Articles tagged “intercontinental hotel group”

Hotels

InterContinental Hotels Seeks to Expand Traveler Appeal with Amadeus Technology Partnership

InterContinental Hotels is savvy to recognize that it needs to go beyond the low-hanging fruit of converting lookers into bookers, and needs to be involved in earlier and later phases of the guest journey. Amadeus has experience with some of these things on the airline side of things, but it remains to be seen how effective it will translate into hotels.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

Interview: Accor’s CMO on What Hotels Need to Learn From McDonald’s

In today's global world, it's not enough to simply transplant a brand concept in a new country and call it expansion. Brands need to find the balance between maintaining their core principles and adopting to local expectations that resonate with their targeted customers.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

How Much Is an Airbnb Listing Really Worth?

For a company with few physical assets, Airbnb demands a high value for its listings. But this value reveals more about how the lodging economy is evolving more than it tells us about what the sharing economy leader is really worth.

Jason Clampet, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

Booking Sites in the UK Just Got the OK to Offer Lower Room Rates Than Hotels

The UK's Office of Fair Trading has made the hotel industry a bit more competitive, but the new rules have their limits. Booking.com and Expedia aren't permitted to advertise discounted rooms to the general public, but will only do so for members of their loyalty programs and other closed groups. Still, it puts hotels at a disadvantage.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

UK Edges Closer To New Discounting Rules For Booking Sites and Hotels

The rules being discussed would apply to Europeans booking rooms in the UK, and the framework would be fairly narrow in scope. They do not address broader rate parity issues, but would indeed provide for more competition and would be good for limited numbers of travelers.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

Hotel Industry’s Quest to Go Local Is Reaching Slightly Absurd Proportions

Lets be a bit more real in the marketing of local in hospitality. And a little less lame.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

Health-Conscious Hotel Brand EVEN Launches Lifestyle News and Tips Site

This is a genius use of content marketing for the new hotel brand, which is providing useful information for its guests as well as creating a new source to attract new customers and raise brand awareness. Now it just needs to open one of the hotels.

Samantha Shankman, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

InterContinental Still Bullish on China Hotels After Officials Cut Travel Spend

The impact of a Chinese government clampdown on luxury travel spend isn't expected to impact IHG in the long term as it gears up to build up to 170 new hotels over an unspecified period of time.

Bonnie Cao, Bloomberg | 10 years ago

Business Travel

Concur Rebrands Booking Product Aimed at Rogue Business Travelers

Concur has faced intense pushback from the business travel establishment to its open booking initiative. Rebranding it as TripLink is a small bow to that opposition, but the essentials of the program remain the same.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Hotels

The Top 22 Hotel Brand Sites Around The World

Skift | 10 years ago