If you've spent any amount of time in B2B hospitality, then you're familiar with the corporate travel RFP process - a necessary but heavily administrative annual practice by which companies and hotels negotiate corporate travel rates for the upcoming year(s).
Hotel sourcing and management is one of the most complex processes travel buyers and hotels must wrap their heads around, especially for global programs using thousands of properties around the world.
And although the industry has adapted by leaps and bounds to optimize the guest experience, this grueling annual - and in some cases, always on - process has stubbornly resisted modernization...at great cost to everyone involved.
Let's talk about that.