Industry Partnerships • 24/04/2026 TUI and Airxelerate: The Cloud Bet That Could Redraw B2B Tour Operator Distribution
RFP & Contract Management • 23/04/2026 Why Your Tour Operator Contract Is Quietly Losing You Money in 2026
Industry Partnerships • 03/05/2026 How to Structure Tour Operator Partnerships That Actually Drive Occupancy
Travel Program Optimization • 17/01/2026 Elevating business travel: how media partnerships are redefining hospitality industry marketing
Industry Partnerships • 12/06/2026 Tour Operator Partnerships in 2026: Net Rate, Allocation and Markup Decoded for Hotel Commercial Teams Operational guide for hotel commercial teams on tour operator partnerships in 2026, decoding net rates, allocation, markup, parity and digital contracting.
RFP & Contract Management • 12/06/2026 Final HITEC Prep: Five Questions Your CFO Wants You to Answer Before You Sign Anything in San Antonio HITEC is days away. Use five sharp CFO questions to stress test hospitality tech vendors in San Antonio, tighten contracts, and turn demos into disciplined deals.
Travel Technology Providers • 03/06/2026 Three Weeks to HITEC San Antonio: Building a Vendor Shortlist That Survives Demo Day Learn how to turn your HITEC 2026 vendor shortlist into a one-page business case, with concrete metrics, a copy-and-paste evaluation template and CFO-ready criteria for hospitality and corporate travel technology buyers.
Corporate Travel Buying • 01/06/2026 The B2B Hotel Marketing Funnel Is Quietly Reorganising Around Procurement Buyers Learn how B2B hotel marketing can win procurement-led buying committees by replacing brand storytelling with benchmark data, TCO models and technology proof points for corporate travel programmes.
Supplier Negotiations • 27/05/2026 Your Tour Operator Mix Is a Portfolio, Not a Spreadsheet: Stop Managing It Like One Learn how to manage tour operator partnerships like a risk-balanced portfolio using three core metrics, quarterly rebalancing and digital contracting tools to protect ADR, reduce concentration risk and improve guest experience.
Market Trends & Data • 25/05/2026 Event Risk Is the New Forecast Risk: Reading STR's First-of-May Snapshot Like a Commercial Director How STR weekly hotel data and event-driven volatility are reshaping hotel revenue, corporate travel programmes and RFP strategy, with examples from Tampa, Miami, Las Vegas and San Francisco.
Performance Metrics • 14/05/2026 Pre-Summer Audit: Is Your Tour Operator Allocation Still Earning Its Place? Mid May is not too late to reset tour operator partnerships. Learn the four levers GMs can still move to protect rate, pace and relationships.
Industry Partnerships • 13/05/2026 B2B Travel Marketing: The Channels That Actually Drive Qualified Corporate Demand Learn how B2B travel marketing really works in the managed corporate travel ecosystem, from RFP and GDS channels to AI-driven buyers, attribution, 90-day audits and industry partnerships for hotel groups.
Technology & Innovation • 12/05/2026 HITEC 2026 Preview: Five Vendor Questions to Take With You to Indianapolis Learn how to turn HITEC, IMEX and regional travel trade shows into a unified sourcing funnel, using a five-question vendor script, a practical pre-show checklist, and data-backed benchmarks for real-time hospitality and corporate travel technology decisions.
Business Hotels • 07/05/2026 Trade Show ROI: The Overlooked Commercial Metrics Hospitality Executives Should Track Learn how hotels can turn travel trade shows from reputation spend into audited commercial assets using weighted pipeline, 180-day cohorts, and partnership-led RevPAR metrics.
Benchmarking Without Blinders: Why STR Data Alone Is Not a Strategy Market Trends & Data • 08/05/2026 Benchmarking Without Blinders: Why STR Data Alone Is Not a Strategy Why STR benchmarking alone is not enough for modern business travel revenue strategy. Learn four first-party data signals, how to combine STR with internal data, and how to build a contribution matrix your board will actually use.
Technology & Innovation • 06/05/2026 B2B Hotel Marketing in the Age of AI Buyers: The Playbook Has Quietly Shifted Learn how B2B travel marketing is changing as AI driven booking tools reshape corporate travel. See why data quality, rate integrity and quarterly audits now matter more than slogans for hotels, TMCs and travel agencies.
Loyalty & Distribution • 06/05/2026 GDS Systems in 2026: What Hotel Commercial Teams Still Need to Understand Clear, practical guide to GDS systems for hotel and corporate travel leaders: how Global Distribution Systems work, why they matter for managed travel, and how to optimise GDS distribution strategy without wasting budget.
Technology & Innovation • 04/05/2026 Inside Minor Hotels' Tech Overhaul: Real-Time Intelligence as Operating Principle Minor Hotels is rebuilding its real-time tech stack. What this travel technology B2B shift means for hotel groups, TMCs and corporate travel programmes.
Loyalty & Distribution • 04/05/2026 Agentic Booking Is Not a Channel. It Is a New Distribution Layer. Agentic distribution is redefining travel technology B2B. Why AI agents are an infrastructure layer above channels, and how hotel and corporate travel leaders must respond.
Loyalty & Distribution • 28/04/2026 Wholesale, Retail or Direct: Decoding the Rate Parity Puzzle for Independent Hoteliers Wholesale travel and rate parity explained for corporate travel managers and hoteliers. Learn how wholesale discounts, bedbanks, and parity clauses shape your business rate stack, and how to design competitive, duty-of-care compliant pricing.
Market Trends & Data • 27/04/2026 The K-Shaped Year: STR Q1 2026 Forecast Confirms a Two-Speed Hotel Industry Analysis of K-shaped travel industry trends in Q1 2026, showing how fragmented demand, ADR discipline, sustainable travel and AI adoption are reshaping corporate travel, hotel revenue strategies and future contracting.
Business Hotels • 21/04/2026 Your Summer 2026 Commercial Playbook: Five Signals Hotel Revenue Teams Cannot Ignore Pre‑summer is the critical window for reading travel industry trends. Learn how revenue leaders and corporate travel managers can use five key signals, K‑shaped demand patterns, and an April–June action plan to optimise pricing, channels, and experience‑driven business travel.
Travel Technology Providers • 13/04/2026 How much does it cost to rent a plane for corporate and media business travel strategies A detailed guide for corporate and media travel buyers on how much it costs to rent a plane, key cost drivers, risk management, and strategic options.
Travel Technology Providers • 10/04/2026 Optimizing ibc size strategies for media business travel in hospitality supply chains How optimizing ibc size, materials, and standards in hospitality supply chains strengthens media business travel programs, safety, sustainability, and financial performance.
