Hyatt Enters Business Travel Management Battleground
Photo Credit: A Hyatt Hotel in California. The company has made moves to get more involved in business travel management. Hyatt
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In a somewhat bizarre twist, even hotel chains are beginning to provide travel management tools to small businesses. This further underscores how much some growing businesses don't really want to deal with a travel management company at all.
A few interesting wrinkles in the corporate travel world this week show where the sector is going.
Hyatt Hotels announced a program for small businesses to receive discounts at some Hyatt properties, along with basic travel management tools to track spending and traveler whereabouts. Hyatt's smaller scale means it can try out new initiatives, but who knows how this one will work out? If they can add services and meeting spaces to the platform, though, this could be a big deal for small businesses.
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