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Cheap Paris Hotels



Paris is the capital of France and is also known as “The City of Lights”. Paris is one of the most beautiful and romantic cities in the world and has attracted millions of tourists from all over the world each year. The city has very beautiful landscapes. Apart from the charming streets to delicious cuisines, many people come to Paris to fall in love.

Paris is not a cheap city to live in and is certainly not a recommended destination for economic vacation. There are many hotels in Paris to meet different budgets. If you come to Paris to explore the city and only use the hotel to rest at night, then there are many cheap Paris hotels to choose from.

The Best Western Mercedes Hotel is a hotel which costs less than $100 per night. It might be an excellent choice for budget conscious travellers. This 3-Star hotel is conveniently located at the heart of Paris and close to Parc Monceau. The Arc de Triomphe is a nearby tourist attraction. This hotel has 3 floors with 37 guest rooms and was established since 1930. The rooms are equipped with basic facilities like shaving mirrors, toiletries, hair dryers, phones, newspapers, televisions with satellite channels and free wireless internet access. The hotel does not offer anything fanciful but the room is comfortable enough for a good rest at night.

The Hotel Auteuil Tour Eiffel is another 3-Star hotel which costs less than $100 per night. This hotel is located in Paris with a few nearby tourist attractions such as the Pont de Grenelle, the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower. The hotel has a business centre with small meeting rooms. For dining options, there is a restaurant and bar at the hotel. The hotel rooms are well furnished and come with standard facilities like televisions with cable channels, direct-dial phones, room safes, bathtubs and hair dryers. If you need irons and ironing boards, extra towels and even wake-up calls, simply contact the hotel staff for assistance.

Hotel rates in Paris can easily range from $250 to $600 per night. However, if you were to do some research, you might be able to find hotels that are close to your budgets. The internet is the best tool to obtain all the information you need for your trip. Most people will not spend too much on lodging as they would prefer to spend the money on exploring the city and enjoying the beautiful sights of Paris.

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Hotel GDS Connectivity Only Works When You Work



It happens very often. A hotel starts with GDS Connectivity, and then sits back. The hotel waits the 6 or 12 months of the initial contract, and then calls its representative to say: “We do not get any reservations, we want to cancel.”

Because often it is not understood that this connectivity is a marketing tool. As with any tool, it needs to be used. Compare it to buying a car. You can buy a Mercedes, or a Rolls for that matter, and there it is, a shiny status symbol at the front door. But if you do not use it, or didn’t even know you needed a drivers license, do you think: “It’s useless”?

A good GDS representative will always offer you a training. They will tell you how to manage the system and how to make the most of it. Never hesitate to ask for that training. And, if you did not understand it the first time round, ask for a second training.

Any representative will always be more than happy to provide you with that training. Because the better you understand how it works, the more reservations you will attract, and that again is very good for the representative.

Depending on the quality of the representation, lots of work and thought will go into the revenue management. But if you as a hotel marketing manager do not your part of the work, this representative can only do or mean so much.

In the end, it is the hotel that is the pilot. Opening and closing availability, offering different rate plans, learning to play with these rate plans… All that might seem difficult or confusing in the beginning. But the more you start to understand the possibilities, the more you will start to like to know more, experiment more, until it becomes a passion.

Do not see that part of marketing as work. In my experience it were always those hotels that were enthused, that almost saw it as a game of Monopoly, that got the best results. Being on the GDS gives a hotel world wide exposure to almost up to 400.000 travel agents, so it is a wonderful marketing tool. But never forget it is just that, a tool, so it is in your best interest as a hotel to actually to start understanding it, and using it.