One of our core principles at The Company Dime is that it’s about you, the reader, not us. But last week we celebrated our first birthday, so we hope you don’t mind indulging us as we reflect. Actually, we need a favor. Read on for more details, but to get straight to the point — if you haven’t purchased…
[UPDATE: Booking.com in 2017 acquired Evature. Concur in 2016 bought Hipmunk.”] The next big thing excited travel technology enthusiasts when Concur in 2012 invested in Evature, provider of natural-language search capabilities. The technology hasn’t become, in PhoCusWright’s words at the time, a “game-changing travel innovation.” But there are signs it’s beginning to move from Gartner’s “peak of inflated expectations” through the trough of…
[UPDATE, March 7, 2018: 30SecondsToFly made available its Claire travel management platform for “small teams” on Product Hunt. Users access Claire by text and on Facebook or Slack. The platform offers pre-trip approval, custom travel policies based on price caps and cabin classes and consolidated travel data for admins filtered by office, department or traveler.] [UPDATE, Nov. 20, 2016: Deem…
Airfares around the United States generally are falling compared with last year, but exceptions include some pretty big markets. Even where prices aren’t rising, years of capacity reductions in some places mean much less choice, fewer nonstop destinations and lower overall value. This forces travel buyers to rethink their air contracting strategies. Where the loss of air service is extreme, there’s also an impact on…
[UPDATE, June 16, 2017: Marriott International on June 15 introduced a new 48-hour cancellation policy at all hotels across all brands in the Americas, except Design Hotels, effective immediately. “Guests will now be required to cancel their room reservation by midnight 48 hours prior to arrival to avoid a fee,” according to a company statement. “This will allow hotels a…
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