| Corporate or business travelers often account for a | | | | ease by signing up for Lanyon. |
| significant and continuous source of revenue for many | | | | With Lanyon, you can easily input room rate |
| hotels. If your hotel draws in a large segment of | | | | information in an online database and respond to |
| business travelers, you know that consortia and travel | | | | corporate and travel agency consortia RFPs (Request |
| buyers keep a sharp eye on travel websites and other | | | | for Proposal). It will eliminate significant time from the |
| distribution channels to ensure that the rate available to | | | | RFP process by joining all relevant data and |
| them is competitive and fair. | | | | processes together in one view and will enable you to |
| Imagine if these corporate travel managers and | | | | capture more global corporate travel business. This |
| buyers visit a dozen different travel websites and | | | | arrangement will also provide corporate travel |
| encounter extremely different rates or lower room | | | | managers and consortia unprecedented access to |
| rates than their negotiated corporate rates. This | | | | preferred rates at thousands of independent hotels |
| disparity of rates will them question the integrity of | | | | and luxury properties worldwide. |
| your rates, which will undermine the value of your | | | | The Benefits |
| hotel's brand and the value of your hotel's corporate | | | | 1. All rates, property information, bid information and |
| program. It may lead them to seek out competing | | | | status of bids can be accessed from your |
| hotels that will provide them with better rates. | | | | GDS-Lanyon account home page |
| As you can see, any significant disparity of your | | | | 2. Easily identify bids which are approaching their bid |
| corporate room rates across channels can cause a | | | | deadline or have recently been requested by the |
| revenue-generating client (organization) to seek out a | | | | corporation on the home page |
| new hotel business partner. So, it is critical to maintain | | | | 3. Compare Negotiated Rates to Rack and Corporate |
| rate parity to protect your relationship with all of your | | | | Rates quickly and easily by creating an excel file with |
| distribution partners, including hotel franchisors, meeting | | | | all relevant information |
| planners, travel agencies, corporate clients and online | | | | 4. Reduce the time required to complete and approve |
| travel companies. | | | | a bid with the intuitive "bid wizard" |
| Maintaining accurate and competitive rates, however, is | | | | 5. Automatic built-in checks ensure that all information |
| not an easy task, as you have to remember each | | | | required by the corporation to support the bid is |
| individual channel's login process, markup methods, | | | | completed |
| contract terms, different ways to access and change | | | | To summarize, by signing up for Lanyon, you can |
| rates, price rounding method and website exceptions | | | | complete consortia and corporate accounts easily and |
| for dozens of different internet channels. | | | | extract many more benefits from your GDS channel. |
| Now any hotel using Unirez can manage this issue with | | | | |