A Call To Arms For the Travel Industry
So like many of you, about 2 years ago we started hearing about some new influenza type virus coming out of China….
And who would have foreseen what has happened since. Well, let’s put that behind us now and start looking forward. We’ve all got stories to tell, but we’ve adapted, we’ve changed, we may even have left the industry we love. And some of us may have come back.
But the thing that unites us? We love to travel. It’s why we started working in the travel industry. The experiences, the perks, the social side, the fun – well, pretty much everything except the salary eh?
Well, it’s time to start travelling again – or at the very least, it’s time to start planning. It might not be for that round the world trip, we might not be interested in booking that campervan in New Zealand just yet. It might even be that long delayed trip to the Cavern Club in Liverpool, that distillery in Islay, that island in Greece your colleague recommended – or just a week in Dubai as let’s face it, it’s fairly reliably open to tourists at the moment.
So, let’s get re-invigorated – let us provide the inspiration. That’s right – we’re back! It’s quite simple – we’re hoping to provide ideas, and if you know what you want already – the rewards, the savings – the ability to cut your costs with the best Travel Industry Discounts out there.
We’re going to work through every hotel brand and chain, every unique offer and put them in front of you (that’s because, like you we work in the industry – so you’re quite capable of booking it yourself!). But this is a team effort. Yes, we started this project to share all the best industry deals that were out there – however, your contributions help.
Whether you’re a travel agent that has come across a great industry deal, work for a hotel chain that wants to reward those who have supported you in the last 2 years, an airline or hotel rep – let us know, let us share your offers.
How can you help us help you?
Share those offers you’ve come across:
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Share our details with your colleagues.
That’s it. Look out for loads of updates in the days & weeks to come!
Jon, Richard & Sam (The TID team!)
Village Hotels – New Offers
Village Hotels – a UK Based chain with hotels in 27 locations (predominantly city / out of city based – with 4 alone in Manchester) has 2 just launched 2 offers that may be of interest. They are not exclusively for the UK Travel Industry, but can offer excellent value, so we’re bringing them to your attention!
The Family / Couples ‘almost’ all-inclusive package:
“Enjoy a 3-night family break including breakfast, lunch and dinner from just £359 for 2 adults, and up to 2 children. Or, ditch the kids and stay as a couple from £299. This unmissable offer is available to book from now – 31st August, for stays between the 21st May – 5th September 2021.”
This is an exclusive offer for their Booking Revolution Members, so make sure you join up.
Sunday night stays from £50 with £40 credit to spend on food!
“Book to stay Sunday’s, from 04/07/2020 – 30/12/2021. Subject to availability. Sunday Special rate is available for Sunday night only. Rate includes a £40 dining allowance to spend on food in the Pub & Grill only. One £40 allowance will be available per room per stay. “
– Village Hotels Locations here
– Village Hotels Offers here
Note: Village Hotels do charge for lots of extras, but if you join their Booking Revolution club you get free Wi-Fi, parking, entry to theirs state-of-the-art gyms, pools and use of a VWorks Hot Desk.
Deal Recap
Link: Village Hotels
Details: Full Board 3 night offers from £299 for 2, or £349 for a family of 4 and Sunday Night Stays from £50 including £40 dining allowance
Book By: Book by August 31st 2021
Eligibility: No eligibility requirements – available for all!
Potential Savings: Well, if you’re planning to stay on a Sunday it can be incredible value, or want a summer family break without worrying about where you’re going to eat – it’s great!
Ease Of Use: Very straightforward
Just like travel (hopefully), we’re back!
Well, hasn’t that been a tumultuous year for everyone in travel.
First let us say that the most important thing is that we hope you’re all safe and well. We appreciate that many people who were working in travel this time last year no longer are. It’s been tough for all of us. Redundancies. Furloughing (who in the UK knew what that meant in 2019?!). And many many hours working long hours for little rewards for our clients.
As we start finding our way through a maze of tiers, traffic lights, advisories and PCR Testing, many of us are planning our travels for 2021 and beyond. And, boy do we deserve it some time off, some pampering, and a chance to relax without worrying about refunding.
So, it’s only fair that we start putting in some time to give you some inspiration, ideas, and most importantly savings. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be adding some new offers, and working through the main hotel Travel Industry Offers to make sure they are working, and update where they are.
Remember though, this is a joint effort. Like most of you, we all work full time in the UK Travel Industry, so you may have seen some new offers, some new hotels. Let us know.
You may represent hotels, airlines, tour operators, tourist boards that want to reward the UK Travel Industry for everything they have done to support your brands through the last 13 months (and counting). So why not tell us what you can offer?
Where we can, we use affiliate links that pays us a very small % (think: hosting costs) – so please support us as well, most importantly by sharing any offers you’ve seen for those of exclusively working in the UK Travel Industry.
Let’s get planning, and hopefully soon, we can get packing!
You can e-mail us at [email protected] leave a comment below, or on our Facebook Page – they are all read and appreciated (apart from the inevitable spambots!).
We ❤️ you all!
The Datai Langkawi Travel Industry Rate
Wyndham Hotels (including Ramada), Travel Industry Discounts
*Updated for 2020 *
Deal At A Glance
Link: Wyndham Hotels
Details: Hit the Special Rates dropdown, select Promotion Code and Enter ‘STT’. If ‘Promotion Code’ is not shown, simply select Corporate Code and Enter ‘1000013864’
Book By: Ongoing
Eligibility: Valid for travel agents only. Wyndham have advised us that an IATA, CLIA, TRUE or ARC card is required to show at check-in. However, we appreciate that these are almost exclusively the domain of US based Travel Agents, so we advise if you are UK based to e-mail the hotel prior to booking from your work account to see if they will accept other forms of ID, such as a Business Card or verification on header paper at check-in.
Potential Savings: The savings vary but can be pushing 50%, though you’re unlikely to get that sort of saving for peak dates in New York! 20% might be more realistic there.
Ease Of Use: Very straightforward
Further Information
Of course, Wyndham and their hotel ranges including Ramada are global brands and so it is worth checking their offers wherever you might be going. However, where they really stand out in our opinion is in having offers in major US cities where travel industry savings are often hard to come by.
Wyndham also include a discount UK hotel range – Days Inn, in fact their full hotel list is extensive – full list below.
And the beauty of the Wyndhams site is that it searches all their ranges. As an example, we just tried putting some dates in for London and applying the code as detailed. We got a rate of around £59 a night saving 30% on the public rates. Yes you may wonder why we’d want to stay in Finchley, but it’s handy if you’re heading to any concerts (or the darts!) in Alexander Palace
- AmericInn
- Baymont Inn & Suites
- Days Inn
- Dazzler Hotels
- Dolce Hotels and Resorts
- Esplendor Boutique Hotels
- Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham
- Howard Johnson
- La Quinta Inns & Suites
- Microtel by Wyndham
- Ramada Worldwide
- Super 8
- The Trademark Hotel Collection
- Travelodge (Not the UK company, many hotels in US)
- TRYP by Wyndham
- Viva Wyndham
- Wingate By Wyndham
- Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
- Wyndham Garden Hotels
- Wyndham Grand
Deal Recap
Link: Wyndham Hotels
Details: Hit the Special Rates dropdown, select Promotion Code and Enter ‘STT’. If ‘Promotion Code’ is not shown, simply select Corporate Code and Enter ‘1000013864’
Book By: Ongoing
Eligibility: Valid for travel agents only. Wyndham have advised us that an IATA, CLIA, TRUE or ARC card is required to show at check-in. However, we appreciate that these are almost exclusively the domain of US based Travel Agents, so we advise if you are UK based to e-mail the hotel prior to booking from your work account to see if they will accept other forms of ID, such as a Business Card or verification on header paper at check-in.
Potential Savings: The savings vary but can be pushing 50%, though you’re unlikely to get that sort of saving for peak dates in New York! 20% might be more realistic there.
Ease Of Use: Very straightforward
Marriott / SPG Fam-Tastic Industry Rates
In 2016 Marriott bought Starwood to become the world’s largest hotel chain.
The integration has been gradual, but you you may have noticed big changes to Starwoods STARPRO rates – i.e. they no longer exist!
The good news is that ProLearning and STARPRO rates have been replaced by Marriott’s popular Hotel Excellence! platform and exclusive Fam-Tastic® discount rate. To quote from their Press Release:
“With Fam-Tastic rates, qualified travel professionals will be able to explore participating brands across the SPG® and Marriott Rewards® portfolio at a deeper discount than STARPRO rates. These rates are valid for one room with a maximum of four consecutive nights. With this announcement, Marriott will also expand partners’ access to the special rates by lifting the prior limit of five stays per year. Stays at the Fam-Tastic® discount rate will now be unlimited, subject to availability.
In addition, SPG Pro travel professionals will no longer earn Starpoints or eligible nights toward elite status for client bookings. For client bookings made on or before January 1, 2018, SPG Pro members will still earn Starpoints — even if the stay occurs after January 1, 2018. SPG® Pro members’ Starpoints balance will not go away, and the way they earn and redeem for both personal travel and any meetings and events bookings will remain the same.
Finally, SPG Pro meeting planners will continue to earn Starpoints and eligible nights toward elite status for booking meetings and events and third-party professional meeting planners will gain access to Marriott’s exclusive Plan-Tastic discount rates at participating brands across the SPG and Marriott Rewards portfolio. Similar to Fam-Tastic, these rates offer a deeper discount than STARPRO rates with unlimited bookings across the portfolio.”
It is worth noting that Marriott now own a staggering 30 different brands – from Moxy to Ritz Carlton. And it looks like almost all are offering Agent Discounts!
They have truly global reach – with Protea Hotels for example offering a great range of hotels throughout Africa – an oft ignored destination for Travel Industry rates. Here’s a random search for Cape Town next month offering a 50% discount on the public rates:
A reminder of Marriott’s brands:
Luxury Hotel Brands:
JW Marriott Hotels
The Ritz-Carlton
St. Regis Hotels & Resorts
EDITION Hotels
Bulgari Hotels & Resorts
The Luxury Collection
W Hotels
Premium Hotel Brands:
Delta Hotels
Marriott Hotels & Resorts
Marriott Vacation Club
Sheraton Hotels and Resorts
Le Méridien
Renaissance Hotels
Westin Hotels
Gaylord Hotels
Select Hotel Brands:
Courtyard by Marriott
Fairfield Inn by Marriott
Four Points by Sheraton
Protea Hotels by Marriott
SpringHill Suites by Marriott
AC Hotels by Marriott
Aloft Hotels
Moxy Hotels
Long Stay Hotel Brands:
Marriott Executive Apartments
Residence Inn by Marriott
TownePlace Suites
Element by Westin
Homes & Villas by Marriott International
Collections Hotel Brands:
Autograph Collection Hotels
Design Hotels
Tribute Portfolio
Deal Recap
Link: Marriott Travel Agents Site
Details: You need to sign in with a valid IATA/TIDS/ARC or TIDS numbers. Once you have done this click on the ‘Promotions’ Tab which will give you access to agents rates.
Book By: Ongoing
Eligibility: Valid for travel agents. ID is required at check-in. We are checking for access for non-IATA Travel Agents.
Potential Savings: We believe savings of upto 50% are possible., but 30% is more common.
Ease Of Use: Straightforward
IHGAgents.com down?
Thanks for the heads up from a couple of our readers – we’ve been advised that the InterContinental Hotels & Resorts Agent Website (IHGAgent.com) is not showing agent rates.
However, we’ve been advised this is only a short term problem due to website & system updates, and they are hoping to have this resolved shortly.
If you need to check availability or book urgently, then their lovely staff can do that for you on 0800 02 85 880 and they can check availability and book rooms for you there and then.
Do have your IATA number handy in advance. We’ll try and let you know as soon as this glitch has been fixed!
Travelodge Sale – Save 20%
A belated Merry Christmas to all TID’ers (this feels like deja vu!).
As we know the offers will come through thick and fast through peaks, so here’s a quick 3 day offer from Travelodge – as always with them, first come first served!
Currently good availability – but 20% off most of their hotels for most dates from 02 Jan – 09 September 2020.
Over 1 million rooms have been released at their sale rates.
Remember that Travelodge do not offer Travel Industry exclusive rates so these offers are available to all – get in there quick!
Deal At A Glance
Link: Travelodge upto 20% off!
Details: Get 20% off stays from 02nd January until 09th September 2020
Book By: Sale ends midnight on 1st January 22020
Eligibility: Valid for everyone and anyone!
Potential Savings: 20% off Travelodge’s already great prices!
Ease Of Use: Incredibly straightforward – Use code 2020 at checkout
Amari Hotels Travel Industry Rates – inc Thailand, Malaysia & Maldives
Deal At A Glance
Link: Amari Hotels
Details: Head to the link above and enter ‘industry’ in the promo code box. Then just search for hotels, dates etc as normal. When the results came through, we then ordered by price which made the travel industry rate more prominent, bringing it to the top of the page.
Book By: Ongoing, the rates we saw also included .
Eligibility: Valid for travel agents or airline employees. ID can be requested at check-in.
Potential Savings: Amari have advertised savings of up to 50%. The first search we tried brought up a 35% saving spot good discounts clearly available.
Ease Of Use: Straightforward and there appears to be excellent availability.
Further Information
We have written about the Onyx Hospitality Group in the past, at the time there were no specific travel industry rates (note ti ourselves – must update that page now…)
Example of a travel industry rate at Amari Hotels
The news that there is now a travel industry discount rate for Amari hotels is welcome as this is a range that covers some superb destinations including Bangladesh, Phuket, Doha, Pattaya, Hua Hin, Maldives and many more – they have a handy destination guide.
The hotels are luxurious and modern and many rooms have outstanding views.
With the travel industry rate for Amari hotels you save money (of course) but also retain the flexibility of being able to cancel at late notice on many of the offers – these are not discounts that always require pre payment (at least not in our experience).
What more is there to say? Get browsing and potentially save yourself a packet.
Deal Recap
Link: Amari Hotels
Details: Head to the link above and enter ‘industry’ in the promo code box. Then just search for hotels, dates etc as normal. When the results came through, we then ordered by price which made the travel industry rate more prominent, bringing it to the top of the page.
Book By: Ongoing, the rates we saw also included .
Eligibility: Valid for travel agents or airline employees. ID can be requested at check-in.
Potential Savings: Amari have advertised savings of up to 50%. The first search we tried brought up a 35% saving spot good discounts clearly available.
Ease Of Use: Straightforward and there appears to be excellent availability.
Travelodge Boxing Day Sale – Save 30%
A belated Merry Christmas to all TID’ers!
As we know the offers will come through thick and fast through peaks, so here’s a quick 5 day offer from Travelodge – as always with them, first come first served!
Currently good availability – but 30% off most of their hotels for most dates from 01 Jan – 31 March.
You can see a full list of hotels offering the discount and dates here and check availability here
Remember that Travelodge do not offer Travel Industry exclusive rates so these offers are available to all – get in there quick!
Deal At A Glance
Link: Travelodge upto 30% off!
Details: Get 30% off stays from 1st January 2019 until 31st March 2019
Book By: Sale ends midnight on 1st January 2019
Eligibility: Valid for everyone and anyone!
Potential Savings: 30% off Travelodge’s already great prices!
Ease Of Use: Incredibly straightforward – Use code 30OFF at checkout