Customers were able to feel special, cared-for and cooler than those frumpy tourists and business drones at the hotel chains.
Since the hotel chains can sell more hotel stays themselves and rely less on OTAs to fill up spare inventory, fewer hotel nights are available for bookings through online travel agencies.
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The rise and rise of boutique hotels has not gone unnoticed by the major hotel chains.
Recently, this trend has spread to the major hotel chains as well.
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While we do not expect travel agents (both online and the traditional ones) to directly cut margins on account of sales tax, the travel suppliers (hotel chains, airlines etc) could feel the pricing pressure with declining occupancy levels.
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The Black Sea resort city of Sochi will host the Winter Olympic Games and the reinstated Russian Grand Prix in 2014, and Russia will host the FIFA World Cup in 2018, with many hotel chains around the country investing in anticipation.
It can be found everywhere in the corporate world, from credit-card companies to hotel chains to the retail trade.
The move by some luxury hotel chains in greater China to ban shark fin soup ahead of the Lunar New Year was symbolic of a new day and part of a worldwide push.
Look at the ways the more innovative mid-price hotel chains are constantly trying to create differentiators that make them the most appealing choice in a world where the competition is often just a few hundred yards away.
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After the booking, Room 77, which has partnerships with a number of hotel chains, will email the customer to inform them of the type of room they received.
For those firms with fewer entry-level jobs than hotel chains, the chances of much help for tougher welfare cases are slim.
Most hotel chains in the US and around the world have not implemented broad initiatives and instead leave newspaper delivery up to individual hotels.
When decent profits were being made in one part of a corporate empire, say, just as an example, Latin American telephone systems, then those profits were used internally to fund the purchase of North American hotel chains.
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All of these hotel chains hope that the provision of free access will boost loyalty and occupancy, by encouraging customers to choose the same hotel or chain again.
Once a company's product or service becomes commoditized--often the case with big banks, hotel chains and cruise lines--why not take consumers' minds off those annoying product details and grab their attention with some forceful life advice?
Charles Ledsinger chuckles when he remembers his days at one of the hotel industry's most tightly controlled chains.
Big hotel groups are most able to flex their muscles this way, especially in America where the majority of hotel rooms are booked via chains.
Two of the world's best boutique luxury hotel chains, Aman Resorts and Como Resorts, have multiple lodges here set up for logistically easy - and decadent - explorations of Bhutan.
These reward points are in addition to those offered by the loyalty programs run by airlines, hotel chains and credit card companies, and can be redeemed for discounts on subsequent future bookings on Expedia.
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The online travel industry continues to face increasing competition from airlines and large hotel chains offering bookings directly at their websites leading to online travel agencies removing the booking fees to match the prices quoted by the suppliers themselves.
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In America, where the market is most developed, most large hotel chains began wiring up their rooms several years ago.
Mr Cohen of Accor thinks that some hotel chains will actually grow during the recession, if only because there is bound to be further consolidation.
Their loyalty programs give the business travelers a shot at free nights in fancier hotel chains that those companies operate, so they'll be hard for Cambria to displace.
As a result, big hotel chains like Holiday Inn or Marriott are radically redesigning the lobby space, making it more conducive to vocational as well as social activities.
The company employs around 2, 000 workers and has won lucrative contracts to clean rooms at many popular hotel chains.
Accor found that its luxury hotel brand, Sofitel, was hit hard by the recession, but its more down-to-earth chains (such as Ibis and Red Roof Inns, which rely heavily on domestic car-bound travellers) counterbalanced that effect.
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