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Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the beginning of each new year comes the urge to contemplate the past and make predictions about what lies ahead. In the technology and hospitality distribution categories, there is no shortage of potential disruptors to ponder. As we head into 2017, one top-of-mind issue has been pending for a while: the Book on Google […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn our last blog, Onyx CenterSource talked with Geert Behets, head of global travel, meetings and fleet management for the Belgium-based pharmaceuticals company UCB, about how his company selects hotels for its preferred provider program. This week, we get his views on relationships between corporate travel buyers, hotel suppliers and the service companies that help […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesMany hotel companies this year launched aggressive marketing campaigns offering special rates and other perks to travelers who book directly from their branded websites. Yet when it comes to business travel, it is still the employer who, in principle, decides which hotels employees can book. Most large corporations have established travel policies that require employees […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesMore and more business travelers are booking accommodation directly through Airbnb instead of hotel stays that generate commission for travel management companies. How can TMCs turn what looks like a threat into an opportunity? Why Airbnb is a challenge to TMCs … The sharing economy is the hottest story in the world of travel. Almost […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesA British hotel used its latest conference to show off the hotel trends of the future. Virgin Hotels has claimed that having access to free Wi-Fi everywhere in a hotel should be a basic right for guests, but as it gets ready to roll out this service in its new hotels in 2015, other brands […]