Chris Davis

1 day ago | businesstravelnews.com | Chris Davis

Lodging Total first-quarter U.S. room nights booked under corporate negotiated rates increased slightly year over year, according to a new report by travel technology companies Amadeus and Cendyn. U.S. hotel room nights booked in Q1 using negotiated rates increased 1.2 percent year over year, according to data from Amadeus' Demand360 platform.

3 days ago | businesstravelnews.com | Chris Davis

BCD Travel will become a reseller of Amadeus' Cytric Easy booking tool, the travel management company announced Monday. Cytric Easy is a version of Amadeus' Cytric booking and expense platform that is designed to operate within the Microsoft Teams platform.

6 days ago | businesstravelnews.com | Chris Davis

First-quarter Choice Hotels International's systemwide business travel revenue per available room increased 10 percent year over year, the company said Thursday, boosted by Choice's increasing share of upscale and extended-stay properties and what the company called a "resilient" corporate customer profile. Business travelers comprised 40 percent of Choice's first-quarter business, president and CEO Patrick Pacious said on a Thursday earnings call, which he said is "well balanced." Despite...

1 week ago | businesstravelnews.com | Chris Davis

First-quarter U.S. hotel bookings made using HotelHub technology dropped nearly 7.8 percent year over year, according to the company. The decline, which it called "striking," was an outlier among other large Western countries, according to HotelHub, which provides travel management companies with hotel booking technology. Total global first-quarter bookings "changed little" year over year at more than 1.9 million, according to HotelHub.

1 week ago | businesstravelnews.com | Chris Davis

After a first quarter in which its systemwide business transient revenue per available room increased 2 percent year over year, Marriott International on Tuesday maintained its full-year 2025 forecast for the segment even as it reduced its overall projection due to "an uncertain macroeconomic environment." Marriott CFO Leeny Oberg forecast full-year business transient RevPAR could be "up low single digits" from 2024 levels, matching the projection she issued one quarter earlier.  Marriott...