Hyatt Enters Business Travel Management Battleground


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In a somewhat bizarre twist, even hotel chains are beginning to provide travel management tools to small businesses. This further underscores how much some growing businesses don't really want to deal with a travel management company at all.
A few interesting wrinkles in the corporate travel world this week show where the sector is going. Hyatt Hotels announced a program for small businesses to receive discounts at some Hyatt properties, along with basic travel management tools to track spending and traveler whereabouts. Hyatt's smaller scale means it can try out new initiatives, but who knows how this one will work out? If they can add services and meeting spaces to the platform, though, this could be a big deal for small businesses. We also have a story from Skift Tourism Reporter Dan Peltier on how Florida, as a destination, is going to work to tap into bleisure travel to increase its tou