{"id":22459,"date":"2020-04-07T09:53:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/uncategorized\/b2b-business-to-business\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T15:43:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:43:42","slug":"b2b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/b2b","title":{"rendered":"B2B (Business to Business)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of B2B (Business to Business) in the <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hospitality-industry\">hospitality industry<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Known as Business to Business, a term that refers to the sale of products or services from one business to another.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of B2B are outsourcing <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel\">hotel<\/a> staff from a company, wholesale food purchasing, hotel maintenance performed by an outside company and company hotel bookings. Rather than <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/b2c-business-to-consumer\">B2C<\/a>, B2B can refer to either the generation of a sale from a company or the hotel purchasing a service or product from another company.<\/p>\n<p>Business to Business is important in a <a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/hotel-industry\">hotel industry<\/a> in order to maintain facilities, keep up-to-date on industry upgrades, generating sales and other services that could improve the hotel\u2019s building(s), reputation and management. Another positive factor is that hotel reputation from local businesses can be earned quicker, rather than individuals and individual sales through B2C. On the other hand, unlike Business to Consumer, B2B usually involves contracts and may involve legal counsel in negotiating of terms or prices. Sales generated from B2B, depending on the amount of projected sales, could result in the selling of rooms at a discounted price.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"glossary-only-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/b2c-business-to-consumer\">B2C<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Synonyms<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Business to Business<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the meaning \/ definition of B2B (Business to  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b","category-glossary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>B2B (Business to Business) Definition \/ Meaning - Xotels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Definition: Known as Business to Business, a term that refers to the sale of products or services from one business to another.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/b2b\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"B2B (Business to Business) Definition \/ Meaning - Xotels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Definition: Known as Business to Business, a term that refers to the sale of products or services from one business to another.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.xotels.com\/en\/glossary\/b2b\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Xotels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-07T09:53:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-03T15:43:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Patrick Landman\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@xotels\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Patrick Landman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/glossary\\\/b2b#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/glossary\\\/b2b\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Patrick Landman\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f51e882bd553ae1b905fc0214cdca6f5\"},\"headline\":\"B2B (Business to Business)\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-07T09:53:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-03T15:43:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/glossary\\\/b2b\"},\"wordCount\":208,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.xotels.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"B\",\"Hotel Terminology &amp; 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