The Hotel Sunday #1

                                                                                           

I have launched a new section on Hotel Blogs called "The Hotel Sunday" which will recap what has been going on in the week. Hope you enjoy it and don't hesitate to comment.

Monday: Le Web3 - the 3rd edition of the Web conference organized by Loic Le Meur - starts in Paris with more than 1200 participants. Brent Hoberman, co-founder of Lastminute speaks at one of the panel on Ecommerce 2.0 (WAYN?). A lot of feedback is available on Technorati.

Tuesday: Sabre Holdings - the parent company behind theAmerican GDS (Global Distribution System), Lastminute.com, Travelocity and more - has been acquired for  approximately $5 billion by 2  private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and TPG (Texas Pacific Group). This is the second acquisition in the GDS world, 3 days after the buyout of Worldspan by Travelport for $1.4 billion. 

Wednesday: Best Western annouces an XML interface with their online intermediary partner Hotel.de/TravelRes and cut the middle man, the switch company Pegasus in the deal. We seem to see more of those interfaces between hotel chains and online  intermediairies (Premier Travel Inn and BSI).

Thursday: I discover that Accor has a new hotel brand "All Seasons" with a new opening in Thailand   



Friday: Metro reveals the opening a new exceptional hotel in Turkey - the Adam & Eve Hotel - rooms start at £240 a night. It has one of the largest pool in the
world (104mX9m).

Comments

[Mathieu Ouellet]

Good idea Guillaume! I'll be here every sunday for sure!

[pascal]

good stuff I like it. BTW i have to say that WAYN.com site can be really useful here...great idea a lot of members :))

[London Sightseeing Tours]

You should really start this up again as it is a fantastic idea and with the current economic crunch UK residents will be looking for travel in the UK more and the better the offers the more likely they are to considor a weekend break.