Corporate Travel booking "Your Rate"...
Jan 17, 2017, 3:19 pm
#1
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: San Jose , CA , USA
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Corporate Travel booking "Your Rate"...
I apologize if this is covered in depth elsewhere... I did do a search and cannot find relevant thread...
Please could somebody please clarify for me whether a 'Corporate Travel" agent is able to make a "Your Rate" booking, providing I give them my IHG member #... ?
IHG are telling me NO, yet when I search on the web, I find statements that IHG have supposedly made that seem to contradict this...
Statements like:
“IHG greatly values our travel agency relationships. Over the coming weeks, we are working to ensure that Your Rate by IHG Rewards Club is available in the GDS as we know this is a critical booking channel for our travel partners. These rates will also be commissionable for travel agents.”
I am confused...
Please could somebody please clarify for me whether a 'Corporate Travel" agent is able to make a "Your Rate" booking, providing I give them my IHG member #... ?
IHG are telling me NO, yet when I search on the web, I find statements that IHG have supposedly made that seem to contradict this...
Statements like:
“IHG greatly values our travel agency relationships. Over the coming weeks, we are working to ensure that Your Rate by IHG Rewards Club is available in the GDS as we know this is a critical booking channel for our travel partners. These rates will also be commissionable for travel agents.”
I am confused...
Jan 18, 2017, 8:56 pm
#2
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Motown
Programs: DL, WN, AA, IHG Diamond, Hertz 5*
Posts: 3,408
It sounds like the "your rate" rates are not yet available in any GDS. If those rates are included, then they can be booked by your corporate travel agency. I would also expect that if your company has a negotiated rate with IHG brands, that would be lower than the member rate.