Tag: Yapta
Coupa Buys Yapta, Which Was Part-Owned By Concur
Coupa acquired Yapta, the thirteen-year-old hotel and airfare price assurance firm named for “Your Amazing Personal Travel Assistant.” Yapta had raised more than $25 million…
Startup Whizar Targets Travel Management Companies With Fare Predictions And Ticketing Optimization
Re-shopping booked airfares is nothing new in corporate travel. Front-end fare predictions are relatively common in consumer travel. A Tel Aviv startup now is enabling…
Egencia Is Building Its Own Hotel Rate Assurance Technology
Popularized by Tripbam and Yapta, hotel rate assurance is now a common part of travel management. Dozens of travel management companies work with those firms…
Yapta Automates Hotel Rebooking
Clients now can configure Yapta to automatically rebook hotel rooms at lower rates in a variety of scenarios. These include when Yapta finds a better…
Amex GBT To Expand Proprietary Hotel Reshopping Service
American Express Global Business Travel this year will bring its hotel reshopping function to markets beyond North America. Like services from Tripbam and Yapta, it…
Egencia Adds Array Of Services As It Moves From ‘Digital TMC’ To Platform
Egencia president Rob Greyber has been thinking a lot about the long view. He has opinions on how leading travel management companies will develop to…
Reshopping Can Be Free, But Beware The Bias
Popularized by Tripbam and Yapta, hotel reshopping offers savings as rates fluctuate after initial bookings. But who controls exactly what gets reshopped and rebooked? Whose…
