Στρατηγική συνεργασία μεγάλης εμβέλειας ανακοίνωσαν πριν από λίγο ο Thomas Cook, με την θυγατρική εταιρία παροχής ψηφιακών ταξιδιωτικών υπηρεσιών του παγκόσμιου κολοσσού Webjet Ltd, Sunhotels.
Στο πλαίσιο της συμφωνίας, η Sunhotels, σε απευθείας σύνδεση διαμονή Webjet του, θα αναλάβει την ευθύνη για την ανεύρεση και υπογραφή συμβολαίων με τα ξενοδοχεία και γενικότερα την ορθή λειτουργία όλης της αλυσίδας.
Η συμφωνία βασίστηκε στην επιτυχημένη συνεργασία που Sunhotels ήδη έχει με την Thomas Cook, στις σκανδιναβικές αγορές.
Ως μέρος της νέας συμφωνίας, η Thomas Cook θα μεταφέρει περίπου 3.000 συμβάσεις ξενοδοχείων στην Sunhotels, τα οποία θα προστεθούν στο υπάρχον απόθεμα ξενοδοχείο Sunhotels των 75.000 ξενοδοχείων σε όλο τον κόσμο που θα προσφέρεται επίσης για την Thomas Cook, ως μέρος της συμφωνίας.
Στην Ελλάδα η Sunhotels έχει εξαιρετικά σημαντική παρουσία στους μεγαλύτερους ελληνικούς τουριστικούς προορισμούς, ενώ τα κεντρικά της γραφεία βρίσκονται στη Μαγιόρκα διατηρώντας κάποια στελέχη στον εμπορικό τομέα στην χώρα μας.
Η συνεργασία αυτή θα επιτρέψει την Thomas Cook να επικεντρωθεί στην ανάπτυξη της προσφοράς διαφοροποιημένων διακοπών στους πελάτες του, ενώ ταυτόχρονα θα παρέχει στους πελάτες ένα ευρύτερο φάσμα και την επιλογή περισσότερων ξενοδοχείων με πιο αποτελεσματικό τρόπο.
Από την πλευρά της η Sunhotels θα αναλάβει επίσης την ευθύνη για τη διαχείριση μιας βελτιωμένης διαδικασίας ελέγχου της υγιεινλης και της της ασφάλειας των ξενοδοχείων, εξασφαλίζοντας μεγαλύτερη ασφάλεια και συνέπεια στην ποιότητα της προσφοράς του πελάτη.
Το θέμα έχει πάρει μεγάλες διαστάσεις στο διεθνή τύπο.
Ένα ρεπορτάζ των FT ακολουθεί:
Thomas Cook strikes hotel sourcing deal with Webjet
UK tour operator Thomas Cook has struck a deal with Sunhotels, a group that started out in 2002 helping Scandinavian travel agencies find accommodation in European beach resorts, that will see it outsource certain work involving finding and drawing up contracts with hotels that will be offered to Thomas Cook customers who book holidays through its so-called “complimentary” business.
Under the deal Sunhotels – which was bought by Australian online travel agent Webjet in 2014 – will take responsibility for sourcing and contracting hotels that will make up the “majority” of accommodation offered through Thomas Cook’s complimentary business. The UK tour operator describes its complimentary business as that part of its services that gives customers greater choice and flexibility when choosing their holiday.
The latest deal comes on top of an existing partnership between Thomas Cook and Sunhotels in the Nordic markets.
Thomas Cook says the agreement will allow it to concentrate on the core part of its holidays business “while at the same time providing customers with a wider range and choice of complementary hotels in a more efficient way”. It said:
As part of the new deal, Thomas Cook will transfer around 3,000 hotel contracts from across the group to Sunhotels. These will be added to Sunhotels’s existing hotel inventory of 75,000 hotels across the world which will also be offered to Thomas Cook as part of the agreement.Sunhotels will also take responsibility for managing an improved health and safety audit process, ensuring greater certainty and consistency in the quality of the customer offering.The move represents an important step forward in Thomas Cook’s group-wide transformation programme, the New Operating Model. By moving the direct contracting for complementary hotels to a trusted partner, Thomas Cook will be able to better harmonise and simplify its IT platforms and business processes across its 15 source markets, delivering cost savings by reducing the complexity in its business.
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The climate for some tour operators has deteriorated this year as terrorist attacks and unrest in previously popular destinations such as Turkey have affected demand for holidays. Tour giants such as Tui – which owns the Thomson and First Choice brands – have instead been offering more holidays in “traditional” destinations such as southern Spain.
The group’s chief executive, Peter Fankhauser, said of the Webjet deal:
Entering this new relationship with Webjet will transform the way in which Thomas Cook offers a wide choice of hotels to customers. It provides us with a low-cost production platform for our complementary offer across all our source markets, enabling us to streamline our systems and processes while at the same time ensuring greater certainty over the quality of hotels that we offer our customers. This frees us up to focus on growing our differentiated holiday offering, the area where we know Thomas Cook can really make a difference.
