Today we feature Guillermo Gaspart, CEO and co-founder of ByHours, a venture-funded hotel booking company with a difference. Born and raised in Barcelona, Spain, CEO Guillermo is a fourth generation hotel business entrepreneur and has been in the hotel industry for all of his professional life. His great grandfather was one of the pioneer

The tourism sector is in a delicate moment, although with the opening of tourism and new measures, it is gradually recovering. We are immersed in a complicated situation but there are also many opportunities to update our offering, to think of new ways to reach customers and to adopt the best way to highlight

Sabre has teamed up with microstay hotel booking platform ByHours to offer by-the-hour hotel reservations. The Texas-based global distribution system says the agreement makes Sabre the first global platform to offer hourly hotel reservations. Through the partnership, travel agents will have access to content that will allow them to sell rooms by the hour through the ByHours’

Given the situation of the hotel sector around the world, the exercise of promoting direct sales for hotels is elemental and each day it has a growing presence in sales strategies. We’ve had many months to innovate, evolve and look for the best way to promote our products and services to our guests. What

A lot has changed since we last interviewed Guillermo Gaspart, CEO & co-founder of BYHOURS. The online platform that allows you to book microstays in more than 3,500 hotels on the 5 continents in packs of 3, 6 and 12 hours is on the move. They started this year with €8 million in funding poised for further expansion, sold

The maelstrom of rapid growth caused by COVID-19 brought with it, seemingly overnight, the need to implement the concept of teleworking. While the dynamics of teleworking or home office were already part of the DNA of some organizations, the reality was different for many others, and they were caught on their "wrong foot." Sharing the

La crisis por la pandemia del coronavirus ha cambiado la forma de trabajar y relacionarse de millones de personas en todo el mundo. El virus ha paralizado los viajes de Semana Santa, entre tantas otras celebraciones que estas semanas se han cancelado, al igual que todas las reservas de hoteles. Un sinfín de actos y eventos en España, con un gran

This new round will allow the by-the-hour hotel bookings company to continue to grow in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, as well as expand into the United States. The company, with headquarters in Barcelona and a new office in Mexico, offers microstays of 3, 6 and 12 hours in over 3,000 hotels in

BYHOURS, die erste Online-Plattform und mobile Anwendung auf internationaler Ebene, die es Kunden ermöglicht, Mikroaufenthalte in mehr als 3000 Hotels in 3-, 6- und 12-Stunden-Paketen zu buchen, wird einer Studie über Nachhaltigkeitstrends für den Sommer unterzogen. Bei Untersuchungen stellte sich heraus, dass Urlaub machen eine der Hauptursachen für die Zunahme der Umweltverschmutzung ist. Laut einer

Sustainable development of hotel and tourism industries plays a significant role in achieving the SDGs. A large number of island and Southern European countries (like the Maldives, the Seychelles, Montenegro, Croatia and others) strongly depend on income from travelers around the world. Tourism helps to alleviate poverty and boost regional economic growth. In an era

BARCELONA – BYHOURS, an online platform that allows users to book hotel rooms in 3, 6, and 12 hours packages at more than 2,500 hotels worldwide, has closed an investment round of three million euros to strengthen its international expansion. This round had participation by international investors with extensive engagement in the Travel and Hospitality