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Hotel Industry Makes Room for Online Bookings

Holiday In Wales Cost-conscious travelers are not only surfing for low airfares, but reduced-rate hotel rooms as well, research has indicated.

Groople In the News Groople Selected by Bizbash as Provider for Group Travel Bookings June 1, BiZBash, the preeminent resource for the event planning industry, today announces a partnership with Groople.com, making Groople the exclusive online group travel partner for BiZBash's thousands of event professionals. BiZBash users now have Groople's group travel tools, with the unique ability to research and make group travel arrangements online. While most travel booking sites don't allow for group reservations at all, through BiZBash, hotel bookings for 5 rooms or hundreds of rooms are now simple to book and include special group rates. With an initial offering of hotels, the service will expand to offer airfare, cruise, car and rail bookings online. free number ( 4316) is available for arranging air, cruise, car and rail, as well as more complicated hotel requests.

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8mong many firsts for the group market, the new technology platform enables consumers to do something that other sites haven k allowed to book travel and accommodations for more than five rooms in a single online session. Featuring more than 56, 000 hotels, including 7, time group rates, Groople is primed to become the industry largest automated solution for unmanaged group leisure travel, a market estimated at $18 billion to $24 billion. Under its hosted inventory and commission models, Groople generates group bookings niche by niche for hotels and plans to add air, car, cruise, bus and rail later this year.

Cottage Holiday In Wales According to the Travel Industry Association of America (TIA), 57 percent of online travel bookers purchased accommodations on the Internet in 2002 that`s exactly halfway between airline tickets (77 percent) and rental cars (37 percent). Furthermore, Jupiter Research (a unit of this site`s corporate parent), predicts online hotel bookings to surge from $5 billion in 2001 to $14.8 billion in 2007.

The commissions are set at 30% of the industry standard commission received from the hotel or travel vendor on room revenue produced. The industry standard hotel commission can fluctuate depending on the size of the group, but typically is about 10% of the total room revenue. For instance, in July 2004, our average affiliate payment was $263.00 per booking. Our affiliate payments are a lot higher than most hotel reservation websites because group bookings encapsulate much more room revenue.

Caravan Holiday In Wales While this online revenue may seem like bad news to travel agents, Jupiter analysts believe that consumers are often overwhelmed and confused by the rate differentials and choices that are available online, often preferring to call the hotels directly or rely on the expertise of a travel agent.

For the booking of a conference room for 4 days in Hanover for 600 EUR you will receive a commission payment of 24 EUR from us. In contrast to other online travel suppliers, the booker has the option of cancelling at no charge until 6 p.m. on the planned day of arrival, he would pay the hotel directly on departure. As a result, the cancellation rate is far below the usual industry average.

Camping Holiday Wales In fact, Jupiter found that in 2001 for each $1 that the travel industry realized directly online, travel companies selling hotel products online garnered an additional $5 of booking revenue in traditional channels as a direct result of research that consumers did on the Web. A 2002 Jupiter study of 1,845 online travel buyers and browsers indicated that nearly half (48 percent) of those surveyed conducted research and purchased from an agency site, while 34 percent conducted research and purchased from a supplier site.

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Accommodation Holiday Wales Jared Blank, senior analyst, Jupiter Research, theorizes that an experienced Internet population will increasingly take advantage of the hotel industry`s reduced rates that were created to spur sagging occupancies. Additionally, online consolidators have been proactive in garnering reservations. Blank adds, "These low rates, and the ease of booking at most online agencies and consolidators, have brought new consumers online who otherwise would have reserved their lodging directly with the hotel."

Holiday Last Minute Wales PhoCusWright supports the predictions of increased Web bookings, expecting traditional travel agencies to represent just 18 percent of hotel sales in 2005 down from 21 percent in 2001 as hotel sales move online. The firm forecasts a 49 percent increase in online hotel sales in 2002, reaching $6.3 billion.

Catering Holiday Self Wales Vendors that can successfully capture the online hotel bookings market would serve the 64 million travelers who used the Internet to make travel plans in 2002, according to the TIA. Of those that use the Internet for travel planning, 41 percent actually made travel reservations online in 2002, translating to 39 million people up 25 percent over 2001.

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