Criteria to choose a 3rd party site

Group work: Navine Chhuon and Olga Smuniova http://smuniova.blogspot.com/

For a luxurious hotel we would choose (for example Le Murano) http://www.travel-selection.fr/ Because:

• There are 6 languages available
• Micro site of the Splendia site http://www.splendia.com/pagefiltre.php?searchlist_id=253&critereSearch=Country&arrivee=&depart=
• They propose luxurious service
• Good image for our hotel
• Prices are updated daily by the hotels we work with. We benefit from rates aligned with those of their competitors
• Easy to reach because they appear on the first page of "hotels Paris" on Google
• Good presentation of the website
• Many hotels of our range

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Hospitality Design Group Expands Magazine to Asia Pacific & Middle East

http://smuniova.blogspot.com/

Olga describes perfectly the needs from the market of the launching a new magazine 'Hospitality Design – Asia Pacific & Middle East'. It can also be a good source of information for all the people working in the hospitality industry. They can be aware of new trends and events.

Weekly posting March 30th

Kempinski to manage luxury trains

http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/154000320/4030774.html

This article deals with the cooperation with the Kempinski group and the Tangula luxury train company. It reveals that this train company will totally be under the management of the Kempinski group which is a luxurious German hotel chain.

It is a very good strategy for this train company to be managed by a luxurious hotel group to gain notoriety and give good quality of services. It can be a good asset to this train company to compete with the famous Orient Express train which does not offer these journeys.

Buzz+viral+mobile

Buzz and viral marketing can be used on hotels: 1) on youtube by creating a video to describe the hotel 2) screen savers and font screens on computers and on mobile phones 3) send MMS with the city's most important events, restaurants, 4) service by SMS and MMS from the hotel: the guest sends messages to an appropriate service to know an itinary or a restaurant or other information and gets a precise answer from the hotel.

3rd Party Sites

Group work: Navine Chhuon and Olga Smuniova

http://smuniova.blogspot.com/

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The prices are low for both but BRG offers more alternatives for guests for example gift vouchers or pays the difference under the condition that the bookings are related to competitive third party sites: www.expedia.com, www.hotels.com, www.orbitz.com, www.travelocity.com, www.lodging.com, and www.travelweb.com (“Non-Opaque ADS Channels”).

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Clemence Auley

http://la-mere-clemence.blogspot.com/

This article Clemence delt with is about a new hotel in the Maldives island. She describes the positive and negative aspects which is very good but she should also talk about the competition, the date of creation...she should be more precise on the information about the hotel and not the destination.

weekly posting for March 15th

World Travel & Tourism Climbs to US$ 7 Trillion in 2007 WTTC Reports

http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/154000320/4030642.html

This article shows us performances forecasts for the world's travel and tourism industry. This year shows a growth which is a very good progress for this industry which suffered a lot due to all health, politics and environmental problems. These forecasts also show that the next year is going to be a promising one. This does not only have an effect on the tourism industry but also on the cultural, social and environmental aspect. Actually it can also be very healthy for the hospitality industry: provide more accomodations, leisure activities and infrastructures...

The tourism industry grows with the hotel and hospitality industry.