Arc Europe has awarded Golden Tulip Hotels, Inns & Resorts to be the most innovative partner at their annual Arc Europe/Show Your Card! Marketing conference held in Berlin, Germany on 4 and 5 June 2003.
Arc Europe has presented Golden Tulip with the award for its outstanding Internet site www.goldentulip.com. On the Golden Tulip web site a special section has been designed for Arc Europe members, where they can log in using the membership number of their automobile or motoring club and are subsequently shown special discounted rates at all Golden Tulip and Tulip Inn hotels. This special section is accessible via a link on the Golden Tulip homepage. Every automobile or motoring club website that is part of Arc Europe also has a direct link to the Golden Tulip website.
Hans Kennedie, managing director and CEO of Golden Tulip comments: “I am very happy to receive this award. We strongly believe in the strength and power of partnerships, especially in the travel industry. To be recognised with this award shows the success of our partnership. Golden Tulip currently works with over 20 travel partners, so this award is a great honour to us, as well as a confirmation of our activities.”
Arc Europe is the umbrella organisation of European automobile and motoring clubs, such as AA, ACI, ADAC, ANWB, OEAMTC, RACE, TCB and TCS. The organisation currently has more than 30 million members. For its members Arc Europe has designed the Show Your Card! savings programme with which members can enjoy benefits from special deals with amongst others hotels companies and car rental companies. Golden Tulip has been a partner in the Show Your Card! programme since March 2000.
Golden Tulip Hotels, Inns & Resorts is a privately owned franchise company with its head office based in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. Through its commercial alliance with TOP International Hotels, the German based hotel consortium, the Golden Tulip Top Hospitality Group comprises over 46,000 rooms in approximately 450 hotels across 47 countries, with the majority of hotels being located in urban destinations across Europe, the Middle East & Africa. Golden Tulip offers a unique concept for two brands, designed to implement international standards, whilst maintaining local flavours: Golden Tulip for the four star business and resort hotels and Tulip Inn for the three star category. TOP International Hotels provide hotel reservations, marketing and sales services to independent hotels Since 1975, Golden Tulip is been the preferred travel partner of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
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