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	HotelRunner’s accommodation partners will benefit from access to the more than 60,000 high value travel trade buyers - including retail travel agents, airlines, loyalty point schemes and tour operators – that form Hotelbeds’ portfolio.
	Over 40,000 hotels and hostels properties from HotelRunner’s inventory will also be available to Hotelbeds’ travel trade clients.
	Through this agreement, HotelRunner’s partners will have access to harder to reach, high value, non-domestic bookings, once long-haul travel recovers.


Palma, Spain, 21 January 2021 – Hotelbeds, the world’s leading B2B bedbank, has today announced the extension of its partnership with HotelRunner, a sales channel management platform and B2B network for OTAs and hoteliers.

Further building on over six years of successful partnership, HotelRunner’s 40,000 hotel and hostel partners from all over the world will continue to have access to Hotelbeds’ 60,000 travel trade buyers – including tour operators, travel agencies, airlines and loyalty points schemes drawn from over 185 source markets.

Once long-haul travel recovers, Hotelbeds’ travel trade buyers will provide the accommodation partners of HotelRunner with high value, incremental reservations from non-domestic markets. Typically, &nbsp;the average guest profile from these channels,&nbsp; books earlier, cancels less, stays for longer and spends twice as much in destination. HotelRunner will also continue to provide Hotelbeds’ travel distribution&nbsp; clients with access to significant additional hotel partners globally, with wider coverage in the United States, LATAM, Africa and South East Asia.

Paul Anthony, Digital Commercialisation Director at Hotelbeds, said: “As part of this extended partnership with HotelRunner, there is a very strong opportunity for Hotelbeds to not only acquire new hotels, especially in the long tail space, but also to grow the inventory managed through those hotels by maximizing the rate-mix, competitiveness and availability.

We are working hard together to build shared capabilities to help identify, process and convert opportunities through automated processes, self-service solutions and leveraging data. This will help ensure that together we are effectively positioned for the recovery of international travel.”

Arden Agopyan, Founder &amp; Managing Partner from HotelRunner, added: "Our six-year long and continuously growing relationship has been very productive, and we are now ready to take this to a more strategic level.

When the recovery in international travel occurs, our 40,000+ accommodation partners from all over the world will want to capitalize on that by accessing hard-to-reach bookings from all channels including the offline channels such as tour operators, travel agents, airlines and points redemption schemes – of which Hotelbeds has over 60,000 such partners around the world.”

Through its powerful and easy-to-use suite of tools, HotelRunner gives all properties, regardless of size, access to the best hospitality management technology. This means hoteliers and hosts can grow reservations and automate their workflows with confidence and ease.

The company has offices in the United States, United Kingdom and Turkey, and has properties in 193 countries ranging from daily short-term rentals to B&amp;Bs, boutique hotels and enterprise hotels and chains.&nbsp;

About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading B2B bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotel properties across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimize RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 25,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialize its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain.

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About HotelRunner

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HotelRunner is a distribution platform and B2B network for accommodations and travel agencies to find, contract, connect and transact with each other online.

HotelRunner helps accommodations transition their sales and operations from off to online, maximizing their online visibility through a very user-friendly self-service platform and with freemium business model.

HotelRunner, provides a complete online sales and distribution management platform for all types of accommodations - including a direct web booking engine, a 2-way channel manager integrated with 150+ online/offline travel agencies, metasearch, wholesalers and GDS, as well as a sophisticated multilingual website content management system, front-desk and call centre management, guest relationship management, reporting, payment collection and promotion tools.

HotelRunner with its HotelRunner Connect division, provides supply acquisition and contracting, automated on-boarding and account opening, engagement, performance benchmarking and reporting, and commission collection services for travel agencies, travel technology providers, and payment systems.

HotelRunner is present in 193 countries with 40,000+ accommodations registered to the platform, also partnering with 150+ online/offline travel agencies, metasearch, wholesalers and GDS as well as payment systems. HotelRunner is Booking.com Premier Connectivity Partner, Booking.com Top Connectivity Performer for 2018, Airbnb Preferred Software Partner, Agoda Innovative Supplier, Oracle Gold, and Google Hotel Ads Partner.

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Antonia Aguiló – a.aguilo@hotelbeds.com

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Hotelbeds and HotelRunner extend partnership


	Certification follows thorough analysis of Hotelbeds’ carbon footprint by independent body, Carbon Footprint Ltd.
	Company donations for every business travel flight are used to finance carbon neutral projects – and this year Hotelbeds will be supporting a project in China.
	This news follows the recent launch of the Green Hotels Programme, a new initiative to identify, highlight and promote sustainable accommodation within its hotel portfolio.


Palma, Spain, 12 January 2021 – Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, has announced today that for the third consecutive year it has been certified as a Carbon Neutral Organisation by Carbon Footprint Ltd, an independent body that accredits carbon management measurements and best practices for businesses, by offsetting companies’ CO2 emissions.

This prestigious accreditation reflects Hotelbeds’ commitment in the past three years to reduce its environmental impact and ensure long-term sustainability by offsetting the carbon emissions it generates.

During 2018 the company created a programme whereby a fee is paid for every business flight taken by an employee. This is then used to finance a carbon neutral project and both encourage reduction in travel and awareness around the importance of carbon offsetting.

In 2018 the funds raised from this programme were donated to the Portel-Pará Deforestation Project - which is located within Brazil’s Amazon, the largest remaining rainforest on our planet - &nbsp;to help prevent unplanned deforestation.

In 2019 Hotelbeds chose to give the funds to the Renewable Energy Project in India, that manages the installation of solar panels across the country.

This year Hotelbeds will be supporting the Verified Carbon Standard certified Guohua Tongliao Kezuo Zhongqi Phase 1 Wind Power project in China, that will reduce carbon emissions via the displacement of fossil fuels. This project helps to combat climate change and sustains our environment for future generations.

This news follows the recent launch of the Green Hotels Programme, a turn-key solution to bring Hotelbeds and its partners into the green economy and accelerate the transition of the travel industry towards sustainability.

Gareth Matthews, Marketing, Communications and CSR Director at Hotelbeds, said: “We are proud to be certified a Carbon Neutral Organisation for the third consecutive year. This really underscores our sustainable business ethos and sets a great example both to our staff and the wider travel industry.

“As leaders in the travel industry we wanted to be at the forefront of environmental consciousness, inspiring both other companies and even individual travellers, by reducing our emissions where possible and offsetting the rest.”

As part of the certification process, carbon emission calculations – including energy and paper consumptions, waste management, business travel and water supply – were conducted by Hotelbeds, using metrics devised by Carbon Footprint Ltd.

Carbon Footprint Ltd has also successfully completed a verification of the carbon footprint assessment for Hotelbeds. This included spot-checking source data from across the company as well as reviewing the overall methodology.

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About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotel properties across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 25,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain.

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Hotelbeds Media Contact

PR, Media Relations &amp; Corporate Affairs

Antonia Aguiló – a.aguilo@hotelbeds.com

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Hotelbeds certified carbon neutral for the third year running


	With this deal Hotelbeds will increase its retail distribution reach in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, South Africa, Canada, the USA, India, Hong Kong, and Dubai.
	The 180,000 hotel properties that work with Hotelbeds worldwide – many under special terms &amp; conditions – will be available to Flight Centre’s retail clients.
	Flight Centre typically offers long-haul guests that book further in advance, top rated higher value properties, stay for longer, have lower cancellation rates and spend more at the property


Palma, Spain, 15 December 2020 – Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, has announced today a preferred deal with Flight Centre, one of the largest retail travel agencies in Australia, with more than 550 stores spread across 10 countries.

Thanks to this partnership Hotelbeds and its retail channel Bedsonline – that exclusively caters to retail travel agents – &nbsp;will increase distribution reach in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, South Africa, Canada, the USA, India, Hong Kong, and Dubai.

As part of the partnership Flight Centre will connect to Hotelbeds’ product portfolio via the API solutions offered by Hotelbeds.

Flight Centre will gain full access to Hotelbeds’ extensive portfolio of 180,000 hotel properties in 140 countries worldwide providing breadth and depth of range globally – many of which are contracted under special terms and conditions – supplementing Flight Centre’s own direct range. In addition, Flight Centre will also now offer its clients ancillary services from the Beyond The Bed portfolio of Hotelbeds, which comprises 25,000 transfer routes, 18,000 activities in more than 680 destinations, and 30,000 pick-up locations in 170 countries.

Flight Centre joins Hotelbeds’ existing portfolio of 60,000 travel trade buyers, who typically attract non-domestic travellers that book further in advance higher value properties, stay for longer, have lower cancellation rates and spend more at the property.

León Herce, Global Sales Director at Hotelbeds said: “We are very excited to announce our preferred partnership with Flight Centre. Not only is Flight Centre one of the largest retail travel in Australia but it also has many outlets on high streets in leading source markets worldwide.

“This is great news for our 180,000 hotel property partners &nbsp;worldwide, all of whom place great value on retail travel agency guests - not least from long-haul source markets such as Australia, New Zealand, UK, South Africa, Canada, the USA, India, Hong Kong, and Dubai.”

Michelle Connolly, Global Procurement Leader – Leisure at Flight Centre, added: “We’re very excited to start this preferred partnership with Hotelbeds and its retail travel brand, Bedsonline.&nbsp; We have ambitious plans to grow further and extend our sales reach to more international markets, and Hotelbeds is the right partner to do so due to its extensive global portfolio with some of the most special deals and rates. We feel certain that our retail customers will provide the perfect guests for Hotelbeds’ hotel partners, making this a great win-win situation for everyone.”

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About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotel properties across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain.

Follow us:

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Twitter: @Hotelbeds

Facebook: Hotelbeds

Instagram: @hotelbeds_official

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Hotelbeds Media Contact

PR, Media Relations &amp; Corporate Affairs

Antonia Aguiló – a.aguilo@hotelbeds.com

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Hotelbeds signs deal with Flight Centre to increase global distribution reach


	Leading international luxury hotel and resort management company Rosewood Hotel Group gains access to Hotelbeds’ 60,000 travel trade buyers, including travel agents, airlines, points redemption programs and tour operators.
	Clients of Hotelbeds will now have access to preferential rates and availability for Rosewood Hotels &amp; Resorts®, New World Hotels &amp; Resorts®, and KHOS™.
	The deal covers the wholesale and retail distribution of Rosewood Hotel Group’s 41 properties in 19 countries via both Hotelbeds and its retail channel, Bedsonline.


Palma, Spain, 10 December 2020 – Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, has entered into a &nbsp;strategic partnership with Rosewood Hotel Group, a leading international hotel management company.

The strategic partnership provides Rosewood Hotel Group with access to Hotelbeds’ more than 60,000 travel trade buyers from more than 140 source markets worldwide, including tour operators, airlines, points redemption programs and retail travel agencies.

At the same time, Hotelbeds’ clients will gain access to preferential rates and availability across the 41 properties that form Rosewood Hotel Groups’s portfolio in 19 countries throughout North America, Caribbean/Atlantic, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Rosewood Hotel Group encompasses three brands: ultra-luxury Rosewood Hotels &amp; Resorts® in North America, Caribbean/Atlantic, Europe, the Middle East and Asia; upper-upscale New World Hotels &amp; Resorts® in China and Southeast Asia; and KHOS™, a dynamic global business lifestyle hotel brand.

Hotelbeds’ portfolio of 60,000 travel trade buyers offers Rosewood Hotel Group’s properties access to incremental, high value bookings from non-domestic markets that typically book further in advance, pay more per room, stay for longer, cancel less and spend more in the destination.

Through this partnership Rosewood Hotel Group’s properties will distribute hotel rooms through Hotelbeds via both its wholesale channel, which operates under the Hotelbeds brand, and the retail travel agent channel, which operates under the Bedsonline brand – all united under one contract.

Jorge Cortés, Global Sourcing Director at Hotelbeds, commented: “Rosewood Hotel Group has become a leading international luxury hotel and resort owner-operator globally thanks to its ambitious expansion and growing presence in the global luxury hospitality arena. So I am certain that our 60,000 travel trade clients – all of whom will offer Rosewood mostly international, high value guests – will be very excited to gain access to special rates and availability from across Rosewood’s portfolio.”

Benjamin Banh, Vice President Field Sales and Marketing, added: “Rosewood Hotel Group’s strategic partnership with Hotelbeds gives us access to an extensive travel trade distribution network worldwide, expanding our reach to more non-domestic and high-value guests once international travel recovers. This complements well our efforts to build on Rosewood’s strong base of long-stay and corporate guests, and to capture accommodation demand from domestic travellers. We continue on a steady path of growth in the world’s most evocative destinations, and we look forward to working with Hotelbeds to grow incremental bookings.”

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About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotel properties across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 25,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain.

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Twitter: @Hotelbeds

Facebook: Hotelbeds

Instagram: @hotelbeds_official

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About Rosewood Hotel Group 

Rosewood Hotel Group, one of the world’s leading hotel companies, encompasses three brands: ultra-luxury Rosewood Hotels &amp; Resorts® in North America, Caribbean/Atlantic, Europe, the Middle East and Asia; upper-upscale New World Hotels &amp; Resorts in China and Southeast Asia; and KHOS, a dynamic global business lifestyle hotel brand. Its combined portfolio consists of more than 40 hotels in 19 countries. For more information, please visit rosewoodhotelgroup.com.

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Hotelbeds Media Contact

PR, Media Relations &amp; Corporate Affairs

Antonia Aguiló – a.aguilo@hotelbeds.com

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Hotelbeds signs strategic partnership with Rosewood Hotel Group


	The 180k hotels that work with Hotelbeds worldwide are now available to the millions of users of Rappi ‘superApp’ across Latin America – including Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico – and will be available in Argentina, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Ecuador and Costa Rica in 2021.
	Rappi’s clients gain access to Hotelbeds’ extensive portfolio with exclusive rates and conditions from the best hotel properties globally.


Palma, Spain, 2nd December 2020 – Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, has entered into an agreement with Rappi, Latin America’s first ‘superApp’ that recently announced the launch of its new vertical, Rappi Travel.

With this agreement, the 180,000 hotel properties working with Hotelbeds will now be available to millions of Rappi Travel users in Latin America, including: Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, plus corporate travellers from its brand Travel 4Business – with users from Argentina, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Ecuador and Costa Rica gaining access in 2021.

Thanks to this collaboration, Rappi’s clients in Latin America gain access to Hotelbeds’ extensive portfolio in 140 countries worldwide, that offers exclusive rates and conditions from the best hotel properties globally thanks to Hotelbeds’ best-in-class contracting team worldwide.

As Latin America’s first ‘superApp’, Rappi already has millions of users and the company’s newly launched Rappi Travel vertical is a big step towards consolidation as the most relevant application in Latin America.

León Herce, Global Sales Director at Hotelbeds, said: "This agreement with Rappi is an important step in further strengthening our strategic position in Latin America via access to millions of users in the region.

“Rappi is the first ’superApp’ in Latin America and as such is the perfect partner, fitting very well with our model of working with sales channels that provide access to guests that would otherwise be very hard for hotels to reach directly. At the same time, our 180,000 hotels worldwide benefit from this agreement by expanding their distribution reach in the important Latin American outbound market.”

Guido Becher, Global Head of Rappi Travel, added: "We are pleased to gain access to Hotelbeds' extensive product portfolio worldwide. Our users in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, plus corporate travellers, are looking for a great variety of product and Hotelbeds’ portfolio and exclusive offers are a great match for their needs.

“With the first signs of recovery in the market beginning to emerge it is even more essential to have access to the best available tools such as Hotelbeds’ APItude, which for us is the fastest and lightest hotel distribution API in the market. The whole integration process has been easy, fast and intuitive – allowing us to integrate Hotelbeds’ product portfolio easily.”

About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotel properties across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 25,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain.

Follow us:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hotelbeds

Twitter: @Hotelbeds

Facebook: Hotelbeds

Instagram: @hotelbeds_official

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Hotelbeds Media Contact

PR, Media Relations &amp; Corporate Affairs

Antonia Aguiló – a.aguilo@hotelbeds.com

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Hotelbeds increases distribution reach in Latin America with ‘superApp’ Rappi


	Exclusive discounts on flexible rates around the world of up to 60% for arrivals up until the end of 2021.
	Campaign will be distributed across two main channels: the ‘Hotelbeds’ brand and the retail channel, Bedsonline.
	Over 6,000 hotels will participate, including well-known brands such as Hilton, Accor, Hyatt, Marriott, Oyo, Best Western, Four Seasons, Barcelo, Melia, Be Live, IHG, Radisson, Wyndham and Carlton.


Palma, Spain, &nbsp;18 November 2020 – Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, has today announced the launch of a global ‘Black Friday’ campaign.

This campaign will offer exclusive discounts of up to 60% for arrivals up until the end of 2021 and will include flexible rates to provide travellers with complete peace-of-mind.

The exclusive rates will be distributed across Hotelbeds’ two main channels: its wholesale distribution channel that operates under the ‘Hotelbeds’ brand and its retail channel, Bedsonline, that exclusively cater to retail travel agents.

Hotelbeds has worked hard to sign-up hotel properties to participate in the campaign, with over 6,000 hotels joining the promotion, including Hilton, Accor, Hyatt, Marriott, Oyo, Hilton, Best Western, Four Seasons, Barcelo, Melia, Be Live, IHG,&nbsp; Carlton, Radisson, and Wyndham, among others.

This year the Hotelbeds ‘Black Friday’ campaign spans from The Americas to Europe, plus the Middle-East and Asia-Pacific with the following plan:


	In the Americas, the campaign will cover from November the 9th to December the 1st.
	In Mexico the campaign will be known as ‘Buen Fin’ or ‘Buena Semana’ but covering the same booking period as the rest of the Americas.
	In Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific the campaign will start the 23rd of November and it will last until December the 6th.
	In China, Malaysia, and Singapore the campaign will be from November the 4th to the 18th, and it will be promoted as the ‘Single’s Day’ campaign.


León Herce, Sales Director at Hotelbeds, said: “Over the last few years the Black Friday phenomenon has extended beyond the shores of the United States and this year we wanted to ensure that no market was left behind as part of our drive to fuel the recovery of our travel partners everywhere. With this campaign, we hope to inspire our partners’ clients – the end travelers – to go on the holidays they’ve been dreaming of and to reunite with their families and friends with the certainty that the rates are flexible.”

About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotel properties across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimize RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 25,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialize its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain.

Follow us:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hotelbeds

Twitter: @Hotelbeds

Facebook: Hotelbeds

Instagram: @hotelbeds_official

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Hotelbeds Media Contact

PR, Media Relations &amp; Corporate Affairs

Antonia Aguiló – a.aguilo@hotelbeds.com

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Hotelbeds fuels travel recovery with global ‘Black Friday’ campaign


	Aruba Tourism Authority is partnering with the Destination Marketing team at Hotelbeds to promote tourism recovery until the end of August 2021.
	Hotelbeds will attract incremental international visitors to the Caribbean island of Aruba via leveraging the company’s contracting team in the destination to gain special promotional rates and deals.
	The 60,000 travel trade buyers of Hotelbeds – retail travel agents, tour operators, airlines, and points redemption programs – typically provide high-value, international guests that stay longer, book further in advance and spend more in destination.


Palma, Spain, &nbsp;11 November 2020 – Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, has today announced an agreement with Aruba Tourism Authority, the official Destination Marketing and Management Organization (DMMO) for the Caribbean island of Aruba.

As part of the agreement the Destination Marketing team of Hotelbeds will drive incremental tourism arrivals to the region and work with Aruba Tourism Authority on recovery efforts through till the end of August 2021.

The objective of the partnership is for Hotelbeds to market and improve the level of inbound tourism into the Caribbean island by increasing both the overall room nights generated as well as &nbsp;revenue performance.

This will be achieved by attracting incremental visitors to the region from international source markets by leveraging Hotelbeds’ contracting team in Aruba to gain access to special promotional rates and exclusive deals on hotels and activities.

Additionally, via the company’s Bedsonline brand – which distributes solely to travel agents – the campaign will introduce initiatives such as exclusive hotel rates for travel agents and host dedicated training webinars to show how Aruba has adapted to COVID-19 travel and safety measures.

Aruba will benefit from focused promotion to the over 60,000 travel trade buyers – including retail travel agents, tour operators, airlines, and points redemption programs – that work with Hotelbeds in over 140 source markets globally.

Such travel trade buyers typically offer more international arrivals that in turn deliver high-value customers who spend more in destination, stay longer, cancel less, return more often and book further out than typical direct-to-consumer customer profiles.

Gareth Matthews, Marketing &amp; Communications Director at Hotelbeds says: “We are delighted to partner with Aruba Tourism Authority for this recovery campaign. Aruba has many beautiful locations ideally suited for travel even in the current context, and these, combined with the special rates and promotions we are arranging, will be highly appreciated by our large network of travel trade buyers around the world. &nbsp;We are also pleased to highlight to our partners the steps Aruba is taking to welcome back visitors and promote safe travel. Like all of our campaigns, the goal is to drive incremental demand from international markets and provide high-value guests for our hotel partners.”

Edward Malone, North America Director at Aruba Tourism Authority adds: “The Aruba Tourism Authority is pleased to continue our long-term partnership with Hotelbeds in activating high-impact marketing initiatives with travel trade partners. As we maneuver the challenges of COVID-19, our focus is to drive consumer demand while emphasizing the safety and health of travelers to Aruba – as well as showcasing the quality vacation experience that visitors deserve and can look forward to. While we understand that not everyone is ready to travel yet, we also recognize the need for recovery. Travel planning, supporting the travel agent community, and bouncing back to delivering high-value bookings for hotels and attractions is crucial.”

Leveraging the company’s technology, booking platform, and relationships with hoteliers and travel trade buyers globally, Hotelbeds has to date already worked with over 50 tourism boards from around the world.

Partner destinations receive access to the over 60,000 travel trade buyers – such as retail travel agents, tour operators, airlines, and points redemption programs – who together make over 1.5 billion accommodation searches per day via Hotelbeds.

Due to the international reach of Hotelbeds – present in over 140 source markets globally – destination partners also benefit from receiving more international arrivals from hard to access source markets.

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About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotel properties across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 25,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain.

Follow us:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hotelbeds

Twitter: @Hotelbeds

Facebook: Hotelbeds

Instagram: @hotelbeds_official

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Hotelbeds Media Contact

PR, Media Relations &amp; Corporate Affairs

Antonia Aguiló – a.aguilo@hotelbeds.com

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Hotelbeds and Aruba Tourism Authority join forces to boost tourism in the Caribbean

Palma, Spain, 3 November 2020 – Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, has announced today an extension of its existing agreement to provide curated accommodation inventory to Air Canada Vacations, a leading Canadian vacation expert offering a wide selection of vacation packages across Canada.

Building on over ten years of working together, the significantly expanded partnership will provide Air Canada Vacations with a one-stop shop for customers to browse and book vacation packages – with a domestic accommodation inventory covering the entire country and more than 1,200 hotels throughout&nbsp;Canada.

This collaboration allows Air Canada Vacations to enhance its product for travellers by using Hotelbeds’ proprietary dynamic packaging platform to enable customers to build their own holiday packages and tours, with real-time selection of flights for Canadian escapes.

Hotelbeds and Air Canada Vacations’ new extended partnership adds to the over 40 airlines that currently partner with Hotelbeds, reinforcing its position as an ideal strategic partner for airlines to fulfil their non-air ancillary revenues strategy. This partnership also reinforces both companies’ efforts and commitment to help rebuild and restore the Canadian tourism industry.

León Herce, Sales Director at Hotelbeds, commented: “We are delighted to partner with Air Canada Vacations to grow our business together. We look forward to providing Air Canada Vacations’ domestic passengers with a choice selection of the most exclusive and best-priced hotels across Canada. This partnership further reinforces our commitment to our hotel partners in the region by giving them privileged access to Air Canada Vacations’ valued travellers right at the moment in the buying process that they are choosing their destination.”

Nino Montagnese, Managing Director at Air Canada Vacations, added: “We are seeing that Canadians are still interested in travel, with more and more people looking to book their next getaway domestically. We’re very excited to expand our partnership with Hotelbeds to enhance our existing vacation package offering in Canada and provide our customers with a vast selection of accommodation options.”

This news follows Hotelbeds’ recent announcement of a focussed stategy &nbsp;to respond to the strong demand for domestic hotels inthe aftermath of COVID-19, with plans to add an additional 10,000 new properties to its global portfolio of hotels by the end of the year.

As part of that plan Hotelbeds is expanding its hotel portfolio in secondary destinations to cover new leisure properties relevant for domestic travellers; and it is also adding additional property types that are currently more sought after, for example resorts and rural hotels.

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About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotel properties across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain and employs around 5,000 employees across over 60 offices globally.

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About Air Canada Vacations

Air Canada Vacations is a leading Canadian vacation expert offering a wide selection of vacation packages and cruises to destinations across Mexico and the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe, Canada and the USA and is a repeat recipient of the Consumer's Choice Award. Air Canada Vacations offers convenient connectors from 54 Canadian cities, web and mobile check-in and Aeroplan® Miles. Air Canada Vacations packages include flights on board Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge. For more information visit: aircanadavacations.com

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 Hotelbeds and Air Canada Vacations strengthen partnership to fuel Canadian domestic recovery


	Hotelbeds is launching a new initiative to identify, highlight and promote sustainable accommodation within its hotel portfolio.
	Over 15,000 properties are already part of The Green Hotels Programme and are available from today to more than 60,000 B2B travel buying partners worldwide.
	Additionally, Hotelbeds announces it has become a full member of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), the leading global authority in setting and managing standards for sustainable travel &amp; tourism.


Palma, Spain, 27 October 2020 – Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, has announced today the launch of The Green Hotels Programme, a turn-key solution to bring Hotelbeds and its partners to the green economy and accelerate the transition of the travel industry towards sustainability.

In order to focus on establishing a more responsible and sustainable business model, Hotelbeds now has over 15,000 properties within its portfolio certified as sustainable.

These hotels will now be easily identifiable to the more than 60,000 travel trade client partners of Hotelbeds and Bedsonline – including travel agents, tour operators, airlines and point redemption schemes – via this new green filter that will include details of certifications and offer tags.

As part of this initiative, Hotelbeds can confirm that it has become a full member of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), the leading global authority in setting and managing standards for sustainable travel &amp; tourism.

To certify over 15,000 properties as sustainable, Hotelbeds has partnered with global sustainability certification companies to identify fully certified hotel properties following the criteria of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) for hotels.

The criteria are organized around four main themes: effective sustainability planning, maximizing social and economic benefits for the local community,&nbsp;enhancing cultural heritage, and reducing negative impacts on the environment.

Gareth Matthews, Marketing, Communications and CSR Director, at Hotelbeds said: “As the leaders in our sector, we have a clear responsibility to demonstrate to our stakeholders that we operate a responsible, transparent business model and that we take very seriously the environmental impact we have, alongside our commitment to economic and social development around the world. This new project responds to the very real demand that already exists amongst many environmentally conscious travelers, and we will provide simple and effective tools for our travel trade clients to make green choices effortlessly, driving and accelerating change.”

Hotelbeds takes Corporate Social Responsibility very seriously. The Company is focused on and committed to environmentally and socially sustainable business practices that recognize the short and long-term concerns of its stakeholders, whilst integrating sustainability and accountability into the business.

As such in 2019 Hotelbeds published its first annual Corporate Sustainability report, which can be accessed via the Corporate Sustainability section of the company’s website: https://corporate.hotelbeds.com/sustainability

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About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotel properties across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain.

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Hotelbeds launches The Green Hotels Programme to support sustainable tourism


	Hotelbeds provides Magnuson Hotels with access to world’s largest distribution network of travel trade buyers, including 60,000+ tour operators, travel agents, airlines and points redemption schemes.
	Hotelbeds’ clients will benefit from preferential rates and availability at Magnuson’s global properties, including their Magnuson Grand, Magnuson Hotel, M Star Hotel, and an exclusive By Magnuson Worldwide collection brands.
	Agreement makes available Magnuson’s hotels in both Hotelbeds’ wholesale and retail distribution channels.


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Palma, Spain, &nbsp;20 October 2020 – Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, announces today a new strategic agreement with Magnuson Hotels, the fast growing global franchise alternative brand.

This agreement provides Magnuson Hotels with access to Hotelbeds’ high-value distribution network of more than 60,000 travel trade buyers including tour operators, retail travel agents, airlines and loyalty programs across more than 140 source markets worldwide.

Hotelbeds’ portfolio of travel buyers will offer Magnuson Hotels – when the full recovery begins – incremental, high value bookings from non-domestic markets that typically book further in advance, pay more per room, cancel less and spend more at the property.

At the same time, Hotelbeds’ clients will gain access to preferential rates and availability from across Magnuson Hotels' portfolio including their Magnuson Grand, Magnuson Hotel, M Star Hotel, and an exclusive By Magnuson Worldwide collection brands.

As part of this agreement, Magnuson Hotels will distribute its hotel rooms through Hotelbeds’ two main channels: its wholesale distribution channel that operates under the 'Hotelbeds' brand and its retail channel, Bedsonline, that exclusively caters to retail travel agents.

Mark Redmond, Head of Global Chains at Hotelbeds, commented: “We are delighted to partner with one of the biggest independent global chains in the world. With the travel restrictions easing off and the focus now shifting to 2021 bookings, our portfolio of 60,000 travel trade buying partners will allow Magnuson to access more non-domestic, high-value guests from across the world at profitable margins and focus on doing what they do best: providing guests with great value.”

Thomas Magnuson, CEO at Magnuson Hotels, added: “Through the alliance with Hotelbeds we have access to a leading and strategically important B2B distribution network, including both wholesale and the equally important retail distribution worldwide through Bedsonline. While Magnuson has become a dominant force in serving non-leisure business segments, we look forward to working with Hotelbeds to grow our overall bookings even further via high-value reservations from non-domestic guests once international travel demand picks back up again.”

About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotel properties across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain and employs around 5,000 employees across over 60 offices globally.

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About Magnuson Hotels:

Magnuson Hotels, headquartered in London UK and Spokane WA stands as a top 20 global chain. Founded in 2003, Magnuson Hotels gives independently minded hotel owners a way to achieve global brand support at a fraction of the cost of traditional franchise chains. In 2019, the company outperformed the USA STR RevPAR by 10X.

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 Hotelbeds deal expands Magnuson Hotels’ access to 60,000 travel trade buyers


	
	Rally Investco will become the General Sales Agent (GSA) of Bedsonline in the Indonesian market.
	
	Indonesian travel agencies working with Bedsonline will continue booking accommodation, activities, transfers and car-hire via bedsonline.com
	Rally Investco will enable agents to earn reward points as they book hotels, through their own agent incentive programme, Galileo Club.
	The GSA will offer Bedsonline’s local customers a dedicated help desk.


Palma, Spain,&nbsp;19 October 2020 – &nbsp;Bedsonline, the leading global provider of accommodation and complementary travel products exclusively for travel agents,&nbsp;has today reached an agreement with Rally Investco – which collaborates with Galileo Indonesia – to manage the Bedsonline business in Indonesia.&nbsp;

As part of this agreement Rally Investco will be the General Sales Agent (GSA) of Bedsonline in Indonesia.

Indonesian travel agencies working with Bedsonline will continue to book all their accommodation, activities, transfers and car-hire via bedsonline.com.

Rally Investco will now begin to offer to Bedsonline’s local customers:


	A dedicated help desk located in Indonesia and operated in the local language (Bahasa Indonesia). This will include dedicated local telephone numbers which will also help reduce costs for Bedsonline’s customers.
	Access to the rewards programme Galileo Club: Rally Investco, who collaborate with Galileo Indonesia, will enable agents to earn reward points as they book hotels through their own agent incentive programme, Galileo Club. Agents will also be able to earn points as they book flights through the Galileo GDS, meaning all points can be redeemed under one platform.


Hui-Wan Chua, Regional Sales Director, APAC, commented: “The Indonesian market is a top priority for us at Bedsonline and that is why we are very excited to announce that we will appoint Rally Investco as our key strategic partner in the market. Rally Investco also partners with Galileo Indonesia and has over 20 years’ experience in the Indonesian market, thus giving our customers a truly unrivalled offering and service.

“To excel in the ever-changing travel landscape our Indonesian customers deserve a partner that is much more than just a booking engine. Therefore, we have chosen Rally Investco – who are collaborating with Galileo Indonesia – to operate our local Bedsonline business going forward, given their extensive local market knowledge, presence and relationships. Together we look forward to helping our Indonesian travel agent customers grow and prosper.”

Raymond Setokusumo, President Director, Galileo Indonesia also commented: “We are glad to welcome Bedsonline as our new partner in this industry. We believe this partnership will bring a new extended variety of services and programs for all Bedsonline's clients in Indonesia. Furnished with our experience in serving and supporting our clients in the travel industry over the last 20 years, we are confident we will offer added value by making a seamless transition becoming Bedsonline’s General Sales Agent (GSA). We trust that this new collaboration will enlarge the capability of both parties in servicing our valued customers, the travel agents.”

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About Bedsonline

Bedsonline&nbsp;is the leading global provider of accommodation and complementary travel products exclusively catering to travel agents. Through its online platform, it distributes accommodation, excursions, tickets and transfers to more than 50,000 travel agencies backed by local sales teams in over 30 countries covering over 100 markets globally.

The company offers an extensive portfolio of over 180,000 hotels, 25,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities in 185 destination countries worldwide, guaranteeing high availability, competitive prices and unique offers. This portfolio is backed by personalized local service and a powerful yet intuitive booking engine making Bedsonline the defacto partner for many travel agencies around the world.&nbsp;

Bedsonline has focused its strategy in recent years on the expansion of new markets in Europe, America and Asia, such as Germany, the Czech Republic, Mexico, the United States, Colombia, China, Japan and the Philippines. This strategic vision has led the company to occupy a leadership position in its segment.

Bedsonline is part of Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank and business-to-business provider of services to the travel industry globally, headquartered in Palma, Spain.

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Bedsonline and Rally Investco sign strategic partnership


	Partnership follows Thomas Cook’s recent relaunch as a purely online holiday business.
	The 180,000 hotels that work with Hotelbeds worldwide – many under exclusive terms &amp; conditions – will be available to Thomas Cook’s travellers.
	Thomas Cook joins Hotelbeds’ existing portfolio of 60,000 travel trade buyers comprising tour operators, travel agents, airlines and points redemption schemes.


Palma, Spain, &nbsp;1 October 2020 – Hotelbeds, the world’s leading bedbank, today announced a strategic partnership with Thomas Cook, &nbsp;the new online-only holiday business launched recently following the acquisition of the brand by Fosun Tourism Group.

Thanks to this collaboration Thomas Cook will gain access to more than 180,000 unique hotel properties in 140 countries worldwide, many of which are contracted under exclusive terms and conditions by a team of over 1,000 contracting professionals located in the most popular leisure destinations around the world.

Thomas Cook joins Hotelbeds’ existing 60,000 travel trade buyers – such as tour operators, travel agents, airlines and points redemption schemes – who typically book further in advance, pay more per room, stay for longer, have lower cancellation rates and spend more at the property.

León Herce, Global Sales Director at Hotelbeds, said: “All of us at Hotelbeds are immensely pleased to see Thomas Cook relaunching and we’re delighted to be able to support their new model. Hotelbeds has the experience, technology and hotelier relationships available to help Thomas Cook attract travellers with the best possible service and hotel product. We look forward to watching it grow once again into one of Europe’s leading holiday brands.”

Emma King, head of commercial product, added: “When we were developing our new Thomas Cook we wanted to offer our customers the widest possible choice of hotel accommodation – and to be able to do that quickly without the need for direct contracting. Our relationship with Hotelbeds as a strategic bedbank partner, gives our customers access to a huge portfolio of exclusive and competitively priced hotels worldwide. We’re only selling holidays to destinations on the UK government’s travel corridor list, including Turkey, Italy and some parts of Greece. We will update that once travel restrictions change or are lifted. We look forward to growing and scaling our business working alongside Hotelbeds to respond to growing customer demand for holidays.”

Thomas Cook is owned by Fosun Tourism Group, the leader in the leisure tourism industry for families worldwide.

About Hotelbeds 

Hotelbeds is the world’s leading bedbank.

In a fragmented and complex travel landscape, Hotelbeds provides over 180,000 hotel properties across the globe with access to high-value, complementary distribution channels that significantly increase occupancy rates and optimise RevPAR – whilst not competing with the hotelier’s direct distribution strategy.

Hotelbeds does this by offering hoteliers access to a network of over 60,000 hard-to-access B2B travel buyers such as tour operators, retail travel agents, airline websites, and loyalty schemes in over 140 source markets worldwide. These channels provide hotel partners with returning guests that book further in advance, cancel less, spend more in-destination and stay longer.

In addition to accommodation, Hotelbeds is also the world’s largest B2B seller of travel ancillaries, offering 24,000 transfer routes and 18,000 activities, as well as attractions, tickets and car hire. Operating under the ‘Beyond the Bed’ product line, it provides both hoteliers and travel distribution partners with an efficient platform and powerful tools to easily integrate and commercialise its leading portfolio of high-margin products.

The company is headquartered in Palma, Spain and employs around 5,000 employees across over 60 offices globally.

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Twitter: @Hotelbeds

Facebook: Hotelbeds

Instagram: @hotelbeds_official

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About Thomas Cook UK

In September 2020, Thomas Cook, one of the most recognisable names in travel, returned as an online-only travel business following the acquisition of the brand by international conglomerate Fosun Tourism Group.

With Atol-protected beach and city breaks, the new Thomas Cook allows customers to design their own their trip according to their budget, needs and specification.&nbsp;&nbsp;

At launch, the company will sell destinations that are on the FCO-exempt list to give more certainty to customers who want to travel. Customers will be able to choose from room-only to all-inclusive options, across three, four and five-star hotels.

The company has a team of UK-based travel advisors available 10am-10pm 7 days a week and via chat on its website and Messenger – on-holiday customer care is available 24/7.

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PR, Media Relations &amp; Corporate Affairs

Antonia Aguiló – a.aguilo@hotelbeds.com

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Thomas Cook media contact

+44&nbsp;20 3966 8492

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Hotelbeds and Thomas Cook sign strategic partnership

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