Articles tagged “accor”

TripAdvisor has scaled up Instant Booking fairly rapidly. Google's addition of AccorHotels' brands shows that Google can do likewise.

The emergence of TripAdvisor as a viable booking site is a wake-up call to Expedia and the Priceline Group, who have been TripAdvisor's largest advertisers in recent years. It wouldn't be surprising to see them cut the spending spigot a bit.

Airbnb's capability for growth is much greater than any traditional hotel chain but it can also disappear faster than you can type "enforcement of municipal zoning and/or condo board rules."

There was a sense of camaraderie among the hotel industry leaders on the panel despite the intense competition for more heads in beds.

Booking.com might still be able to throw its commercial weight around with hotels despite these new agreements, depending on their fine print.

Accor realizes that digital services are a strategic imperative for its hotels and the hotel industry in general and the hotel group is doing all it can to bring those skills in-house.

It sometimes take an outsider to identify the mistakes of the past, challenges of the present and game plan for the future. Bazin succinctly describes his perspective on the industry and how he plans to take a multi-national, multi-brand corporation into the future.

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Global hotel groups are more aware of cultural nuances in new countries than ever before and Accor's ambitious efforts to create an entirely new experience based on location is one that others will quickly follow.