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In no particular order, here’s our list of the top tech innovators and innovations shaking up the industry…...

With TRIPBAM set to launch its air solution later this year, Bev Fearis checked in with its CEO and founder...

With corporate travel on hold for many organizations for well over a year now, as a travel manager responsible for managing spend, what should you do? Take a...

In early July, Hilton Worldwide did away with automatic daily housekeeping at its non-luxury brands in the United States, and instead now offers housekeeping services upon request, with...

As business travelers take to the road in ever-increasing numbers, they will be returning to many of the same hotels they were familiar with before – as well...

If they stay on their current trajectory, hotel market rates will hit 2019 levels before the end of this year, according to an analysis by TRIPBAM, the hotel...

Current business travel volume is about 30% of 2019 levels and average daily hotel rates remain lower as well but are increasing. The figures, from hotel analytics firm...

Dell is now booking all of its rooms based on dynamic pricing, as previously contracted rates have become obsolete in the wake of the pandemic. More large organizations...

Industry data veteran and former EY global supplier leader for travel, meetings and events Tim Nichols has joined TRIPBAM to develop and lead a new air solutions practice,...

TRIPBAM named Tim Nichols vice president of air solutions, a new role where he will lead the development and rollout of the company’s suite of technology solutions in...

A shift away from cities to suburban and even rural markets, bookings at mid- or lower-star levels and a growth spurt from Hilton over Marriott are trends in...

London-based serviced-apartment provider SilverDoor has become the first such company to partner with hotel re-shopping company TRIPBAM, SilverDoor announced Wednesday. TRIPBAM confirmed it also has no other partnerships...

Serviced apartment company SilverDoor has announced a new partnership agreement with hotel benchmarking and rate reshopping technology company TRIPBAM....

There was a time not so long ago when containing or cutting costs was a travel manager’s top priority. Those days were looking somewhat anachronistic even before Covid-19...

Corporate hotel booking volumes in late January were at 18 per cent of last year’s levels for the same period, but that number is trending up, according to...

In a recent analysis of COVID-19’s impact on corporate hotel stays, TRIPBAM found that among corporate travelers Hilton is gaining market share over competitor Marriott and travel patterns are shifting away from city centers...

Travel buyers shouldn’t wait for travel to pick back up again before taking action on securing the best hotel rates, according to a TRIPBAM report. TRIPBAM, which tracks...

Hilton is gaining corporate market share over Marriott and business travel patterns are shifting away from cities toward more suburban and rural properties, according to a new survey...

Corporate hotel booking volume in late January was at about 18 percent of prior-year levels, but that number is trending up, according to a new quarterly report issued...

Corporate customers constantly reshopping rates is bad for hotels, but so long as properties publish lower rates, revenue managers have little recourse....

Like most companies, Dell’s business travel came to a screeching halt in March when the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic. But there were some functions within...

The rise of independent hotels and soft brands reflect an increasing desire among travelers for lifestyle stays – properties that offer distinctive design and an “unscripted” approach to...

Occupancy in Europe improved w-o-w in week to 12th Sept, encouraging after a flat to declining performance for several weeks, but RevPAR deteriorated due to weaker room rates....

TRIPBAM, the global  hotel shopping, benchmarking and analytics provider, announced a new release of its Smart Sourcing product that makes the solution available to any corporation or consultant,...

Hotel reshopping and analytics company TRIPBAM has enhanced its Smart Sourcing tool and has made it available as a standalone service, the company told BTN....

The corporate travel sector could be edging closer to a more dynamic-based approach when it comes to hotel pricing — with Marriott leading the charge....

TRIPBAM, the Dallas-based hotel shopping, benchmarking and analytics provider, announced a new certification program for managed travel consultants to use TRIPBAM’s technology to source and manage corporate hotel...

Hotel reshopping platform TRIPBAM now offers a certification programme for managed travel consultants to use the company’s technology to source and manage corporate hotel programmes, the company announced....

Hotel reshopping platform TRIPBAM now offers a certification program for managed travel consultants to use the company’s technology to source and manage corporate hotel programs, the company announced....

With the corporate travel and hotel industries still in recovery mode, both sides are looking for alternative approaches to the traditional hotel RFP season....

Hotel shopping, benchmarking and analytics provider TRIPBAM has released a white paper on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the sector....

If you work in procurement, it is your duty to your organization to ensure you’re procuring for cost-efficiency and quality, regardless of which category you’re overseeing....

The Global Business Travel Association is endorsing a postponement of the 2020 hotel request-for-proposals process until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic, and “encourages hotels to roll all...

Reshopping tool TRIPBAM has created a report of closed hotels due to the coronavirus and is making it available to the business travel community, the company announced....

Hotel reshopping technology tool TRIPBAM has created a dashboard to show clients year-over-year in hotel cancellations, average daily rate and new bookings created for any time period. It...

Corporations already are paying more than 7 percent less year-over-year in Houston, New York, Seattle and Washington, D.C., according to Tripbam data....

Hotels reeling from the outbreak of the coronavirus are cutting room rates and starting to reduce staff, an effort to stabilize the business after plunging revenue, canceled group...

The coronavirus has wide-reaching effects on travel, entertainment and the economy. Here are the latest updates on its impacts around the world....

Conference attendees voted for a separate “People’s Choice” award-winner, naming hotel rate shopping platform TRIPBAM....

The 2020 Business Travel Show will feature the first-ever European Innovation Faceoff, an unashamedly gladiatorial competition to find the most disruptive disruptor in business travel today....

After a record-breaking period of growth, one word seems to sum up the outlook for the hotel industry in 2020: “Uncertain.”...

Si chiama TRIPBAM ed è un provider di hospitality che offre prenotazioni, benchmark e analisi, rivolgendosi espressamente al business travel. Si dichiara da subito molto di più di...

Hotel shopping, benchmarking and analytics provider TRIPBAM has added two new features to its solution offering to allow corporates to monitor last room availability (LRA) performance and add...

TRIPBAM CEO Steve Reynolds constantly examines hotel discounts on corporate rates. To help buyers assess the best negotiating approach, he explains the differences between corporate rate types and...

Steve Reynolds, CEO of TRIPBAM, notes every client he works with is interested in dynamic pricing because they believe it’s a potential solution to avoid the annual super-expensive,...

A panel of industry experts seemed to disagree on the efficacy of negotiated hotel rates during the opening plenary session at the ACTE Global Summit in Amsterdam....

This week, BCD Travel opened up its Developer Hub, giving SolutionSource partners, other tech developers and even tech-savvy clients expanded access to BCD’s application programming interfaces....

TRIPBAM founder and CEO Steve Reynolds shared with BTN editor-in-chief Elizabeth West insights into his product’s recently released features and what is coming down the pipeline....

Among findings, online booking tools, expense reporting systems, mobile travel applications and traveler tracking systems form the core of travel management tech, each adopted by at least two-thirds...

Recently, Google announced a test of a new brand promise for its Flights product: a “lowest fare” price guarantee that offers cash refunds to travelers for overpaying on select itineraries....

Last night at the historic Blackstone Hotel, part of the Autograph Collection, BTN recognized ZS Associates’ travel operations coordinator Suzanne Boyan as the 2019 Travel Manager of the...

Chicago, IL – The Global Business Travel Associations—the voice of the business travel industry held its 5th Annual Media Day on August 4, 2019 at GBTA Convention 2019 in Chicago. Media...

Hotel shopping, benchmarking and analytics provider TRIPBAM today announced the release of its Hotel Intelligence 2.0 offering. The updated solution will allow travel managers, in real time, to...

As the hotel technology provider to hundreds of large, medium and small corporations, we get a unique perspective into what makes for a good hotel program and what...

Travelers hold the keys to a successful travel program. But to buy in, they need to understand what it’s for, how it works and why it’s a good...

One of the most frustrating aspects of hotel relationships for corporations is that the better the negotiated rate, the more often it shows as sold out. Hotels tinker...

Travel and Transport, a TMC, and TRIPBAM have partnered to provide global hotel re-shopping and analytics for business travel programs. The agreement encompasses Travel and Transport’s wholly-owned locations...

TRIPBAM today reported strong growth and savings for clients in the first few months of 2019. The company signed four additional travel management company (TMC) resellers, bringing the...

Hotel sourcing and management is one of the most complex processes travel buyers must wrap their heads around, especially for global programs using thousands of properties in dozens,...

TRIPBAM, the hotel shopping, benchmarking and analytics provider, has named Jeff Hillenmayer as executive vice president of account management and Brett Rance as account director Europe/Middle East/Africa....

Much has been written about aviation’s environmental impact, but how are hotels addressing sustainability?...

With another annual contracting season mostly in the rear view, the three largest travel management companies reported modest increases in their clients’ negotiated corporate hotel rates for 2019. At properties in...

TRIPBAM Hotel Intelligence is a new, first-of-its-kind solution designed with extensive input from TRIPBAM clients. It is the only tool in the market that allows travel managers in...

Le premier Carrefour des Experts 2019 convoqué par GBTA France s’est penché sur le dossier de l’automatisation dans le voyage d’affaires, en décryptant notamment le sujet des chatbots...

Industry colleagues gathered at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane last night to celebrate those recognised at the 2019 Business Travel Awards. The exclusive ceremony began...

TRIPBAM announces a new capability to enable travel managers to deliver the share that preferred hotel vendors deserve.  Using TRIPBAM’s patented clustering technology, traveler managers can now shift...

Corporate travel veteran, Steve Reynolds, is a hotel rate wonk and you’re the beneficiary.  Read on as the TRIPBAM founder dissects the arguments surrounding dynamic versus fixed rates,...

Tech Titans recognizes the top mid-size growth companies in tech in North Texas. TRIPBAM awarded third fastest growing company in North Texas from a list of 25 finalists....

Hotel rate shopping and analytics provider TRIPBAM has launched a new tool that, among other capabilities, allows travel managers to evaluate how accurately hotels, brands and chains apply...

Globally, professional services and Big Four auditing firm EY employs 255,000 people and operates out of 700 offices across more than 150 countries. As Hutchings put it, there’s...

BTN is revisiting the companies that since 2014 have won it’s Innovator Of the Year and People’s Choice Awards bestowed at the BTN’s group annual Innovate conference....

TRIPBAM’s Steve Reynolds says it’s time to start measuring hotel programs using new metrics. Static flat rates, RFPs are out. Long-term dynamic discounts monitored daily are in....

Corporate travel is extremely resistant to innovation because a select handful of gatekeepers make it difficult for new entrants to gain access to the content and data that...

Recently, our team at TRIPBAM has been hard at work to make sure we’re prepared well in advance of the May 25th General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance...

Steve Reynolds, CEO of hotel rate tracking tool TRIPBAM, said his company’s biggest innovations this year are a new analytics package with TRIPBAM’s proprietary lowest qualified rates and...

TRIPBAM is growing fast. What started as a rate-checking and re-shopping service now also can serve as a tool for hotel rate negotiations. Its analytics dashboard has evolved...

Our 15th annual Global Hotel Corporate Travel Survey suggests slightly stronger support for RevPAR growth in 2018 in nearly all regions, both on room rate and volume, with...

In June, Marriott International announced a new 48-hour cancellation policy, with a one-night payment penalty if you didn’t cancel before then. In July, Hilton followed with their own...

Despite initial concerns from the corporate travel community regarding Marriott’s new 48-hour cancellation policy, one corporate travel services provider says these new booking policies won’t hurt corporate travelers...

Ask parties on both sides of the negotiating table what they think about the annual hotel RFP season, and more often than not, they’ll say it’s an inefficient,...

Not too long ago, I had a client tell me about a consistent problem that was coming up among her travelers. Everyone and their brother, it seems, was...

Dynamic pricing and new fare-tracking tools are creating a complex, fast-moving environment for travel procurement. Is the growth of dynamic pricing by suppliers, combined with the use of...

TRIPBAM, the hotel rate shopping service innovator, and TrustYou, the world’s largest guest feedback platform, today announced a strategic partnership between the companies. The agreement will allow TRIPBAM...

Both TRIPBAM and TripRebel have targeted the corporate market with software that re-shops booked hotels for better deals. The former is expanding into Europe with a London office...

In 2016, major hotel companies revamped their loyalty programs and introduced direct booking discounts linked to loyalty membership....

Welcome to the era of unpredictability. As traveler experience and technology shift the lodging landscape, what’s next is anything but predictable....

Many executives in the corporate travel space are planning for expansion and growth in the year ahead. The question on everyone’s mind is whether global and economic events...

Abercrombie & Fitch and American Cancer Societyshave over $60 per night, on average, on a hotel room when it finds savings through Hotel Price Assurance. The service, provided by...

The total cost implications of third-party bookings is being lost on many asset managers who focus on average daily rate, as opposed to net rate....

A presentation and discussion highlighting several new ways to improve hotel procurement by utilizing new technology, hotel rate benchmarks, advanced analytics and more....

TRIPBAM CEO, Steve Reynolds, presents at GBTA’s Center Stage, detailing TRIPBAM’s service and its success to-date....

TRIPBAM, the new hotel shopping service, introduced TRIPBAM Analytics, a new data service built specifically for corporate travel managers....

GoldSpring Consulting and TRIPBAM will partner on corporate travel client hotel sourcing projects. The companies have, between them, TRIPBAM’s hotel rate-shopping tool, which continuously queries a single hotel...

Corporate Travel CEO Series: The Brewing Conflict Between Hotels and Travel Managers. Interview with TRIPBAM CEO Steve Reynolds....

Business Travel Direct is set to introduce a series of new enhancements from hotel shopping tool TRIPBAM. BTD, which was the first TMC to partner with TRIPBAM in...

Vanishing LRA? TRIPBAM may not uncover why, but can alert travel managers about when they should have gotten their negotiated rate and didn’t. Corporates can go back and...

TRIPBAM, the new hotel shopping service, capped an impressive year of growth with recognition from Business Travel News and Phocuswright. Earlier this week, BTN named TRIPBAM founder and...

TRIPBAM wins the Phocuswright Battleground event. View this video of the winning presentation. TRIPBAM is currently processing 100K bookings a day, working with 15 of the 20 top...

Teplis Travel has announced it is adopting the latest service to assist travel managers in ensuring their travelers always get the lowest hotel rate in the marketplace. The...

Let’s agree that all our friends and colleagues who are in the midst of yet another grueling hotel RFP season should have our sympathies. Hang in there, friends,...

Today’s announcement comes after BCD’s pilot with the automated hotel rate-shopping platform, which began last July. BCD senior vice president of strategic marketing April Bridgeman said the pilot helped...

TRIPBAM has deployed an enhancement targeted at corporate hotel programs that ensures travelers are booked at the rate that is contracted for their company. TRIPBAM’s new service addresses...

After a platform upgrade, travel agents can now identify commissionable rates using the hotel shopping service TRIPBAM. Prior to the upgrade, the TRIPBAM platform only ferreted out hotel...

Buying Business Travel magazine profiles TRIPBAM founder and CEO Steve Reynolds, shortly after Steve presented at the April 2015 Institute of Travel Management conference in Edinburgh, Scotland....

Concur, the travel industry’s leading business travel and expense service provider, announces in this post that TRIPBAM is now available to Concur’s thousands of corporate clients....

TRIPBAM, the new hotel shopping service, won the Business Travel Supplier Innovation Award at The Business Travel News Group’s inaugural Innovate Conference in New York last week....

BCD Travel is piloting with a small group of corporate clients the use of automated hotel rate shopping tool TRIPBAM and plans to expand availability this summer, the...

TRIPBAM’s ability to deliver hotel rate savings is highlighted in this high-profile WSJ story on new innovations impacting the hotel industry....