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FCM launches Marketplace travel content gateway

July 22, 2019 by PressEditor

FCM Travel Solutions  has created Marketplace, a virtual gateway to the travel management company’s extensive proprietary and specially-negotiated airfares, hotel rates, car rental, and rail booking options. The move underpins FCM’s approach to giving customers access to the widest choice of business travel content via multi-channel online and offline sources from across its global network.

A key driver within Marketplace is FCM’s team of over 500 global travel procurement specialists, one of the largest content teams in the travel industry. Each team member is responsible for a specific sector of supplier relations, from air and hotel to rail and ground transport and has at least 10 years’ experience in supplier negotiations. The team leverages FCM parent company Flight Centre Travel Group’s global stature, which includes US$11 billion air revenue and 5 million rail transactions, to ensure customers gain the best savings and tailored content for their travel program.

As a result of the team’s negotiation power, FCM clients have access to specialist fares from 420 airline partners, 112 global rail providers, and car hire deals in 97 countries. The expertise of FCM’s procurement team, combined with that of dedicated travel consultants managing individual booking requirements, results in an average saving of 12 percent on air tickets within FCM clients’ global travel programs. In terms of hotels, Marketplace offers 20 million room rates including 5M negotiated rates at 650,000 properties globally and 2.3M exclusive promotional room night rates at 60 hotel brands worldwide. This unrivaled range of travel content options is available to FCM customers via any of the travel management company’s booking channels including online booking tool Seeqa or offline via their dedicated travel consultant.

“Travel content is vast and covers a huge array of choice which can be confusing for the corporate customer,” explains Mick Heitzinger, Product Director, FCM EMEA “Travel buyers are frequently concerned about whether they are getting the best value, the widest choice of air content, hotel rates, and so on, in order to achieve cost-savings and ROI on their travel program. At FCM, we have recognized the need to deliver all types of travel content from multiple sources in a way that the corporate wants to see it and consume it, whether manager, traveler or booker.

“At the same time, the distribution landscape is becoming increasingly fragmented as new entrants have disrupted the market and online travel agents have added confusion. This has added complexity and cost to corporates,” continued Heitzinger. “Travel managers and procurement directors want to ensure that they have the best fare or rate. They want price parity across channels. They want choice for their travelers and be safe in the knowledge that they can capture data from all bookings made outside of corporate channels in order to satisfy the duty of care. Ultimately, they want content in one place.

“Not only does Marketplace give our customers access to FCM’s exclusive and vast range of global content all in one place, but it also embraces disrupters and new entrants to the distribution landscape to ensure our customers have full availability and visibility. Our core purpose with Marketplace is to provide our customers with the widest travel content in a way that no other TMC can so that they benefit from unparalleled choice and savings,” said Heitzinger.

Source: www.fcmtravel.com

Media Contact: vanessa.aves@flightcentre.co.uk

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UNIGLOBE Travel recognizes top professionals and agencies worldwide

June 4, 2019 by PressEditor

UNIGLOBE Travel International has announced the 2019 recipients of its performance and service awards. Winners were announced at the organization’s Global Rendezvous in Vienna, Austria to an audience of travel management companies (TMCs) from 25+ countries.

UNIGLOBE founder and chairman U. Gary Charlwood and president and chief operating officer Martin Charlwood presented the awards. Says Martin Charlwood, “UNIGLOBE is a family company, and the spirit of family defines our approach to customer service, supplier relationships and international operations. We congratulate all winners and thank them for their commitment to UNIGLOBE and our clients worldwide.”

The most prestigious award, TMC of the Year, was shared by UNIGLOBE Alliance Travel of the Netherlands and UNIGLOBE Travel Partners – NJ of New Jersey, USA.

Awards recognizing individual or team service and performance excellence went to UNIGLOBE Sportscorp Travel from Canada and UNIGLOBE Swire Travel, Philippines.

The John L. Henry, Whatever It Takes Award, went to Laura Koreman, UNIGLOBE Travel Holland and Andrew Burroughes, UNIGLOBE Preferred Travel, United Kingdom.  “John had a unique gift for bringing people together, showed great integrity and went above and beyond for UNIGLOBE and this industry,” says U. Gary Charlwood.

About UNIGLOBE

Working globally to serve clients locally across more than 60 countries, UNIGLOBE Travel leverages current technologies and preferred supplier pricing to save clients time and money on business and vacation travel planning. Since 1981, corporate and leisure travelers have depended on the UNIGLOBE Travel brand to deliver services that go beyond expectations. UNIGLOBE Travel was founded by U. Gary Charlwood, CEO and has its world headquarters in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.  Annual system-wide sales volume is $5.0+ billion.

Media contact: media@uniglobe.com

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Brexit has not deterred business travelers in the UK

April 17, 2019 by Forimmediaterelease

UK’s 2018 Hotels Market Report shows that the UK regional capitals are performing strongly with overall room nights booked growing by 8% across the top 250 UK cities.

London continues to be business travelers’ favorite capital for work trips with 663,000 room nights booked in 2018, an increase of 5% when compared to 2017. But Edinburgh experienced the highest level of growth in 2018 with room nights booked increasing by 16%, Belfast was up 13% and Cardiff up 5%.

The 2018 Hotels Market Report analyses data from corporate hotel bookings made between January and December 2018 by Advantage’s TMC members, who represent around 40% of the UK business travel sector, highlighting business travel trends and booking behaviour.

The report also shows significant growth for cities in the Midlands and North East, with Derby seeing the highest growth with 31% more booked room nights compared to 2017, while York, Nottingham and Gateshead also saw double-digit percentage increases.

Top Ten UK Cities – Booked Room Night Percentage Increase (year-on-year), January – December 2018

1. Derby – 31%
2. York – 22%
3. Plymouth – 21%
4. Inverness – 20%
5. Nottingham – 18%
6. Edinburgh – 16%
7. Reading – 15%
8. Belfast – 13%
9. Norwich – 11%
10. Gateshead – 10%

Global Results

The business world continues to travel widely, with the 2018 Hotels Report recording that hotel demand remains strong in many international cities with New York, Auckland, Wellington, Houston, Paris and Sydney topping the Advantage Top Cities list. In total, worldwide volume grew by over 393,000 room nights, a total increase of 8.74% compared to 2017, indicating that SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) corporate accounts, in which Advantage TMCs specialise, continue to perform strongly.

The total number of bookings made by Advantage business travel members in 2018 saw similar growth – up 8.76% – while the average length of stay remained constant, at 1.87 nights. Increased demand and higher occupancy globally meant hotel rates have increased by US$2 to an average daily rate (ADR) of US$169.41.

The report also looks at trends on bookings and ADR for cities and locations around the world, with New York once again topping the list as the highest volume worldwide city outside the UK, with 90,799 room nights booked at an average rate of US$395.97 per night. Increases were also seen in Bangalore (up 54%), Kuala Lumpur (up 36%) and Boston (up 27%).

The corporate hotel sector continues to grow, with another significant increase in bookings year-on-year, made by independent TMCs. Despite continued uncertainty in both the global and UK economies including Brexit, hotel room night demand is at record levels in many destinations. Although not all destinations in Britain saw an increase in room nights booked, ADR remained strong.

The report is representative of hotel bookings made across most of the major international and independent hotel groups including: Accor, Apex Hotels, Choice Hotels, Citadines, Clayton Hotels, Design Hotels, The Doyle Collection, Edwardian Hotels, glh Hotels, Hallmark Hotels, Hilton, HotelREZ, Hyatt, House of Daniel Thwaites, IHG, Jurys Inn & Leonardo Hotels, Loews Hotels, Macdonald Hotels, Maldron Hotels, Melia Hotels International, Millennium Hotels & Resorts, The Montcalm Hotels, NH Hotels, O’Callaghan Collection, Omni, Park Plaza, Pegasus, QHotels, Quest, Rotana, Radisson Hotel Group, Sabre Hospitality, Small Luxury Hotels, TravelClick, Travelodge, Village Hotels Club, WorldHotels Collection and Wyndham Hotel Group.

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