{"id":442,"date":"2009-03-19T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2020-01-21T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T10:03:40","slug":"bit-milan-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/bit-milan-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"BIT, Milan, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">The global economic markets hit BIT 2009 in Milan hard this year. Italy seems to be suffering more than any other country; RateTiger has been to many tradeshows which reported an increase in attendance. However BIT lost 25% of attendees on 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Our sales managers experienced an atmosphere full of pessimism and lack of motivation from many exhibitors and visitors. Giuseppe Messina, SM in Italy said: \u201cI can tell you that the mood was a bit down. I had the chance to talk with hotel managers coming from Florence, Venice and Rome, and they are all in the same scenario:  25-30% of occupation compared to 2008.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Due to our position in the market hoteliers were keen to talk about RateTiger and online distribution in general. Stand visitors were interested in a product like RTChannelManager but still worried about increasing outgoings until they began to see a greater return in online channels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Enzo Aita, SM in Italy, was surprised that some of the big players did not turn up: \u201cHotelplan and Italian TO (Alpitour, Francorosso, etc) did not come as exhibitors \u2013 I was very surprised by this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">We hope the Italian market will begin to pick up over the next few months. RateTiger will be launching soon a product that will assist smaller hoteliers to maximize rates and distribution online while helping tight budgets.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global economic markets hit BIT 2009 in Milan hard this year. Italy seems to be suffering more than any other country; RateTiger has been to many tradeshows which reported an increase in attendance. However BIT lost 25% of attendees on 2008. Our sales managers experienced an atmosphere full of pessimism and lack of motivation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/bit-milan-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BIT, Milan, 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,283],"tags":[1003],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hotel-channel-connectivity","category-hotel-online-distribution","tag-hotel-pricing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erevmax.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}