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Building a great online booking interface is hard. Dealing with multiple platforms in the mobile era adds complexity. Making a buck on bookings may be the biggest challenge of all. Business travel entrepreneurs typically can map all that out. If they don’t have industry experience, though, they can stumble in integrating with external systems in…
[UPDATE, Feb. 13, 2020: Rather than letting their marketing pact expire, American and Alaska announced a “West Coast alliance” including codesharing on both carriers’ domestic flights and some AA international routes from Los Angeles and Seattle. Loyalty program and lounge access reciprocity are part of the partnership. Alaska also intends to join AA in the…
[UPDATE, Jan. 25, 2017: HRG apparently released a new app sometime in the last few weeks. It’s available on Android and iOS, and offers typical TMC app features like itinerary sync and touch-to-call. “This app is only available to existing HRG clients who have the app enabled in their technology configuration,” according to the iTunes…
The International Air Transport Association’s New Distribution Capability has been in the making for about five years and many still don’t get it. Depending on your interpretation and where you sit, it’s either a promising or unsettling development for business travel distribution. NDC is neither a new airline reservations system nor a massive database of…
Hyatt Hotels Corporation has reversed its plan to keep new loyalty program members-only discount rates out of global distribution systems. A spokesperson declined to address why the company quickly overturned its original statement that travel agents would have to use its website to book the rates. “Many of our members book their travel through our…
[UPDATE, June 10: Airbnb announced the program. An official said travel agents are not part of it for the moment, but on-site agents might be. More context here.] Breaking from its standard policy of allowing only the guest to book his or her own accommodations, Airbnb is preparing a feature for its business clients allowing travel…
[UPDATE, May 5: Travel agencies will earn commissions on the IHG rates, according to a press official.] [UPDATE, May 3: InterContinental Hotels Group is “working diligently” to make the new member rates available via GDSs “in the coming weeks,” according to an IHG letter to travel professionals.] Confused about how and whether to access some…
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