It’s now 397 days to go before the 2012 London Olympics commence and it seems the media are determined to shock us over with the outrageous news that, duh, hotels are pricing themselves for the market conditions and hotel rates are skyrocketing. And there’s the clue – market conditions: was there ever a law against pricing a product according to what people are prepared to pay? Look at footballers: we all shake ou
London Olympics, hotel rates – what’s that all about?
October 17, 2011 By
How big is your hotel inventory?
October 15, 2011 By
Over the last couple of years most of the hotel distribution systems/suppliers have made a point in boasting about how many hotels they have within their databases and point of sale booking tools. And I have to admit, Hotelzon is one of them! – By the way we have 140,000 hotels.
But what does it all mean? Why would one company boast about having a global hotel inventory as low as 35,000 hotels (or even 140,000 hotels!!) when there are companies saying that they have over 200,000.
Welcome to Hotelzon’s blog – Insights on the travel and hotel industry
October 11, 2011 By
We will be using this blog to share our insights on the hotel industry, our opinions on the business travel sector and provide interesting stories and personal experiences.
To be able to give different viewpoints on our blog, there will be posts from various members of Hotelzon including the CEO Jani Kaskinen and guest bloggers from other areas of the travel and hospitality industry.
We very much welcome your comments and suggestions!
What is a non-GDS hotel really?
October 4, 2011 By
I did a presentation of Hotelzon to a prospect the other day. One of the questions they had was: what is a non-GDS hotel actually? It is a good question especially since we talk about our non-GDS hotel content when we present Hotelzon. It is simply a hotel that you cannot book in the GDS systems.
Sales & marketing or operations, where to invest your time when you run a hotel?
August 17, 2011 By
When talking to hoteliers you often get the com
ment “You cannot imagine how busy I am running this hotel making my customers happy and now you want me to evaluate another sales opportunity”. I have worked in the operations' side of hotel business for over 10 years. I started as a receptionist and worked my way up to general management.
