Farecast – Hotel Search Tool

Farecast is an airline fare comparison site that has released a beta version of its new hotel rate search tool. It presents data on the basis of rate histories for each hotel and is, therefore, able to identify high/low rate scales for hotels in each search universe. The search results indicate whether rates quoted for your selected date range are high/low or average based upon the hotels rate history.

European Business Hotels

Don’t miss the CNBC European Business’ edition on Hotels. In particular, there are two articles worthy of attention by planners working in European markets as well at hoteliers competing for market share there. First is a high level listing of what is reported to be Europe’s 25 top performing business hotels. We have added the Web links to these hotels in the sidebar to the right. Peruse the sites to get a sense of what market leaders are doing with their Web presences to appeal to and support meeting planning (e.g., venue details and photography of meeting spaces within the respective properties). Also, see the discussion on hot trends in European hotels.