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CBTA Allied Square Table: Travel Management Trends and 2013 Hotel RFP Preview Mary Ann McNulty Executive Editor The BTN Group CBTA Allied Square Table: Travel Management Trends and 2013 Hotel RFP Preview
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|2 AGENDA It’s Still The Economy …But Now Global Impact Corporate Travel Demand, Supply Corporate Travel Contracting Policies, Mandates and More Hot Topics: Open Booking, Mobile, ? RFP Season Preview
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|3 FEDS: TRAVEL STRONG US Federal Reserve: travel and tourism activity "strong" across many reporting districts, with hotel and convention bookings continuing to "exceed last year's pace.“ “Overall economic activity continued to expand at a modest to moderate pace in June and early July. The Atlanta, St. Louis and San Francisco districts reported modest growth, while Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City and Dallas described economic activity as advancing moderately.”
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|4 ECONOMIC INDICATORS Fed Says: Deceleration Amadeus CEO: “Next 6-12 Months Tough” Low Job Growth Election Wait-and-See Oil prices and impact Will Corps Slow Travel Spending??
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|5 ECONOMIC INDICATORS Up: AirPlus, Marriott, UK Guild of TMCs Amex corporate travel spending down 4%, 2 nd quarter in a row HRG: TRX down 3%, spending down 7% ARC: mega TRX in June -6.5%, largest drop in 32 months
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|6 AMEX TRAVEL SALES SLOW
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|7 ARC: DECLINING AIR SALES
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|8 HEADLINES: Booking Volume Pegasus: Hotel reservations booked via GDS in June declined 10.6% worldwide, by 13.9% in North America. Why? Cycles Average rates paid for hotels through GDS up 3% globally year-over-year, by 6% in NA Outside NA, average rate down by 1.7% as June GDS bookings fell 5.9%
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|9 GBTA: Impact of Uncertainty
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|10 AT TRAVELER LEVEL
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|11 Mandates & Policy Compliance Policy compliance focus last 18 months Non-reimbursement, partial reimbursement Pre-trip approvals, audits, communications Is 50% good enough?
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|12 Managed vs. Unmanaged Open Booking concepts Supplier site bookings, but… At negotiated rates Data collected Concur, ProcureApp, GDSX
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|13 Mobile and More Mobile growth adoption skyrocketing Surpassing other adoption Booking, expense reporting, messaging Still, numbers low
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|14 2013 Hotel RFP Preview Hotels: Corporate rate hikes 7% Buyers: Expect increases closer to 3.5% ~ Bjorn Hanson, NYU Tisch Center for Hospitality divisional dean
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|15 RFP Considerations Are negotiated rates way to go? Best way to secure, load, audit rates? Which RFP tool to use? Benefits of negotiated rates?
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|16 HEADLINES: Marriott Marriott CEO: Rate increases in high single- digit percentages in upcoming negotiations. Corp. rates remain “meaningfully lower than in 2007.” Rates +4.3% in June quarter vs. March
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|17 HEADLINES: Starwood Starwood CEO: 2013 Corp. Rate Hikes To Outpace Last Year’s Starwood ADR Last Quarter: + 3.8% in North America + 1.1% in Latin America - 7% in Europe - 4.5% in Africa and Middle East Flat in Asia-Pac
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|18 INTL. BIZ TRAVEL FORECAST
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|19 CWT 2013 COST FORECAST
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