Interview: HRS CEO on the Problem With Hotels and Airbnb for Business Travel
Photo Credit: HRS CEO Tobias Ragge HRS
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Travel managers want more of their employees to book hotel rooms through approved channels — and they want those hotels to agree on reasonable rates. There's a good business opportunity for companies that can help them achieve those goals.
We recently launched our weekly Corporate Travel Innovation Report, a newsletter focused on the future of corporate travel, the big fault lines of disruption for the travel managers and buyers, the innovators emerging from the sector, and the changing business traveler habits that are upending how corporate travel is packaged, bought and sold.
As part of our increased attention to corporate travel, we're sitting down with a handful of industry leaders for our new Corporate Travel CEO Listening Series to discover what the people at the top are concerned with now and where they are looking for inspiration.
Hotels are often a major problem area for travel managers. According to a recent survey from hotel service provider HRS and the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, those who purchase travel for their companies say rising hotel prices, the time required to negotiate rates, slow response time from hotels, and a lack of standard bidding processes are major barriers to l
