| Premier Inn partners with Webloyalty to enhance its online revenue strategy and add value for customers |
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Deal will offer discounts programme to Premier Inn’s customers
LONDON, UK, 11 November 2010 – Webloyalty, a leading provider of incremental revenue for online businesses, today announced its partnership with Premier Inn. Webloyalty will help the hotel brand to increase revenue and drive repeat business. At the same time it provides Premier Inn’s budget savvy customers the opportunity to join a discounts and rewards programme, which offers savings across their internet purchases.
Premier Inn is the UK's largest and fastest-growing hotel brand with over 580 budget hotels and more than 42,000 rooms across the UK and Ireland. All bedrooms feature en-suite bathroom, TV with Freeview, and WiFi internet access. Premier Inn, which is set to be the largest provider of budget hotels in Central and Greater London by 2012, offers customers a money-back ‘Good Night Guarantee' for a good quality room, comfortable surroundings and friendly service, which is unique amongst Britain's leading hotel chains. Webloyalty provides solutions for online retail and travel businesses in the US, UK, France and Germany to leverage their existing online sales models to generate additional revenue and reward repeat custom. Webloyalty does this by offering valuable membership programmes such as Shopper Discounts & Rewards* to their customers. Martin Child, Managing Director Europe, Webloyalty, said: “With the current staycation trend, there is no better time for a hotel brand such as Premier Inn to ensure they have the right online revenue strategies in place. Webloyalty’s model helps retailers create an additional revenue stream from their web pages with minimal effort required by them to implement the programme.” Customers making bookings on Premier Inn’s website will now have the option to join Shopper Discounts & Rewards, Webloyalty’s membership programme designed for regular online shoppers, that offers cash back and year round discounts of up to 20 percent at over 800 top online retailers plus valuable protection benefits. Steve Conway, Head of Marketing at Premier Inn, commented: “We have been looking at ways to enhance our online strategy whilst wanting to offer our customers extra value. Through Webloyalty our customers can now join a programme that offers them cash back opportunities when booking with us, as well as ongoing discounts across a broad range of other internet purchases.”
Lennard van Otterloo *About Shopper Discounts & Rewards
About Webloyalty Webloyalty has approximately 300 employees in 6 different locations across the US and in Europe. About Premier Inn All Premier Inns feature a bar and restaurant; situated inside the hotel or adjacent, offering a wide range of food choices. Premier Inn was the first Britain-wide hotel group to sign up with national tourist board VisitBritain; this means Premier Inn is now part of a new quality assessment scheme, specially created for budget accommodation. In 2008 Premier Inn launched in Dubai and will be opening in India later this year. On a domestic front, Premier Inn is set to be the largest provide of budget hotels in Central and Greater London by 2012. |

