTX/Illusions

HotelREZ partners with iWTX/Illusions 1000 490 HotelREZ

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…

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Corus Hotels and Laura Ashley Hotels has selected HotelREZ

Corus Hotels and Laura Ashley Hotels has selected HotelREZ 860 577 HotelREZ

November 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)…

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How rising OTA and Google ad costs are changing hotel distribution strategies in 2020

How rising OTA and Google ad costs are changing hotel distribution strategies in 2020 1880 1250 HotelREZ

Currently, 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…

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How to reduce your distribution costs by attracting more direct and GDS business

How to reduce your distribution costs by attracting more direct and GDS business 842 510 HotelREZ

More 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…

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What OTA commission rates are costing your hotel – and how to reduce them

What OTA commission rates are costing your hotel – and how to reduce them 842 510 HotelREZ

OTAs, 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…

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Why the GDS system is still as important as ever for hotels

Why the GDS system is still as important as ever for hotels 842 510 HotelREZ

The 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…

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Celebrating its 15th anniversary, HotelREZ continues to outperform the market

Celebrating its 15th anniversary, HotelREZ continues to outperform the market 1564 1126 HotelREZ

HotelREZ, 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…

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How to choose the best booking engine in the marketplace

How to choose the best booking engine in the marketplace 1592 984 HotelREZ

As 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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Exclusive Hotels and Venues selects HotelREZ as new distribution partner

Exclusive Hotels and Venues selects HotelREZ as new distribution partner 600 399 HotelREZ
HotelREZ, one of the world’s largest hotel representation companies has been chosen by Exclusive Hotels and Events as its preferred distribution partner. HotelREZ will represent the luxury hotel group under its widely recognised HO chain code on the Global Distribution System (GDS). HotelREZ will optimise Exclusive Hotels and Events’ distribution through implementation of its tailor [...]read more

HEATHROW’S FUNKY NEW KID ON THE BLOCK – ATRIUM HEATHROW HOTEL – APPOINTS HOTELREZ AS GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION PARTNER

HEATHROW’S FUNKY NEW KID ON THE BLOCK – ATRIUM HEATHROW HOTEL – APPOINTS HOTELREZ AS GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION PARTNER 600 302 HotelREZ
One of Heathrow’s newest, design-led hotels, Atrium Hotel Heathrow, enters the highly competitive Heathrow hotel market with HotelREZ at its side. Atrium Hotel Heathrow has selected HotelREZ as its global sales and distribution partner targeting growth from leisure and business travellers to Heathrow. HotelREZ will provide full GDS services for Heathrow’s largest independent hotel, which [...]read more