Growing Trends in Business Travel and Tourism Sectors

Running head: CORPORATE EVENTS
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Growing Trends in the Business Travels
and Tourism Sectors
Source: (Chibili 2017)
Business travels is one of the major
aspects of the Hotel and the hospitality
Industry. In order to give a boost to the
hospitable sector the hotels often arrange for
the International trade fairs and the
corporate events. These events have to be
conducted in areas that give people feeling
corporate ambiances. There are also many
other factors that the big corporate hotel
industries have to take into account. The
hotels will have to use many strategies that
will be helping them to attract attention from
business travelers. It has to be noted in this
context that the hotels must take strategies
like last minutes booking, last minute online
cancellations, seasonal offers, free discounts,
and others. There are many well-known
hotels that conduct all the important travel
meets and the occasions.
Figure1: Inbuilt Wifi in Hotels
Source: (Amankwah‐Amoah et al.,
2018)

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Marriot Hotels is one of the well-
known hotels in the UK. They are well
known for providing an enthralling
experience to their guests. They invest in
their R&D teams so that they can get all the
possible resources in order to upgrade their
services. They have to make sure that none
of their guests are getting any areas of
complaints. Marriot Hotels in the UK have
also successfully developed its corporate
events services. In other words, they have
tried their level best in arranging proper
accommodations for the guests who would
purchase their services for any important
business meets or corporate events.
Marriot hotel is one of the most well-
known hotels that operate in the UK. They
have about 470 hotels working over a large
number of areas ac cross the world. They are
trying their level best to meet up with all the
changing needs demands of their customers;
in order to do these, they have also started
strengthening their travel and tourism
aspects. There are many important business
activities that take place all around the world
and attended by people. There are many
important events like trade fairs, seminars
and conferences, and many other such
activities. However, the hotel and the
hospitality sectors keep in mind that these
business travels are not like the normal
travels made by people. People usually go
on business travels in order to attend some
unimportant meetings or to the fake part in
some of the International conferences that
take place. As a result of this, the hotels
have o keep some other other kinds of
arrangements ready for these guests. They
keep the arrangements like inbuilt wifi or the
other uninterrupted internet systems. Apart
from this, they also have made sure that they
are being able to provide SMART
technological access to the tourists who are
coming for the business meets or other such
international conferences and meetings.

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Figure 2: Inbuilt Wifi in Hotels
Source: (Derudder and Witlox, 2016)
The travel and tourism sectors are
also found in-depth research and analysis in
order to match up to the needs and demands
of the business customers. In order to do
this; they have to keep an eye upon the
recent trends that are developing in the
business travel and tourism sectors. Some of
the recent trends that have been noted in the
business travel sector increase in
last ,minutes bookings, advance or
prepaid bookings, new destination visits
and many other such aspects. The last
minutes booking trends are increasing at a
very rapid rate as the people all over the
world are looking for the easiest and the best
possible service. Particularly in the case of
business travels, the guests are always under
huge work pressure.
They have the pressure of going out
to some new place and taking part in some
of the most prestigious International
meetings. Thus they often do not get much
time in booking their tickets beforehand.
Often they are not sure about the exact dates
on which these business meetings or the
conferences are about to be held.
In order to get the information about
the exact dates they often have to delay their
dates of booking the tickets. Often these
business travelers book their tickets only 13
to 14 days before their date of traveling is