Hotelzon blog – Insights on business travel
Organic growth through key partnerships
21.05.2012 -
Mike Morley,
VP, UK
As a business, we all know a great way to boost sales is through organic growth, using existing customers and networks to branch out either into other departments of a customer or even new markets.
Over the last 18 months we have found that...
Hotelzon's project management team is ready to deliver
07.05.2012 -
Mats von Weissenberg,
Vice President, R&D & Global Projects
As Hotelzon focuses on providing the right technology for the travel industry, we are also strengthening and shaping our organization to deliver according to our promise. We want to shorten the implementation time while ensuring that expectations are met...
Key trends in online hotel booking
20.04.2012 -
Ville Valorinta,
Founder, Ecompter
In May 2001 I was in London at the office of a major global travel agency, surrounded by several of their executives. I was about to demonstrate a hotel booking with a mobile device to them and I was myself at least as excited as they were since that...
PCI DSS - What is PCI compliancy and what’s in it for you?
28.03.2012 -
Mats von Weissenberg,
Vice President, R&D & Global Projects
Not a month passes by when we would not hear about an information security incident resulting in compromised confidential or sensitive information. In today’s world we share information with more parties than we can remember and we have user...
Business in business travel
21.03.2012 -
Jani Kaskinen,
CEO
It has been a very hectic start to the year at Hotelzon, although that is not unusual. The company has changed, evolving into a technology provider for the travel industry from that of a traditional hotel booking agency business model. Change is always...
Corporate Hotel Booking – Why fragmented buying is a challenge
02.03.2012 -
Roni Huttunen,
VP, Nordics
Corporate travelers booking directly with the hotels or via leisure booking sites are often driven by a perception of making savings. There may even be an actual savings possibility for a single booking from time to time, but from a company...
Green is the new black
24.01.2012 -
Päivi Huuhtanen,
Head of Marketing and Communications
To be green or not to be. The latter option seems not to be valid anymore as people are getting more and more conscious of environmental values and they have an impact on their everyday decisions. It’s a trend also in business travel as companies...
Season ending
22.12.2011 -
Jani Kaskinen,
CEO
Once again, the year has passed with such speed that it is hard to believe that we are heading towards the Christmas festivities. 2011 has been full of changes and new beginnings, both professionally and personally. Hotelzon has now reached the point...
Hotelzon Online celebrates its first decade
15.12.2011 -
Anna Kalme,
Digital Marketing Coordinator
”It is an interesting new product which definitely meets an existing market need” is how a Travel Manager of a worldwide consulting company described Hotelzon Online after first piloting it about 10 years ago. Already back then, Hotelzon was...
Let’s get integrated!
07.12.2011 -
Mike Morley,
VP, UK
For the past 10 years Hotelzon has provided a state of the art Online Booking Tool to both corporate and agency customers, with multiple functional updates each year to accommodate our customers and the industry’s needs. The Hotelzon OBT (Online...
