www.ceotodaymagazine.com CEO Today United Kingdom Awards 2023 17 currently undertaking a lot of development work on our webservices area to enable hotels to gain greater levels of direct business, which we will roll out toward the end of 2023. In addition to this, we are expanding our API layer in association with Sabre, with whom we have a great commercial partnership. This allows various PMS or OTAs to plug in to us directly, which is particularly helpful for hotels who are using niche PMS players who we can work with easily to provide their customers with HotelREZ’s distribution. We have partnered with PMS globally, including the likes of Mews and Guestline, Apaleo and Cloud Beds, with many others in the pipeline. We are finalising the details on our powering of a luxury soft brand, to be launched this year. It will offer hotels an alternative to traditional market players at competitive price points and ROI, yet is exclusive, so will operate on an invitation-only basis. It may cause some disruption, which is a good thing – it is always good to offer more choice. This is a luxury product underpinned by HotelREZ’s full-stack representations and distribution solutions. What is your vision for the future of HotelREZ? HotelREZ will continue to grow, continue to support our members and continue to find new exciting markets for them through our worldwide partnerships – we remain focused on growing their incremental revenues and ROI. The reality is we have so much to shout about – more, perhaps, than many of our peers. So it is time to raise the profile. Without ego I can say we are truly great at what we do and immensely proud of what has been achieved and what is coming… so watch this space! What does this award mean for you? I am of course very flattered and grateful to receive an award from CEO Today. To be recognised after years of developing and growing what is now one of the world’s leading global representation companies is wonderful. It has been quite a journey, but my team and the loyalty of customers are why we are in the position we find ourselves in. Can you tell us anything about your plans for development in the latter half of 2023? Well, in the last year we developed and rolled out a new RFP and content management solution, ‘REZtoMarket’, to hotels that enabled them to easily manage all this from one place. This has exponentially increased the number of corporate and other marketing RFP’s available to hotels. That said, we have quite a year ahead of us. We are Much of our growth has been organic – we have never undertaken any funding rounds and remain a private and highly successful company. Mark Lewis, CEO HotelREZ Hotels & Resorts London & Newark Tel: +44 20369 99936 E: info@hotelrez.com (new members) press@hotelrez.com (enquires) www.hotelrez.com
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