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We’re already the largest bedbank in the world, giving you access to 180,000 hotel properties across the globe but guess what, we’ve just super-sized our portfolio giving you even more possibilities to choose from!

As we prepare for travel to resume safely, we’ve just added more than 156,000 more hotels across 4,850 destinations giving you greater choice of properties – and don’t forget, that’s alongside a huge range of activities and transfers you can add too!


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Our portfolio just got super-sized!

We’re delighted to announce a brand new, year long partnership with PROMTUR Panama aimed at raising awareness of the beauty and diversity of the destination to travellers from the US, Canada, Europe, China and LATAM.

The exciting co-op campaign is designed to put Panama high on people’s wish lists for when safe travel resumes and will target Hotelbeds’ high value, hard to access portfolio of 60,000 travel trade buyers – including retail travel agencies, tour operators, airlines and points redemption programmes.

Hotelbeds already has a strong presence in Panama, producing over 100,000 incoming pax into the destination from 80 different source markets, and partnering with more than 130 hotels and activities. We strongly believes that Panama has enormous potential to grow and become one of the top producing destinations within our LATAM portfolio.

The promotion will be focused through Hotelbeds main distribution channels of Bedsonline (our brand targeting retail travel agencies) and Hotelbeds, for wholesale distribution. The campaign will aim to place Panama on the radar of more than 60,000 travel trade buyers.

To take a closer look at the campaign, please click on the links below:


	For the USA campaign, click here
	For the LATAM campaign, click here
	For the global campaign, click here


Gareth Matthews, Global Marketing &amp; Communications Director at Hotelbeds, commented: “We are really pleased to enter into this partnership with PROMTUR Panama. With the demand we continue to see for Latin American destinations, we believe Panama delivers all the qualities that international leisure travellers are looking for – a modern international city, amazing beaches, unique cuisine and culture and of course eco-tourism offerings that are truly breath-taking! We are excited to grow our partnership with Panama for many years to come.”

Woodrow Oldford, Chief Marketing Officer of PROMTUR Panama (Panama's Destination Marketing Organization) said; “Panama is pleased to begin a long-term partnership with Hotelbeds. The launch of our alliance with Hotelbeds is a strategic move for us in kick-starting tourism in Panama. We see the value of partnering with industry leaders to reach and educate others in the travel industry. There is a pent-up demand for travel, and we believe Hotelbeds will be a key part of tapping into the demand and ensuring our future success.”


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Hotelbeds enters exciting new partnership with PROMTUR Panama!

We’ve just entered into a new partnership with tech giant, Google Cloud, that’s already resulting in a reduction in response times by up to 7% and an increase in conversion rates for our API clients.

What’s more, these clients – our tour operators, retail travel agent chains, airlines and point redemption schemes - are also benefiting from increased flexibility, uptime and reliability due to the platform’s auto-scaling architecture.

In addition, there’s also benefits for the 180,000 hotel properties that make up our portfolio as their product will now be made available to travel trade buyers more quickly and reliably than ever before, thus increasing incremental bookings from non-domestic and high-value guests -the typical guest profile our distribution channels attract.

Simon Matthews, CTO at Hotelbeds, said: “An ever faster response time is one of the most important metrics for our API partners – and indirectly for our hotel and ancillary supplier partners who benefit too – and we achieve this with reliable partners like Google Cloud, who offer us security, scalability and reliability on a global scale.

“Like many other travel tech companies our conversion to the cloud started with an initial technical push with a single cloud provider tightly coupled – and deliberately so – with our legacy on-premise infrastructure. We are now able to deploy our workloads at an incredibly efficient speed on Google Cloud, deploying infrastructure as code and platform as a service – and thereby helping fuel the recovery of our partners everywhere.”

Isaac Hernández, Country Manager at Google Cloud Spain and Portugal, added: "We are very excited to announce our partnership with one of the leading travel technology companies at this key moment when it’s imperative to help the industry recover from the impact of COVID-19. Just as managing bookings has become more operationally complex given the current situation, we are able to offer Hotelbeds and its partners a rapidly scalable solution that reduces costs and helps increase revenues by reducing that all important response time.”


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Google Cloud partnership helps fuel recovery by reducing response times and increasing sales conversions for API clients

We’re super thrilled to announce a new, preferred partnership deal with House of Travel, the largest privately owned travel company in New Zealand and the third largest travel organisation in the Asia Pacific region.

This new enhanced partnership will give us – and the 180,000 hotel properties we work with worldwide - a prominent position on House of Travel’s booking platform, Splash, enabling us to increase our distribution reach in New Zealand, through House of Travel’s 75 retail travel stores in the region.

In addition, House of Travel will also be able to offer its clients ancillary services from Beyond The Bed, our portfolio made up of 25,000 transfer routes, 18,000 activities in more than 680 destinations, and 30,000 pick-up locations in 170 countries.

House of Travel joins our existing portfolio of 60,000 travel trade buyers, who typically attract non-domestic travellers that book higher value properties further in advance, stay for longer, have lower cancellation rates and spend more at the property.

León Herce, Global Sales Director at Hotelbeds, said: “We are very excited to announce our preferred partnership with House of Travel, the largest privately owned travel company in New Zealand.

“By extending our reach across the 75 member agency network of House of Travel in New Zealand, and our preferred partner position on its retail booking platform 'Splash' we are extremely well equipped to take advantage of the pent up demand we know will be significant once international borders are open again. At the same time, our 180,000 hotels worldwide will benefit from this agreement by expanding their distribution reach in the important Pacific outbound market.”

Dave Fordyce, Product and Channel Director at House of Travel, added: “We are pleased to cement our partnership with Hotelbeds and strengthen the relationship in preparation for a travel resurgence. As House of Travel’s customer centric focus requires having access to a broad range of deals and hotels, we believe that Hotelbeds will continue to deliver and complement our expected demand in 2021 and beyond.”


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Hotelbeds signs preferred partnership with House of Travel to increase distribution reach in the Pacific

As part of our commitment to boosting the recovery, we’ve just launched an exciting package of deals as part of our New Year Sales event!

We have lined up all sorts of flexible deals with discounts of up to 30% for travel throughout 2021 so what are you waiting for?

If you’re a web client, offers will be highlighted on our booking engine with the 'New Year Sales' label. Use the 'New Year Sales' filter on the left-hand side of our booking engine to quickly find the offers.

For API clients, your rates will be shown under the promotion code 515.

Click link below for your region’s landing page NOW and get the boost you need for 2021.


	
		
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If you’re in any doubt, don’t be shy! Get in touch with your Hotelbeds Account Manager who can help with answers to more any technical questions!

And don’t forget, with our flyer generator and the recommendations provided by our data-intelligence, you can easily share promotional materials with all your clients!


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Kick start 2021 and take advantage of our New Year sales!

As we continue to work hard to fuel the recovery of the industry and strengthen opportunities for business growth, we’re pleased to announce the extension of our six-year partnership with HotelRunner, a sales channel management platform and B2B network for OTAs and hoteliers.

This positive news means that once long-haul travel recovers, Hotelbeds’ travel trade buyers will provide the accommodation partners of HotelRunner with high value, incremental reservations from non-domestic markets. HotelRunner will also continue to provide Hotelbeds’ travel distribution clients with access to significant additional hotel partners globally, with wider coverage in the United States, LATAM, Africa and South East Asia

Paul Anthony, Digital Commercialisation Director at Hotelbeds, said: “As part of this extended partnership with HotelRunner, there is a very strong opportunity for Hotelbeds to not only acquire new hotels, especially in the long tail space, but also to grow the inventory managed through those hotels by maximising the rate-mix, competitiveness and availability.

“We are working hard together to build shared capabilities to help identify, process and convert opportunities through automated processes, self-service solutions and leveraging data. This will help ensure that together we are effectively positioned for the recovery of international travel.”&nbsp;

Arden Agopyan, Founder &amp; Managing Partner from HotelRunner, added: "Our six-year long and continuously growing relationship has been very productive, and we are now ready to take this to a more strategic level.

“When the recovery in international travel occurs, our 40,000+ accommodation partners from all over the world will want to capitalize on that by accessing hard-to-reach bookings from all channels including the offline channels such as tour operators, travel agents, airlines and points redemption schemes – of which Hotelbeds has over 60,000 such partners around the world.”&nbsp;

“Through its powerful and easy-to-use suite of tools, HotelRunner gives all properties, regardless of size, access to the best hospitality management technology. This means hoteliers and hosts can grow reservations and automate their workflows with confidence and ease.”

HotelRunner has offices in the United States, United Kingdom and Turkey, and has properties in 193 countries ranging from daily short-term rentals to B&amp;Bs, boutique hotels and enterprise hotels and chains.


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Hotelbeds extends its partnership with HotelRunner

Coming hot on the heels of our Green Hotels Programme launch, which identifies, highlights and promotes sustainable accommodation within our hotel portfolio, we are pleased to announce our certification as a carbon neutral company for the third year in a row, another ‘plus’ in our ambition to fuel the recovery by doing all that we can to show we are a responsible, ethical business.

Certified through analysis of our carbon footprint by the independent body, Carbon Footprint Ltd, the accreditation demonstrates our commitment over the past three years to reduce our environmental impact and ensure long-term sustainability by offsetting the carbon emissions we generate.

But how have we done it?&nbsp;

During 2018, we created a programme where a fee was paid for every business flight taken by an employee. &nbsp;The money generated was then used to finance a carbon neutral project, helping to encourage reduction in travel and increase awareness around the importance of carbon offsetting.

The funds raised from this programme were also donated to the Portel-Pará Deforestation Project, located in the Brazilian Amazon, home to the largest remaining rainforest on our planet, to help prevent unplanned deforestation.

In 2019, Hotelbeds chose to give the funds to the Renewable Energy Project in India which manages the installation of solar panels across the country.

And this year, Hotelbeds will be supporting the Verified Carbon Standard certified Guohua Tongliao Kezuo Zhongqi Phase 1 Wind Power project in China, which aims to reduce carbon emissions through the displacement of fossil fuels. This project will also help to combat climate change and protect our environment for future generations.

Gareth Matthews, Marketing, Communications and CSR Director at Hotelbeds, said: “We are proud to be certified a Carbon Neutral organisation for the third consecutive year. This really underscores our sustainable business ethos and sets a great example both to our staff and the wider travel industry.

“As leaders in the travel industry we want to be at the forefront of environmental consciousness, inspiring both other companies and even individual travellers by reducing our emissions where possible and off-setting the rest.”

As part of the certification process, carbon emission calculations – including energy and paper consumptions, waste management, business travel and water supply – were conducted by Hotelbeds, using metrics devised by Carbon Footprint Ltd.

Carbon Footprint Ltd has also successfully completed a verification of the carbon footprint assessment for Hotelbeds. This included spot-checking source data from across the company as well as reviewing the overall methodology.


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Hotelbeds certified as carbon neutral for the third year running

The full-year findings (broken down by weeks) from our joint research project with Skift have been released.

Back in June, we entered the Skift Recovery Index (SRI) collaboration project to better understand the impact COVID has had across the globe while helping to map out a recovery process.&nbsp;

The SRI is a real-time measure of where the travel industry stands in recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and provides us all with a powerful tool for strategic planning in this currently volatile business climate.

This latest report looks back on December and highlights Russia, the US and India's resurgence in travel over this period. It also shows that while the industry as a whole experienced a downturn, vacation rentals seemed to be the highlight of 2020.&nbsp;

Lastly, the Skift report predicts the industry's long-term forecast, identifying when we are most likely to return to 2019 travelling numbers. &nbsp;Click here to download and read the special 2020 report.


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2020 in review: The full-year report from our research collaboration with Skift is published

Recently we have entered into an agreement with Rappi, Latin America’s first ‘superApp’.

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Rappi already has millions of users and the company recently launched its ‘Rappi Travel’ vertical, taking a big step towards consolidation as the most relevant application in Latin America.

As a result of our partnership, the 180,000 hotel properties working with Hotelbeds will now be available to millions of Rappi Travel users in Latin America. This includes in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, plus corporate travellers from its brand Travel 4Business – with users from Argentina, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Ecuador and Costa Rica gaining access in 2021.

Thanks to this collaboration, Rappi’s clients in Latin America gain access to Hotelbeds’ extensive portfolio in 140 countries worldwide. This means access to exclusive rates and conditions from the best hotel properties globally thanks to Hotelbeds’ best-in-class contracting team worldwide.

Announcing the news, León Herce, Global Sales Director at Hotelbeds, said: "This agreement with Rappi is an important step in further strengthening our strategic position in Latin America via access to millions of users in the region.

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“Rappi is the first ’superApp’ in Latin America and as such is the perfect partner, fitting very well with our model of working with sales channels that provide access to guests that would otherwise be very hard for hotels to reach directly. 

“At the same time, our 180,000 hotels worldwide benefit from this agreement by expanding their distribution reach in the important Latin American outbound market.”

Whilst Guido Becher, Global Head of Rappi Travel, added: "We are pleased to gain access to Hotelbeds' extensive product portfolio worldwide. Our users in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, plus corporate travellers, are looking for a great variety of product and Hotelbeds’ portfolio and exclusive offers are a great match for their needs.

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“With the first signs of recovery in the market beginning to emerge it is even more essential to have access to the best available tools such as Hotelbeds’ APItude, which for us is the fastest and lightest hotel distribution API in the market. The whole integration process has been easy, fast and intuitive – allowing us to integrate Hotelbeds’ product portfolio easily.”


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Hotelbeds increases presence in Latin America

This year we launched SelfSeT’, a self-service toolkit to help clients resolve their most common queries in the fastest and most convenient way possible.&nbsp;

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As part of this initiative in the summer time we launched a Livechat feature and a chatbot called Bedsy. Hopefully you are using those already? 

By automatically responding to clients’ queries Bedsy is able to save valuable time for clients and maximise the efficiency of Hotelbeds’ Contact Centres. Equally Livechat means our Contact Centre agents are instantly accessible to our clients and thus can handle customers’ enquiries quicker.

More recently we have introduced new functionalities that allow you to modify bookings easily. This includes to:

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	Add nights or remove nights
	Change passenger names
	Send a special request to the hotel
	And even modify an open booking where some, but not all, of the services have yet been consumed. 


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To learn more about how SelfSeT can help your business contact your Hotelbeds account manager today! 


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Are you saving time with our enhanced booking modification tools?

We very pleased to confirm that recently we entered into a strategic partnership with&nbsp;Rosewood Hotel Group.

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As part of the deal Rosewood gains access to our 60,000+ travel trade buyers from more than 140 source markets worldwide, including tour operators, airlines, points redemption programs and retail travel agencies.

Meanwhile our clients gain access to preferential rates and availability across the 41 properties that form Rosewood’s portfolio in 19 countries, including in t North America, the Caribbean/Atlantic, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Rosewood is made up of three brands: the ultra-luxury Rosewood Hotels &amp; Resorts® in North America, Caribbean/Atlantic, Europe, the Middle East and Asia; the upper-upscale New World Hotels &amp; Resorts® in China and Southeast Asia; and KHOS™, a dynamic global business lifestyle hotel brand.

Our portfolio of 60,000+ travel trade buyers offers Rosewood access to incremental, high value bookings from non-domestic markets that typically book further in advance, pay more per room, stay for longer, cancel less and spend more in the destination.

Rosewood will distribute hotel rooms through both the Hotelbeds brand and our retail travel agent channel, which operates under the Bedsonline brand – all united under one contract.

Talking about the news, Jorge Cortés, Global Sourcing Director at Hotelbeds, commented: “Rosewood Hotel Group has become a leading international luxury hotel and resort owner-operator globally thanks to its ambitious expansion and growing presence in the global luxury hospitality arena. 

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“So I am certain that our 60,000 travel trade clients – all of whom will offer Rosewood mostly international, high value guests – will be very excited to gain access to special rates and availability from across Rosewood’s portfolio.”

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Whilst Benjamin Banh, Vice President Field Sales and Marketing, added: “Rosewood Hotel Group’s strategic partnership with Hotelbeds gives us access to an extensive travel trade distribution network worldwide, expanding our reach to more non-domestic and high-value guests once international travel recovers. 

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“This complements well our efforts to build on Rosewood’s strong base of long-stay and corporate guests, and to capture accommodation demand from domestic travellers. We continue on a steady path of growth in the world’s most evocative destinations, and we look forward to working with Hotelbeds to grow incremental bookings.”


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Hotelbeds and Rosewood Hotel Group sign strategic partnership 

Recently we announced a new strategic agreement with Magnuson Hotels, the fast growing global franchise alternative brand.

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This agreement provides Magnuson with access to our high-value distribution network of more than 60,000 travel trade buyers including tour operators, retail travel agents, airlines and loyalty programs across more than 140 source markets worldwide.

Meanwhile our portfolio of travel buyers offers Magnuson – when the full recovery begins – incremental, high value bookings from non-domestic markets that typically book further in advance, pay more per room, cancel less and spend more at the property.

What does this mean for our clients? Access to preferential rates and availability from across Magnuson Hotels' portfolio including the Magnuson Grand, Magnuson Hotel, M Star Hotel, and an exclusive By Magnuson Worldwide collection brands.

Magnuson will distribute its hotel rooms through both our main channels: wholesale distribution under the 'Hotelbeds' brand and the retail channel, Bedsonline, that exclusively caters to retail travel agents.

Talking about the news, Mark Redmond, Head of Global Chains at Hotelbeds,&nbsp;commented: “We are delighted to partner with one of the biggest independent global chains in the world. With the travel restrictions easing off and the focus now shifting to 2021 bookings, our portfolio of 60,000 travel trade buying partners will allow Magnuson to access more non-domestic, high-value guests from across the world at profitable margins and focus on doing what they do best: providing guests with great value.”

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Whilst Thomas Magnuson, CEO at Magnuson Hotels,&nbsp;added:&nbsp;“Through the alliance with Hotelbeds we have access to a leading and strategically important B2B distribution network, including both wholesale and the equally important retail distribution worldwide through Bedsonline. While Magnuson has become a dominant force in serving non-leisure business segments, we look forward to working with Hotelbeds to grow our overall bookings even further via high-value reservations from non-domestic guests once international travel demand picks back up again.”

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To find out more information speak with your usual Hotelbeds contact today. 


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