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Marriott Hotels – Travel Industry Agent Discounts

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Deal At A Glance

 Link: www.marriott.co.uk
Details: Enter code ‘’TVL’ under ‘Corporate/promotional code’
Book by: Ongoing
Eligibility: Available to active travel agents, wholesale/tour operators, incentive company, commercial airline (an airline that is in the business of transporting passengers, not packages), and Hertz employees. Staff ID will be checked – check your ‘Rate Rules’ for appropriate ID.
Potential savings: Up to 50%
Ease of use: Very simple

 

Further Information

The Marriott group is a global brand with more than 500 hotels (50 of which are in the UK) and locations as varied as Aruba, Armenia, Vietnam and Virgin Islands.

Marriott is also renowned for its agent friendly approach to agent rates, with generally great availability, and a simple to use agent discount search.

Discounts offered vary from 15%-50%. We ran numerous searches on the site and found good availability and many discounts approaching that magical 50% figure. Popular locations at busy times are unlikely to get that level of discount, but 20 to 30% is still common.

 

Deal Recap

 Link: www.marriott.co.uk
Details: Enter code ‘’TVL’ under ‘Corporate/promotional code’
Book by: Ongoing
Eligibility: Available to active travel agents, wholesale/tour operators, incentive company, commercial airline (an airline that is in the business of transporting passengers, not packages), and Hertz employees. Staff ID will be checked – check your ‘Rate Rules’ for appropriate ID.
Potential savings:
Ease of use: Very simple

Starwood Hotels – Travel Industry Discount Rates

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Deal At A Glance

Link:  www.spg.com/pro to join
Details: You must join, log-in, complete the first learning module, then find the ‘PROLEARNING’ link at the bottom, then you will find the ‘Book Starpro Rates link’ – or if you are logged in – just click here
Book by:  Ongoing
Eligibility: Must present proper identification as detailed above when booking and upon check-in
Potential savings: 40% is common
Ease of use: Fairly straightforward once you have registered and jumped through the initial hoops and know where to find the link…
Note: There is a separate ‘Travel Professional Rate’, however this serves up smaller discounts as outlined below.

Further Information

One of our most requested hotel chains is Starwood – perhaps not by name, but by one of the myriad of largely luxury brands they own.

You’ll probably know their brands – Sheraton, Westin, The Luxury Collection, the luxury boutique W Hotels brand, St. Regis, Le Méridien and an upcoming range of mid-priced properties such as Aloft, Four Points by Sheraton and the first environmentally friendly chain – Element by Westin.

With 25% of the 1,200 hotels under the Starwood brand being in the United States, they are a great place to explore Travel Industry rates – which fortunately are relative straightforward to find – once you’ve signed up.

Starwood operates a SPG Pro Programme where you are expected to join Starwoods Frequent Traveller Programme. You also (as per most US Centric Programmes) expected to enter an IATA/TIDS/ARC/TRUE/CLIA number. With the majority of these being irrelevant to us in the UK – enter your IATA, or some people have entered that of their Consolidators if they do not have their own. Always carry ID on check-in (business cards / letter of employment on headed notepaper).

After signing up – head to the Pro Learning Section where you must pass the straightforward Loyalty and Brands section – this is essential to get access to StarPro rates.

And it’s well worth it. For example – we found the W Hotel in Leicester Square at a 40% saving.

It should also be mentioned that Starwood also offers a secondary ‘Travel Professional Rate’, but this was vastly inferior in price and availability compared to the Star Pro rates in every case we examined – so we recommend you spend a bit more time going through the Starwood training programme to access the better rates.

Deal Recap

Link:  www.spg.com/pro to join
Details: You must join, log-in, complete the first learning module, then find the ‘PROLEARNING’ link at the bottom, then you will find the ‘Book Starpro Rates link’ – or if you are logged in – just click here
Book by:  Ongoing
Eligibility: Must present proper identification as detailed above when booking and upon check-in
Potential savings: 40% is common
Ease of use: Fairly straightforward once you have registered and jumped through the initial hoops and know where to find the link…
Note: There is a separate ‘Travel Professional Rate’, however this serves up smaller discounts as outlined below.

Malaysia Airlines Industry Fares

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We all need to show a bit of love to Malaysia Airlines – quite simply one of the best airlines you can fly with for service and smiles, but they have faced obvious recent setbacks. With British Airways also recently announcing daily flights to Kuala Lumpur, there will be challenges ahead, but MH remains one of our favourite airlines to fly in the meantime, and we encourage you to take advantage of these great fares!

They have recently announced Industry Fares for travel until 28th May 2015 (excluding peak seasons like Christmas & Easter) to Asia, Australia & New Zealand with fares starting from £378 to Kuala Lumpur and £645 to Sydney (both including tax).

These flights have to be booked directly with Malaysia Airlines so will be carefully vetted, but there is a wide range of eligibility:

“All travel agents (IATA/ATOL), Hoteliers, Tourism Board who have 12 months service, their spouse or companion (maximum 3) and children. Eligible staff are only those in permanent employment with a minimum of 12 months service. Employee and companion must travel together on all sectors. “

You should also note that it is valid on days 1, 2, 3, 4  only LHR-KUL-LHR, and not on MH 2. You can check availability in your GDS first as this books into O Class, and this MUST be booked by 30 Sep 2014.

We’re aware that amazing industry flight deals may attract attention from those not valid to book, so please note you will need to book this using your work e-mail, and ID will be checked upon boarding (and you could be denied boarding if you fail to show it).

With this in mind and to prevent abuse of the offer, for further details simply e-mail us at [email protected] from your work e-mail address and we will forward further details on how you can book directly with the airline.