The business traveller’s search for cheaper hotel accommodation has helped to fuel a near doubling of the UK budget hotel market since 2000, pushing its turn-over beyond £1bn.
Whitbread’s Premier Travel Inn and Dubai International Capital’s Travelodge have provided much of the supply growth, the number of extra rooms increasing by about 8,000 rooms a year […]
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Business travel lifts budget hotels
When it comes to business travel, it pays to prepare for medical emergencies
John Friel figured that he always knew everything there was to know about overseas business travel. As a scientist for the U.S. specialty chemical manufacturer Rohm & Haas, he routinely travels to Europe, South America and Asia. And he admits that he never thought twice about anything going wrong.Until, of course, it did.
The downgrading of business travel
For many professionals, business travel used to come with certain perks — a posh hotel, a lavish meal, minibar raids and maybe a pay-per-view movie before bed. But, with hotel rates skyrocketing and companies clamping down on spending, business travel is becoming increasingly bare-bones, even a tinge humiliating. These days, it can sometimes resemble college-dorm […]
Foreign tour firms set for easier travel
The tourism regulator is working on details to further open the market to foreign operators by lowering capital requirements and allowing subsidiaries.
Foreign tour agencies will be treated on par with domestic counterparts when it comes to registered capital, a China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) official has said.
10 ways to regain some control of your business travel expenses
When you own your business and pay all the bills, business travel takes on new meaning. Unlike corporate travelers who are backed by expense accounts and expect upgrades and perks, you are clearly fixated on the bottom line.
The good news is that even in these times of rising travel prices there are […]