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Hotel Engine Joins Intermediaries Creating Flexibility For A Fee

Lodging aggregator Hotel Engine has a new service allowing business clients to cancel and modify reservations up to noon on the day of check-in for a $200 monthly subscription fee. It’s a “pro” version of the same flexibility option for individual bookings, which the company said saved its members $5 million on more than 55,000…

Altour Releases Mobile App Including Lumo Integration

Altour last week released an Android and iOS mobile app with chat functions and flight disruption predictions from Lumo, formerly called Flightsayer. App maker mTrip helped build it. Mobile apps are a requirement for big corporate customers, according to Altour CIO and SVP Laura Mattingly. She said the TMC liked mTrip’s flexibility for adding other…

Roadmap Adds Another Big Client Amid Struggle For The Mobile Managed Traveler

Health insurance giant Anthem got its travel management company, BCD Travel, to play nice as it brings the Roadmap mobile app to employees. That others face resistance when they want to do the same highlights a broader conflict over the corporate traveler’s mobile loyalty. The friction between Roadmap, its clients and its prospects on one…

Withering On The Vine? Sabre’s TripCase Slips In Managed Business Travel While TripIt Keeps Adding Features

The United States Patent and Trademark Office in February granted Sabre a patent on “post-booking travel assistance and organization.” This covers some key functions in the Sabre TripCase mobile app. It came nearly a decade after Sabre applied for the designation and despite more recent comments about its lack of desire for patents. Sabre was…

App Provider DCS Touts Full TMC Tech Integration

Many travel management companies offer itinerary apps to client travelers. With some exceptions, they pretty much provide the same or similar features. “They are more or less a commodity,” said Cristian Dinca, founder of Bucharest-based travel tech firm DCS Plus. He said a differentiator is when an app is an extension of a unified agency…

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