Accor and Expedia to launch points-earning flight and hotel packages

ACCOR HAS PARTNERED WITH EXPEDIA GROUP to launch a new ‘Flight + Hotel’ site, which will allow customers to “seamlessly add flights to their hotel stay”. For members of Accor’s ALL loyalty programme it will mean points can be earned on both the hotel and flight portion of packages purchased through the new site. Expedia said that the site will first launch in Australia, followed by the UK, France and Germany. Expedia pointed to two pieces of research to explain the move - the first showing that over half of travellers state that it is “more important to travel with their loyalty providers than before the pandemic”, and the second showing that package customers cancel 75 per cent less, stay twice as long and book twice as early compared to non-package travellers. IAN…

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