A.  The Hotel RFP questions were taken from the 1999 version of the Standard National Business Travel Association (NBTA) RFP form.

A.  Using Deliberation™ Hotel RFP Service, travel coordinators who periodically compile corporate hotel directory, conference organizers or meeting planners can submit Requests for Proposals to hotels or hotel chains anywhere in the World.  In turn, every hotel can submit a response bid through the same service.

A.  Request for proposal

A.  The query will be sent electronically to the hotel on the day it is submitted.  From there on, it is up to each hotel whether to follow-up with the response to your RFP.  Note that we will have to fax your RFP to the hotels that do not have email connections, which might take additional time.

A.  You can submit your hotel to our database by filling out the Hotel Registration Request.  There will be a US$10 charge for every Hotel Registration Request.  (Registration is free until January 1, 1999). You can also advertise on our site, to obtain better exposure with potential customers.  Note that your registration entails no ongoing or maintenance costs and no obligation to reply to any corporate RFP that we might send you in the future, or to pay for such services.

A.  Please do leave suggestions for the Hotel RFP by filling out a Questionnaire or by leaving a message in our Guestbook.

A.  You can register your company with our service by filling out the Client Registration form.  At present, client registration is free.  Note that corporate registration entails no service costs and no obligation to submit RFPs.

A.  The basic service is currently free for business travel coordinators and corporate planners.  Your registration entails no ongoing or maintenance costs and no obligation to reply to any corporate RFP that we might send you in the future or to pay for such services.  To register, use the form on page http://www.arraydev.com/travel/cgi-bin/register.cgi.

A.  Hotels pay US$10 transactional fees on the receipt of each RFP that they agree to accept or for the use of the Reply Form.  A hotel does not have to pay anything if it decides not to accept a particular RFP.

A.  Yes, it would definitely benefit a small chain or independent hotel, as with your registration we will include your hotel in the list for all worldwide clients to consider.  There is no additional effort required by the clients to submit the RFP to any number of hotels, large or big, locally or worldwide.

A.  As some of your leading competitors have already found, it is the most efficient and the least expensive way to exchange corporate requests and hotel replies.  As well, many large corporations currently insist that all the hotel response bids are only submitted in electronic form and in the predefined standard format.  They no longer even consider bids submitted by the fax or through courier delivery.  Our Internet RFP service is fully consistent with electronic RFP/bid interchange requirements and thus could save much time and labor resources to you and your clients.

A.  The use of our service helps to build strong relationship and reinforces the brand loyalty that your clients have developed with your hotel chain.  By encouraging your corporate clients to use this service, you proactively cementing your mutual relationship, which is to your competitive advantage.

A.  Using our Hotel RFP Service is quite simple and the users do not require any special technical training or software installation on their computers.

A.  For an additional fee, we will send you a Special Report with the reliable financial and business information on a company that requests your bid.

A.  If a particular hotel does not have access to email, the request can be delivered by fax or surface mail.

A.  We do not decide to which hotels an RFP will be sent. It is entirely up to the Client to instruct us who to send it to.  We just resend the RFP to all hotels the Client selects.  However, one can safely assume that the ads provide an additional exposure to the advertiser on our site.  Clients often select the vendor with the best ad, that's life.

A.  No, it is entirely up to the Clients of our services.

A. We haven't found such a promotional program yet. If any of the participating hotels have it, please notify our company.