To get the best hotel deal one need to evaluate and understand the circumstances in which hotel industry is functioning. Hotel and tourism industry in is very complicated and we need to understand with their perspective that why they will sell hotel rooms at cheapest price and why they will increase the hotel room rates.
Hotel in India normally working with the first-come first-served approach for accepting the booking for hotel rooms. But this approach always keep them in tizzy while accepting the hotel booking at lower cost because they are not sure that many hotel rooms can be sold at particular price and in how many days.
Other method which they use is comparison of hotel room rates while accepting the hotel booking. This practice is normally happening in luxury Indian hotels where they get hotel room reservation request from various channels like online travel sites selling hotel rooms in India or traditional travel agents. They accept the hotel room bookings from the channel from where they get the best rate for the hotel room. Which mean higher revenue hotel bookings will be confirmed on priority basis. On the same concept we have seen the launch of travel Meta search engine like www.chaklo.com which gives comparison of hotel rates to the consumers from more than 900,000 hotels worldwide.
Third and the new method of selling hotel rooms is that hotel room sold by bidding in India. This is the new sale channel of Indian hotels launched by website Bid2travel.com. It’s absolute fresh and unique approach for selling vacant hotel rooms. This can help the hotels to sell their vacant hotel rooms and the consumers who are trying book hotel rooms and looking for best last minute hotel deals. B2T (Bid2travel.com) is based on the philosophy that “A vacant room is a loss of revenue for ever”. Hotels are selling their hotel rooms on bid2tarvel at 1/3 of the standard price of the hotel because this enable them to get rid off their distress hotel room inventory and consumers are able to book hotels at last minute (next 14 days) at discounted price.
B2T has become the name for booking empty hotel rooms in luxury Indian hotels at lowest possible rates. Hotel owners are also happy with this site because they are able to make at least 30-40% revenue from these empty hotel rooms which otherwise would have gone to waste. Consumers are also giving bid thump up to the site where they are bidding on hotel rooms at the price they are ready to pay. When they place a bid on hotel rooms they are having the hotel budget in mind and they bid for hotel rooms according to their own budget. So they bid for hotel rooms for cheap last minute hotels.
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