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	Nuevamente, Bedsonline celebrará del 5 al 8 de septiembre su evento premier para agentes de viajes en todo México, Embajadores, en Los Cabos.
	Hard Rock Hotel Los Cabos, Cabo Adventures y Playa Resorts, respaldan a Embajadores con hospedaje y actividades.
	Contando con el apoyo exclusivo de sus patrocinadores Oro – Hard Rock Hotel los Cabos, Cabo Adventures, Playa Resorts, RIU Hotels &amp; Resorts, Guías México, Palladium Hotel Group, Universal Parks &amp; Resorts y Marival Resorts.


Orlando, 5 de agosto de 2019. Bedsonline, el proveedor global líder de acomodación y productos complementarios exclusivo para agencias de viajes ha anunciado hoy que celebrará la nueva edición de su evento líder para agentes de viajes dentro de Cabos San Lucas, ubicado en la punta sur de la península de Baja California en México, teniendo inicio el jueves 5 de septiembre y culminará el domingo 8 del mismo.

El prestigioso evento, el cual se celebra cada año, marca un hito en la industria y en el calendario de los agentes de viajes en todo el país – con el fin de conectar, agradecer y complementar el trabajo de sus clientes.

Los patrocinadores de Embajadores son siempre minuciosamente seleccionados y a su vez considerados entre los socios más prestigiosos de la industria. Este año, Bedsonline se enorgullece de contar con el célebre y todo incluido Hard Rock Hotel Los Cabos, el cual abrió sus puertas en junio de este año, como anfitrión del evento, Cabo Adventures, brindando experiencias inigualables por más de 10 años y el cual apoyará las actividades exclusivas disponibles para los participantes de Embajadores este año y Playa Resorts con su lujoso hotel all-inclusive donde se celebrará la apertura y cena bienvenida del evento, Hyatt Ziva Los Cabos.

Adicionalmente, los patrocinadores Oro anteriormente mencionados incluyen a RIU Hotels &amp; Resorts, cadena hotelera española con hoteles en destinos exclusivos alrededor del mundo, Guías México, servicio de excursiones en el interior de México ofreciendo experiencias inolvidables, Palladium Hotel Group, cadena hotelera con trayectoria de 50 años y con destinos en Europa y Latinoamérica, Universal Parks &amp; Resorts, mejor conocido por sus atractivos hoteles y parques temáticos y, por último, Marival Resorts, innovadora cadena de hoteles basada en México y enfocada en servicios de alta calidad.

Juan Carlos Caamal-Jiménez, México Sales Director para Bedsonline, ha comentado: “Me encuentro muy agradecido por todo el apoyo que siempre recibimos por parte de nuestros agentes de viajes, así como también el de nuestros socios comerciales que patrocinan el evento.”

“Me complace nuevamente darle la bienvenida a todos nuestros agentes top dentro del país – Embajadores se presta como una vía extraordinaria para promocionar el producto que tenemos dentro de la plataforma de Bedsonline.”

“Durante Embajadores, los agentes tienen la oportunidad de conocer en detalle sus productos favoritos y a la misma vez, forjar y fortalecer las relaciones con todos los líderes de la industria – este año estimamos contar con la asistencia de alrededor de 250 agentes y 25 patrocinadores y tenemos la seguridad de que el contenido para este Embajadores 2019 será de alto interés para todo el mercado local y regional.”

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Sobre Bedsonline&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 

Bedsonline es el proveedor global líder de acomodación y productos complementarios exclusivo para agencias de viajes. A través de su plataforma online distribuye su producto acomodación, excursiones, tickets y traslados- entre una cartera de clientes compuesta por más de 50.000 agencias de viajes con equipos de ventas en más de 30 países y que cubren más de 100 mercados en todo el mundo.

La compañía destaca por su extenso portfolio –más de 180.000 hoteles, 24.000 rutas de traslados y 18.000 actividades– para ofrecer un servicio personalizado local a través de una herramienta de reserva online intuitiva y fácil de usar. De esta manera, Bedsonline garantiza una alta disponibilidad, precios competitivos y una elevada satisfacción de sus clientes.

Bedsonline ha centrado su estrategia en los últimos años en la expansión por nuevos mercados de Europa, América y Asia, como Alemania, República Checa, México, Estados Unidos, Colombia, China, Japón y Filipinas. Esta visión estratégica ha llevado a la compañía a ocupar una posición de ventaja en la industria.

Bedsonline forma parte de Hotelbeds, el banco de camas B2B líder mundial que provee servicios a la industria de viajes en todo el mundo, con sede en Palma de Mallorca.

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Media Relations and Corporate Affairs

Alicia Orta Stanford

alicia.ortastanford@hotelbeds.com


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Bedsonline celebrará su nueva edición de Embajadores rumbo a Los Cabos 


	Role created to combine all sales functions, including&nbsp;wholesale, retail travel agents, airlines and B2B2C business lines.
	Herce joins Hotelbeds from Amadeus, where he held the position of Global Executive Vice President Retail and EMEA Managing Director across all segments.
	Additionally Herce will become a member of Hotelbeds’ Executive Committee.


Palma, Spain,&nbsp;5th August&nbsp;2019&nbsp;–&nbsp;Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, has announced today the recruitment of León Herce.

Herce joins as Global Sales Director in a newly created role leading the sales of&nbsp;Hotelbeds’ full portfolio of products including accommodation, transfers, car hire, tickets and excursions&nbsp;via the wholesale, retail travel agents, airlines and B2B2C business lines (including the Bedsonline and Hotelopia brands).

In addition to his role as Sales Director, Herce will become a member of the company’s Executive Committee.

Previously Herce spent over 15 years at travel technology company Amadeus, most recently as global head of the retail business. Previously he&nbsp;held roles such as VP for Latin America &amp; the Caribbean, VP Sales &amp; Marketing for Asia-Pacific, and Director of Group Controlling &amp; Commercial Finance.

Carlos Muñoz, Managing Director,&nbsp;Hotelbeds, said, “It gives me great pleasure to confirm that León Herce will be joining us as Global Sales Director. We felt it was the right moment to combine all the sales teams from the wholesale, retail travel agent, airlines and B2B2C teams under the leadership of one person – and León’s considerable experience in a variety of leading sales roles globally makes him the perfect person.”

León Herce, Global Sales Director, Hotelbeds, said, “It’s a real honour to be joining Hotelbeds at this key stage in its development and I look forward to helping the company grow its market share further. Together with my new team I want to make our tour operator, airlines, points redemption scheme, and retail travel agent clients more competitive and more profitable by providing them with unbeatable deals and world-class customer service.”

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About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotels across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain and employs around 5,000 employees across over 60 offices globally.

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Twitter: @Hotelbeds

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Hotelbeds media contact

Anna Monreal Pi

amonreal@hotelbeds.com

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León Herce joins Hotelbeds as Global Sales Director


	Hotelbeds registering double-digit growth compared to previous year.
	The B2B network of Hotelbeds, which includes more than 60,000 clients, driving high value bookings to the islands during period of demand lower than previous years.
	Contrary to the rest of the sector, Germany is providing strong growth for the company for the Balearic Islands destination.
	The company’s preferred agreements enables it to meet increased B2B demand for the islands and lay behind the success.&nbsp;


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Palma, August 1st 2019. Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, today announced a double-digit percentage increase in room night sales for the Balearic Islands, with more than 30% growth in the last eight weeks, when compared to the previous summer.

This strong growth for Hotelbeds contrasts with a season of lower demand and average rates for this summer when compared to previous years in the Balearic Islands and, therefore, demonstrates the great value that Hotelbeds offers to hoteliers by making available its extensive network of 60,000 B2B travel trade clients in a period of low occupancy.

In fact, this growth has been led by the increase in reservations of high-value B2B clients for hoteliers, such as retail travel agencies, traditional tour operators and airlines, whose travelers cancel less, book further in advance, spend more in destination and comeback more often.

Although the main source market for the company is the UK, followed by Spain, it is the German market that has registered an increase above 50% when compared to last year.

Germany, in contrast to the experience of the market, is the main driver of growth for the company in the Balearic Islands, supported by other markets with a significant increase such as Holland, France, Italy and Switzerland. Altogether Hotelbeds has attracted this summer B2B clients from more than 100 source markets to the Balearic Islands.

At the same time it is necessary to highlight as one of the key factors behind this success the preferred agreements that Hotelbeds has with some high-value hoteliers, which offers great stability in booking volumes for hoteliers and competitive rates for customers.

Marina Pérez Zanutel, Director of Contracting for the Balearic Islands at Hotelbeds adds: “Although the general occupancy rate this summer seems to be low in many Balearic hotels, and the RevPAR average has decreased, the increase in our reservations proves the value we bring to hoteliers, offering them more reservations where and when they need them most. In fact, out platform now has five times more availability in August than last year, which demonstrates the great contracting work our local team is doing.

“At Hotelbeds, additionally we are increasing market share in an environment of complicated demand and strong competition from destinations such as Turkey, Greece, Tunisia or Egypt. Our preferred agreements help us meet the strong demand for our distribution channel.”

Currently Hotelbeds is registering advanced sales for 2020, especially from traditional source markets such as the United Kingdom and Germany. Taking advantage of this dynamic, Hotelbeds is focusing its efforts on contracting more accommodation to support hoteliers on the islands to fill their rooms for next year.

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About Hotelbeds

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotels across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain and employs around 5,000 employees across over 60 offices globally.

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Hotelbeds Media contacts 

Media Relations &amp; Corporate Affairs

Antonia Aguiló

a.aguilo@hotelbeds.com


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Hotelbeds announces strong increase in tourist reservations this summer for the Balearic Islands


	Invitation only, three-day event will be held in Bali, Indonesia from 22nd – 25th October.
	‘SHIFTING FUTURES’ theme to explore how travel companies can future-proof their technology, payments, and data strategies – while tackling the key topic of the complexity of distribution.
	The Westin Resort Nusa Dua, Conrad Bali and Hilton Bali Resort confirmed as the hotel hosts – with sponsorship packages now available.
	Around 300 participants from leading tour operators, airlines, loyalty and points redemption schemes to attend from around 15 source markets across Asia-Pacific and Middle East.


Shanghai, 23rd&nbsp;July 2019.&nbsp;Hotelbeds,&nbsp;the world’s leading bedbank, has chosen Bali as the host destination for the 2nd edition of Hotelbeds´ MarketHub Asia event that will take place from 22nd – 25th October.

MarketHub Asia is an invitation-only, three-day event attended by around 300 of the most important Hotelbeds partners from all the key source markets of Asia-Pacific and Middle East.

Attendees this year are expected to include senior executives and decision makers from tour operators, airlines, and loyalty and reward points schemes.

The event follows the recent success of the Americas and European MarketHub editions that Hotelbeds held in May in Cancun and Istanbul respectively, each attended by over 350 of each region’s most important B2B travel trade buyers. The MarketHub Asia event this year will take place under the theme of ‘SHIFTING FUTURES’ and will explore how the travel sector should react to current industry changes and shifts in areas such as technology, the complexity of distribution, payments, and data.

Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze sponsorship packages are still available for companies that wish to gain exclusive positioning for their brands in front of Asia-Pacific’s leading travel trade buyers – and official sponsors will be announced in due course.

Additionally, Hotelbeds is proud to confirm that the hotel hosts for this year’s MarketHub Asia will be The Westin Resort Nusa Dua, Conrad Bali and Hilton Bali Resort.

Carlos Muñoz, Bedbank Managing Director at Hotelbeds, commented:&nbsp;“I’m very pleased to confirm that this year’s MarketHub Asia will be in Bali, Indonesia – one of the world’s most popular and beautiful tourist destinations.

“We launched the first edition of MarketHub Asia two years ago in Bangkok and received very positive feedback! This edition will be focused on our ‘SHIFTING FUTURES’ theme, exploring in depth the future of the hotel accommodation distribution eco-system. 

&nbsp;“This year’s MarketHub events are particularly exciting for us as they are the first large scale events as one consolidated company. Over the last year we’ve been working hard to create one new and enhanced business to better serve our partners including:&nbsp; a&nbsp;new and consolidated leadership structure; one single account management and billing point for all partners, including travel buyers and hoteliers; the launch of a Product Management department; and an enhanced IT structure that is now almost completely migrated onto one, new platform.” 

As a key and regular industry fixture since 2009, MarketHubs are one of the leading events for bringing the travel industry together, with nine previous events in the Americas, five in Europe, and one in Asia.

For more information about the MarketHub Asia event, including on how to sponsor the event, please visit&nbsp;https://themarkethub.com/asia/. &nbsp;

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About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotels across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain and employs around 5,000 employees across over 60 offices globally.

Follow us:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hotelbeds

Twitter: @Hotelbeds

Facebook: Hotelbeds

Hotelbeds Media contacts

PR, Media Relations &amp; Corporate Affairs

Wei Wang whitney.wang@hotelbeds.com


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Hotelbeds announces Bali as host destination for 2nd edition of MarketHub Asia


	The hotel partners of Cloudbeds will gain access to Hotelbeds’ +60,000 B2B travel buyers, including retail travel agents and tour operators.
	Cloudbeds’ inventory of 22,000 hotels, hostels and vacation rentals boosts Hotelbeds’ inventory for the benefit of its travel trade clients.


Palma, 16th&nbsp;July 2019. Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, has announced today a preferred partnership agreement with Cloudbeds, an easy to use all-in-one hospitality management suite that simplifies the working lives of hoteliers and hosts.

With this agreement Cloudbeds aims to increase its connectivity partnership program by helping its 22,000 hotel, hostel and vacation rental partners reach the over 60,000 B2B travel partners – including tour operators, travel agencies, airlines and points schemes in over 185 source markets – that use the Hotelbeds booking platform.

Additionally, the accommodation provider partners of Cloudbeds will benefit from the high-value guests that Hotelbeds’ B2B travel buyers typically offer, including guests that book earlier, pay more, cancel less, stay for longer and spend twice as much in the destination.

Cloudbeds creates cloud-based hospitality management software that simplifies the working lives of professional property owners and operators. The company has offices in San Diego, Dublin, and Sao Paulo Brazil and its employees are distributed in 31 different countries.

Through its powerful and simple suite of tools, Cloudbeds 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.

Adam Krzciuk Kuna, Head of Supplier Connectivity Partnerships at Hotelbeds said: “We are really happy to partner with Cloudbeds to boost our distribution network and feel that their hotel partners will benefit immensely from gaining access to our over 60,000 B2B travel buyers.

“We are starting a new era in relationships with channel managers and we want to recognize their great importance to our business; that’s why we recently launched a new preferred partnership program for channel managers and we´re very excited with Cloudbeds being one of the first participants.”

Sebastien Leitner, Director of Global Partnerships at Cloudbeds added: “Our partnership with Hotelbeds is an exciting milestone for us and we’re very proud to be partnering with a leading business-to-business bedbank worldwide. We look forward to helping our hotels to increase their sales and boost profitability through offering them access to the hard-to-reach B2B buyers Hotelbeds offers, such as retail travel agents, tour operators, loyalty schemes and airline websites.”

About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading Bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotels across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the

Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain and employs around 5,000 employees across over 60 offices globally.

Follow us:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hotelbeds

Twitter: @Hotelbeds

Facebook: Hotelbeds&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

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About Cloudbeds

Cloudbeds is one easy-to-use hospitality management suite that simplifies the working lives of hoteliers and hosts. Cloudbeds’ award-winning software is trusted by tens of thousands of boutique hotels, hostels, inns, vacation rentals and groups in over 148 countries. With over 300 distribution integrations, Cloudbeds helps properties grow revenue and automate their workflows with confidence and ease. Founded in 2012, Cloudbeds has expanded to over 200 people with local teams in 31 countries, speaking 17 languages.

For more information, please visit www.cloudbeds.com or reach us at Facebook.com/cloudbeds and on Twitter at @cloudbeds.

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Hotelbeds Media contacts 

Media Relations &amp; Corporate Affairs

Antonia Aguiló

a.aguilo@hotelbeds.com


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Cloudbeds increases distribution reach for its hotel partners through agreement with Hotelbeds


	Hotelbeds plans to add 14,000 new travel agent customers by 2022 to take the total number of travel agents to 64,000.
	Plan forms part of Hotelbeds’ strong commitment to offer hotelier partners incremental bookings from non-domestic and high-value guests.
	Growth focused on luxury agents and those specialising in high-value and long-haul trips.


Palma, 2nd July, 2019. Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, has announced today an ambitious plan to increase the number of travel agent customers affiliated to the bedbank booking platform as part of its commitment to offer hoteliers access to high-value guests.

The goal of this strategic plan is to add 14,000 new travel agent customers – focusing in particular on luxury travel agents and those specialising in high-value, long-haul bookings – in the coming next three years, taking the total to over 64,000 travel agents globally.

Travel agents – along with tour operators, airlines and points redemption schemes – form a central part of Hotelbeds’ strong commitment to offer to hoteliers incremental bookings of non-domestic and high-value guests who book further in advance, cancel less, pay more for a room, spend more in destination and come back more frequently.

Carlos Muñoz, Bedbank Managing Director commented: “Recently we announced the beginning of a new era for Hotelbeds under a single unified brand and purpose: to support our hotel partners by providing incremental bookings of non-domestic and high-value guests through a network of B2B travel trade buyers formed by travel agents, tour operators, points redemption schemes and airlines.

“Our three-year plan for the retail channel is to continue to grow the number of travel agents to over 64,000 by 2022 – an increase of 14,000 – especially in niche segments such as luxury and high-end, long-haul oriented and specialty packages.

“The recently refreshed new Bedsonline brand – which is the retail brand used by Hotelbeds – and enhanced value proposition for customers, along with our strong local relevance and presence, improved product offering and tools are going to be the key drivers in achieving this goal.”

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About Hotelbeds

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading Bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotels across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain and employs around 5,000 employees across over 60 offices globally.

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Twitter: @Hotelbeds

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PR, Media Relations &amp; Corporate Affairs

Anna Monreal amonreal@hotelbeds.com


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Hotelbeds strengthens commitment to offer hoteliers high-value bookings with plan to add 14,000 travel agent customers 


	HotelRunner’s hotel partners gain access to Hotelbeds’ +60,000 high value travel trade buyers, including retail travel agents, airlines, points redemption schemes and tour operators.
	These channels typically offer non-domestic and high-value guests that book further in advance, cancel less, stay for longer and spend more in the hotel.
	The 35,000 hotels, hostels and vacation rentals in HotelRunner’s inventory to further boost Hotelbeds’ portfolio for the benefit of its travel trade clients.


Palma, 19th June 2019. Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, has announced today a preferred partnership agreement with HotelRunner, a sales channel management platform and B2B network for OTAs and hotels.

With this agreement HotelRunner increases its connectivity partnership program by helping its 35,000 hotel, hostel and vacation rental partners reach the over 60,000 travel trade buyers that use the Hotelbeds booking platform – including tour operators, travel agencies, airlines and points redemption schemes in over 185 source markets.

As a result of gaining access to Hotelbed’s travel trade buyers the accommodation partners of HotelRunner will benefit from incremental reservations from non-domestic markets via&nbsp; Hotelbeds global distribution channels that generate high-value bookings with guests that, on average, book earlier, cancel less, stay for longer and spend twice as much in destination.

With this partnership, HotelRunner will assist Hotelbeds to access significant additional hotel partners globally, with wider coverage in Turkey, Africa, LATAM and South East Asia.

Adam Krzciuk Kuna, Head of Supplier Connectivity Partnerships at Hotelbeds said: “We are really happy to partner with HotelRunner and feel that that this agreement is a real win-win, whereby its hotel partners that don’t currently work with Hotelbeds can benefit from our strong distribution power and at the same time we at Hotelbeds can grow the portfolio of hotels that we offer to our travel agents, tour operators, airlines, points redemption schemes and other clients.

“Channel managers are more important to us than ever before and we recognize their great importance to our business; last year we launched a new preferred partnership program for channel managers and HotelRunner is one of the first key participants.”

Ali Beklen, Founder &amp; Managing Partner at HotelRunner added: “HotelRunner has been working with Hotelbeds already for five years and now we are taking our partnership to a strategic level as a response to their new preferred partnership program.

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“Using our proven experience in acquiring new accommodation partners and applying the best practices of both companies to the process of accommodation on-boarding and engagement, we’ll work together to on-board thousands of new properties from all over the world, improving our hotels’ connectivity experience whilst also offering them access to non-competing reservations from hard-to-reach booking channels that offer quality guests that overall are more profitable for the hotels.”

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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.

The company has offices in the United States, United Kingdom and Turkey, and has properties in 193 countries ranging from daily short-term rentals to bed and breakfasts, boutique hotels and enterprise hotels and chains.&nbsp;

About Hotelbeds

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Hotelbeds is the world’s leading Bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotels across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the

Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain and employs around 5,000 employees across over 60 offices globally.

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Follow us:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hotelbeds

Twitter: @Hotelbeds

Facebook: Hotelbeds

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About HotelRunner

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Founded in 2011, HotelRunner is a distribution platform and B2B network for accommodations and travel agencies to find, contract, connect and transact with each other online. HotelRunner has more than 35,000 accommodation partners and over 150 travel agency partners from 193 countries. HotelRunner is a Booking.com Premier Connectivity Partner, Airbnb Preferred Software Partner, Agoda Innovative Supplier, Oracle Gold, Skyscanner and Google Hotel Ads Partner.

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Twitter: @HotelRunner

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Hotelbeds Media contacts 

Media Relations &amp; Corporate Affairs

Antonia Aguiló

a.aguilo@hotelbeds.com


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HotelRunner increases distribution reach for hotel partners with Hotelbeds agreement


	The world’s leading bedbank launched a Chinese domain for its hotel extranet, MaxiRoom.
	The launch forms part of a partnership with global technology and cloud leader Alibaba Cloud.
	MaxiRoom was originally launched in 2015 and helps hotel providers to maximize distribution globally via Hotelbeds’ 60,000 travel agent, tour operator, airline and points redemption buyers globally.


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Shanghai, June 17, 2019. Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, has recently launched a China-based hotel extranet solution for hoteliers in China.

As of today China-based hoteliers will have access to a Chinese domain version of MaxiRoom, the Hotelbeds free hotel extranet that was launched in 2015. MaxiRoom is designed to control and maximize hotel occupancy rates through Hotelbeds’ distribution channels in a faster, smarter and easier way.

Chinese hoteliers will be able to access MaxiRoom via a Chinese domain –&nbsp; https://www.maxiroom.cn – allowing them to access Maxiroom without facing any restrictions and in Chinese.

Adam Krzciuk Kuna, Head of Supplier Connectivity Partnerships, Hotelbeds comments: “Doing business in China requires a bespoke approach as their technology platforms are different. In the past we tried other non-domestic websites, but the performance of the platform was not up to the standard we wish our hotel partners to receive. The domestic domain is created to improve usability and functionality, which is part of our commitment to offer hotels a segmented and ever stronger value proposition that will make us the best company to work with. MaxiRoom offers hoteliers greater autonomy by helping them find and manage their rates, availability, offers and content more easily.”

Kevin Liu, General Manager of Alibaba Cloud&nbsp;for France and Southern Europe comments: “Alibaba's mission is to make it easy to do business anywhere. We did just that for Maxiroom and Hotelbeds, and we look forward to supporting them even more in the future with our technology innovations. Working with the technology team at hotelbeds has been great. It is a cloud center of excellence.”

Key initiatives such as this dedicated Chinese Maxiroom domain demonstrate the continuous efforts to excel in providing hoteliers with not only access to incremental sales growth, but also the best technology to achieve that.

MaxiRoom helps hoteliers to be more competitive, since it offers information about performance in comparison with local competitors and allows hoteliers to make decisions to improve their pricing in order to optimize productivity.

Other features of MaxiRoom include:

• Interactive calendar where hoteliers can make rate and room type changes.

• An intuitive content management system designed to easily update the quality of information, images and offers.

• A tool that allows to quickly and easily make massive changes in availability and price by product range or by room type.

• Smart alerts that notify hotel partners about dates that have been left unavailable, incomplete descriptions or lack of images so they can improve their showcase on the platform.

• A promotions manager that allows hoteliers to launch their own offers directly any time and in a dynamic way.

Hotels that work with Hotelbeds have access to more than 60,000 tour operators, airlines, point redemption programs, loyalty plans, and travel agents from more than 140 source markets.

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About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading Bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotels across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain and employs around 5,000 employees across over 60 offices globally.

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Hotelbeds launches Chinese domain for its hotel extranet 


	Over 700 attendees at MarketHub Americas and Europe events – made up of travel agencies, tour operators, airlines and points redemption partners – were surveyed on their technology views.
	Only 18% of those surveyed felt their mobile consumer website “best in class” and only 24% have adopted machine learning capacity.
	Many B2C travel companies in Europe admitted that their business has “no near future plans to embrace blockchain”, with only 11% having already adopted the technology.


Palma,&nbsp; 13th June 2019 – Hotelbeds, the world´s nº1 leading bedbank, has today released details of the audience surveys conducted at its recent MarketHub Americas and Europe events held last May in Cancun and Istanbul respectively.

Participants at both MarketHub events – which were attended by over 700 senior representatives from travel agencies, tour operators, airlines and points redemption partners from across the Americas and Europe– took part in audience surveys digitally during the conference sessions. Attendees responded to a series of questions about their views and understanding of technology.

The results showed that whilst the B2C travel companies are aware of the importance of technology to drive growth in their businesses, nevertheless many intermediaries in the B2C space are struggling to respond to the challenges of new technology – and could boost their business by both improving their technology and their understanding of its benefits.

When attendees at the MarketHub Americas event were asked “How do you rate your consumer mobile website?”, 44% of respondents said they needed a little help, 23% said they needed a lot of help, 6% admitted they were awful in this area, and 9% admitted to not having a site. Only 18% felt their mobile consumer site to be best in class.

Additionally, the results showed that machine learning still represents a huge opportunity for B2C travel companies. Only 24% were able to confirm that their business was currently using machine learning, with 10% having plans to introduce machine learning and 6% having no plans. Interestingly, 38% weren´t sure if their business was using machine learning or not.

MarketHub Europe audience results showed that around 78% of the attendees admitted that their business has “no near future plans to embrace blockchain”, with only 11% having already adopted the technology and the small remainder planning to do so in the coming 12 months.

When asked about marketing automation in their business, 14% of the European event attendees didn’t know if their business was using it and 15% confirmed they weren’t using it at all; an additional 37% revealed they were only using the most basic of automation techniques, with only 22% feeling themselves “reasonably advanced” and just 11% feeling themselves “advanced”.

Carlos Muñoz, Bedbank Managing Director at&nbsp;Hotelbeds&nbsp;commented: “Part of our motivation for organizing these events is to gain an insight into the knowledge and needs of our customers, and these audience surveys are fantastic means of gaining instant feedback in a way that could never happen via an email or phone survey.

“For me these results show the role that providers such as ourselves play in the travel distribution ecosystem, supporting B2B travel trade buyers to help them respond to technological evolution and the ever increasing needs of consumers.

“Through events such as these and the experience and support of our in-house IT and product management teams, we supply our B2B2C customers with the knowledge and tools to remain competitive and profitable – whilst fulfilling the same role with our hotelier partners, to connect the two together seamlessly.

“For instance, our booking platform can have peaks of up to 3 billion searches per day, something few individual companies could cope with; so much data additionally gives us great insight into consumer desire, something we then feed back to our hotelier partners to make sure they are providing the right product, at the right price, to the right buyer, at the right moment. ”

The MarketHub events are an invitation-only, three-day event attended by some of the most important Hotelbeds partners from all the key markets across the Americas and Europe. Attendees range from senior executives and decision makers from tour operators, airlines, loyalty and point redemption businesses to leading travel agency chains and online travel advisors.

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For more information about the MarketHub event, please visit&nbsp;

https://themarkethub.com/americas/

https://www.themarkethub.com/europe/

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About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s nº1 leading Bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotels across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty businesses in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the

Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialize its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain and employs around 5,000 employees across over 60 offices globally.

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Audience survey at Hotelbeds’ MarketHub events reveals B2C travel tech challenges


	During the last year more than 5,000 additional European hotels have begun distributing via Hotelbeds.
	Over 70,000 unique hotels now available in Europe to Hotelbeds’ global network of 60,000 retail travel agents, tour operators, airlines and points redemption schemes – with over 180,000 hotels available globally.
	Over 40% of total hotels in Europe are directly contracted under exclusive conditions.


Istanbul, 30th May 2019. Hotelbeds, the world’s nº 1 B2B bedbank, has confirmed today at MarketHub Europe event, which takes place in Istanbul from 28th to 31st May, an increase in the number of European hotel partners available for its B2B travel buyers globally.

During the last year Hotelbeds has increased in Europe by 5,000 the number of unique hotels available on its platform to its global network of over 60,000 B2B travel buyers such as retail travel agents, tour operators, airlines and points redemption schemes.

Currently a total of 70,000 unique hotels are available on the Hotelbeds system in Europe, of which 40% of them are directly contracted under exclusive terms and conditions – whilst at a global level over 180,000 unique hotels are available on the platform.

In Turkey, where the MarketHub Europe event is taking place, the number of hotels contracted increased by 300 during the last year reaching a total of 4,500 hotels available to book.

This follows Hotelbeds recently confirming a strategic partnership with KILIT HOSTPITALITY GROUP, Turkey’s largest leisure hotel company and the owners of Crystal Hotel Chain, Amara World Hotels and Nirvana Lagoon Luxury.

Carlos Muñoz, Bedbank Managing Director at Hotelbeds commented: “This significant increase in the number of European hotels in our portfolio reflects the demand for access to our B2B travel buying customers, such as retail travel agents and tour operators, or airlines and points redemption schemes – all of which offer guests that pay more, cancel less, book further in advance, spend more at the hotel and come back more often.

“Because of this over the last year we have been successful in signing strategic partnerships with key hotel chains and preferred agreements with channel managers worldwide. This has in part been supported by the expansion of the contracting workforce to over 1,100 contractors based around the world in popular local destinations.”

The MarketHub Europe event is an invitation-only, three-day event attended by some of the most important Hotelbeds partners from all the key markets across Europe. Attendees are senior executives and decision makers from tour operators, airlines, loyalty and point redemption businesses, leading travel agency chains and online travel agencies.

A key and regular industry fixture since 2009, MarketHubs are one of the leading events for bringing the travel industry together, with eight previous events held in the Americas, five in Europe, and one in Asia. The first MarketHub Europe was held in Seville back in 2013 and since then Hotelbeds has held the event in several top Spanish destinations, such as Tenerife and Ibiza.

The MarketHub Europe event kicked-off with a cocktail dinner on the Tuesday evening, with the Wednesday and Thursday featuring a conference and trade show by day and exclusive entertainment by night.

For more information about the MarketHub Europe event, please visit&nbsp;https://www.themarkethub.com/europe/

&nbsp;

About Hotelbeds

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading business-to-business Bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotels across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the

Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain and employs around 5,000 employees across over 60 offices globally.

Follow us:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hotelbeds

Twitter: @Hotelbeds

Facebook: Hotelbeds

&nbsp;

Hotelbeds media contact

PR, Media Relations &amp; Corporate Affairs

Anna Monreal amonreal@hotelbeds.com


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5,000 additional European hoteliers recognize the value of B2B sales channel


	Analysis shows that around 86% of reservations that Hotelbeds offers its European hotel partners originate from non-domestic source markets – with around one in three coming from non-European, long-haul source markets.
	Proportion of long-haul bookings has recently grown thanks to China bookings, with China now ranking as Hotelbeds’ sixth biggest source market travelling to Europe, up 40% compared to the same period last year.
	Non-domestic, and in particular long-haul, bookings typically pay a higher rate, cancel less, are made further in advance, stay for longer, spend more in destination and return more often.


Istanbul, 29th May, 2019 – Hotelbeds, the world´s nº1 B2B bedbank, has today provided at MarketHub Europe event, which takes place this week in Istanbul, an update on the non-domestic bookings that its B2B sales platform offers to its European hotel partners.

Hotelbeds can confirm that 86% of its bookings for European destinations are non-domestic. Additionally, 28% of its European hotel reservations currently come from non-European, long-haul source markets, up from around 25% in 2018.

This growth in international tourists arriving to Europe can be mainly attributed to a 40% year-on-year increase in reservations for Chinese tourists via Hotelbeds, with China now ranking as Hotelbeds’ sixth biggest source market to Europe.

Carlos Muñoz, Hotelbeds Managing Director, said, “We have always been able to offer our European hotel partners a very high and steady proportion of non-domestic bookings and within that a significant part has always been from long-haul, non-European source markets, such as the United States, Japan and Middle East.

“Not only do these incremental bookings complement a hotel’s distribution mix, it also provides them with guests that typically pay a higher rate, cancel less, stay for longer, spend more at the hotel and even come back more often &nbsp;– such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites and loyalty and reward points schemes&nbsp; – in other words, high-value reservations. This is even more so the case with the long-haul bookings as they typically stay much longer and spend much more.

“But now the boom in Chinese visitors is increasing the percentage of non-European bookings even higher. We can confirm today at MarketHub in Europe that we’ve worked hard over the last few years to raise awareness with our European hotelier partners on how to best attract Chinese travellers to their hotel, advising them on points such as not just language, but strategies such as social media, payments and even Chinese travellers’ tastes.”

Currently a total of 180,000 unique hotels globally are available on the Hotelbeds system and a majority of the hotels are directly contracted under exclusive terms and conditions. This growth has been driven by the renewed focus of Hotelbeds in providing its hotel partners with incremental bookings via its network of 60,000 travel buyers from both non-domestic source markets and B2B buyers – including tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites and loyalty and reward points schemes.

Reservations made via the B2B offer hoteliers high-value guests that typically book earlier, pay more, cancel less, stay for longer and spend twice as much in the destination.

The MarketHub Europe event is an invitation-only, three-day event attended by some of the most important Hotelbeds partners from all the key markets across Europe. Attendees are senior executives and decision makers from tour operators, airlines, loyalty and point redemption businesses, leading travel agency chains and online travel agencies.

A key and regular industry fixture since 2009, MarketHubs are one of the leading events for bringing the travel industry together, with eight previous events held in the Americas, five in Europe, and one in Asia. The first MarketHub Europe was held in Seville back in 2013 and since then Hotelbeds has held the event in several top Spanish destinations, such as Tenerife and Ibiza.

The MarketHub Europe event kicked-off with a cocktail dinner on the Tuesday evening, with the Wednesday and Thursday featuring a conference and trade show by day and exclusive entertainment by night.

For more information about the MarketHub Europe event, please visit&nbsp;https://www.themarkethub.com/europe/

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*&nbsp; European markets definition includes all European Union countries, plus Switzerland, Norway, Belarus, Macedonia and Turkey.&nbsp;

** All figures quoted in this press release are based on bookings made via the Hotelbeds booking platform and refer to year-on-year adjustments as of the end of April based on Room Nights. 

&nbsp;

About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading business-to-business Bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotels across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the

Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialize its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain and employs around 5,000 employees across over 60 offices globally.

Follow us:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hotelbeds

Twitter: @Hotelbeds

Facebook: Hotelbeds

Hotelbeds Media contacts

Media Relations &amp; Corporate Affairs

Anna Monreal

amonreal@hotelbeds.com

Antonia Aguiló

a.aguilo@hotelbeds.com

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Hotelbeds connects European hoteliers with high-value, non-domestic bookings  


	Already 1,700 employees have participated in around 230 activities, dedicating 5,000+ hours to volunteering.
	11 events have been organized globally since April 2018 in different Hotelbeds offices worldwide.
	56 NGOs around the globe are benefiting from the program.
	Hotelbeds started rolling-out its Corporate Volunteering program office-by-office with the first launch one year ago.


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Palma, 23 May 2019. Hotelbeds, the world’s leading business-to-business bedbank has announced today the great results of its recently launched Corporate Volunteering program, as part of Hotelbeds’ Corporate Sustainability strategy.

The program, which was recently launched at the company’s headquarters in Palma, Spain, has already reached a participation rate of 60% amongst employees where the programme is live. &nbsp;

Employees have already participated in around 230 volunteering activities and dedicated 5,000+ hours to support the following areas: the environment, health, people at risk of social exclusion, poverty and childhood.

Launched in the first office one year ago, Hotelbeds has gradually rolled out the program globally hosting 11 events across its different Hotelbeds offices worldwide, including Orlando, Singapore, Bangkok, Cancun, Tel Aviv, Dubai, London, Beijing, Shanghai, Zurich and most recently the headquarters in Palma de Mallorca, reaching a total of 3,000 of&nbsp; 5,000 employees worldwide.

Around 50 NGOs around the globe have been able to benefit from the Hotelbeds Corporate Volunteering program, including NGOs such as Give Kids the World in Orlando,&nbsp; Beyond Social Services in Singapore, The Thai Red Cross in Bangkok, Mallorca Sense Fam and El Grec in Mallorca and Food for Life in Tel Aviv, among many others.

Elena Pérez, Human Resources Director at Hotelbeds, says: “I am thrilled that we have already more than 60% of our employees participating in the Volunteering Program – this is before we’ve even rolled-out the program in all offices. It has been very well received in all the offices where it has been implemented over the last year year. Our focus now is to continue supporting the program, planning more activities, engaging more NGOs and rolling out the Volunteer Program to the remaining Hotelbeds offices worldwide”.

Teresa Laso, who leads Corporate Sustainability at Hotelbeds, adds: “I’m very proud of the great success of our Volunteering Program worldwide. At Hotelbeds we strongly believe that giving back to the community is at the core of our culture and with this initiative we wanted to go one step further and provide the whole workforce with easy access to voluntary activities – and a chance to make a difference. In that line we want to foster an environment where employees feel inspired and play an integral role not only helping the company and its commercial partners, but also making a positive impact on the whole community around them.”

The volunteering program aims to encourage the Hotelbeds workforce to actively participate in volunteering opportunities throughout the globe and making meaningful contributions to the communities where Hotelbeds employees work and live.

Using the VolunteerMatch platform, Hotelbeds employees are able to search, schedule, and collaborate on a range of meaningful volunteering opportunities – with the ability to identify events based on location, causes, time commitment, and skills necessary.

&nbsp;

About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading business-to-business Bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotels across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the

Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain and employs around 5,000 employees across over 60 offices globally.

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