Hotelzon blog – Insights on business travel
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...
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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...
Connected?
16.11.2011 -
Roni Huttunen,
VP, Nordics
In a hotel, a comfortable bed and a clean bathroom are and have always been the two most important things for the frequent business traveler. Since the mid nineties there has been a third must – efficient and hazzle-free connectivity to the...
Busted!
09.11.2011 -
Päivi Huuhtanen,
Head of Marketing and Communications
I don’t want to be a tattler but I am. I spoke with a Sales Director for a global retailer recently and wanted to express my concern regarding his behavior to their Travel Manager. He told me that yet they have a travel policy to ensure consolidated...
Working Parents – Hotelzon can help!
01.11.2011 -
Nicki Kinally,
Head of Human Resources
At the end of 2010 – 29% of mothers work full time, 37% part time according to the Office of National Statistics.
Among fathers of under-fives, 21% are solely responsible for childcare at some point during the working week (Equality & Human...
What is a saving?
19.10.2011 -
Mike Morley,
VP, UK
When demonstrating or showing off the Hotelzon booking tool, I’m often asked “does it show savings?” This is normally followed with the same response each time from me “what do you mean?"
Not because I didn’t...
Purchasing power by capturing and controlling volumes
12.10.2011 -
Roni Huttunen,
VP, Nordics
This is the time of year when many Travel Managers and Indirect Sourcing professionals are busy negotiating hotel programs, car rental agreements and airline agreements. Even though some companies have chosen to distribute the workload throughout the year...
What is a non-GDS hotel really?
04.10.2011 -
Sten Carler,
VP, Business Development, Scandinavia
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...
