On June 6, 2013, Europe’s largest hotel group, Accor, and the HRS Group successfully joined forces by signing a long-term global cooperation agreement. In the future, the two parties will carry out closer collaboration in numerous fields. As a result, Accor’s 3,500 luxury and economy hotels across 92 countries worldwide, totaling tens of thousands of rooms, can now be booked globally through the HRS, hotel.info, and Tiscover websites.
In the future, all hotels under the Accor Group will be interconnected with the HRS Group’s reservation system via a direct data interface, providing real-time pricing, room availability, and dynamic information. In addition, many of Accor’s hotels offer corporate rates for business travelers, which can also be booked through the HRS and hotel.de websites.
Jean-Luc Chrétien, Executive Vice President of Accor Hotels Group, said: “The HRS Group can enhance our global market presence and is a perfect complement to our own distribution channels. I am very pleased that Accor can continue to successfully collaborate with such an important strategic partner.”
Tobias Ragge, CEO of the HRS Group, stated: “We are very pleased to further strengthen our successful cooperation with Accor Group. Accor is a global leader in hotel operations with a wide range of brands, offering accommodations at various price points for travelers. Therefore, this partnership allows us to provide an even richer selection of rooms to our customers worldwide.”
According to Pan Ji, Managing Director of Consumer Business for HRS Greater China: Currently, all of Accor’s rooms, including special discount services, have been launched on www.hrs.cn, in sync with the global platform. Users can directly book hotels through the official HRS Chinese website.
-About the HRS Hotel Portal
HRS is a global hotel portal. Founded in 1972, it is now part of the HRS Group headquartered in Cologne, Germany. The HRS Group has more than 1,200 employees worldwide and owns brands such as hotel.info and Tiscover, with branches in cities including Innsbruck, London, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Istanbul, Warsaw, Moscow, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, and São Paulo.
HRS provides accommodation information for over 250,000 hotels in 180 countries worldwide for both business and leisure travelers, covering all price ranges, with up to 12 million monthly website visits. HRS offers free booking services with competitive prices and guaranteed refunds. Standard bookings can be cancelled free of charge before 6:00 PM on the day of arrival.
The HRS website offers detailed hotel descriptions, a wealth of photos and videos, as well as over 3 million guest reviews, making hotel selection more convenient. As an innovation leader, HRS also provides apps for all standard smartphones and tablets, allowing customers to book their desired hotel rooms anytime, anywhere. HRS not only serves millions of individual travelers but also regularly handles accommodation bookings for over 35,000 organizations for business travel, conferences, and group tours. These corporate clients can enjoy HRS’s special business rates, with same-day room discounts as low as 30% off.
-About Accor Group
Accor is Europe’s leading hotel group and market leader, with over 3,500 hotels and 450,000 rooms across 92 countries worldwide. The Accor Group includes a wide range of hotel brands such as Sofitel, Pullman, MGallery, Novotel, Mercure, Adagio, ibis, ibis Styles, ibis Budget, and F1, covering both luxury and economy accommodations. The Accor brand hotels employ 160,000 people globally and have provided professional services to customers and partners for 45 years.