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Grab Notches $200M Investment From Booking Holdings

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based Booking Holdings amid a strategic partnership. With the tie-up, users of Booking Holdings’ apps will be able to call for Grab vehicles, while users of Grab’s app will able to book travel services, Reuters reported. Southeast Asia’s Grab has taken in a $200 million investment from U.S.-based

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Badi Rolls Out AI Room Booking App In NY

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In another case, Roost allows travelers to book hotels and find roommates. Next, they can select in which neighborhoods or regions they would like to stay. By tapping into behavioral information, Badi can provide “more quality connections between renter and seeker,” per the company.

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Taking A Sharing Economy Approach To Hotel Booking

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That idea gradually morphed into Roost, which allows consumers to book a hotel and find a roommate. They can then choose the regions or neighborhoods in which they are comfortable staying, and pay for their room with a credit or debit card via Stripe. The Platform.

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Klook CPO Liu Outlines Travel Booking Platform’s Global Expansion

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Having $1 billion in bookings and more than 200 destinations globally – those are big numbers, to be sure, but these are not stats gleaned from an airline. As for Klook itself, the company operates with an effort to streamline the process of booking travel activities that can span visits to attractions, hotels and restaurants.

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Text Messaging Is The New Way To Book Flights On Spirit Airlines 

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Travelers will then click a link to finish the booking. Airlines want more bookings to take place on their own sites, rather than third-party travel agencies. A Spirit Airlines chatbot will collect basic information and then a Spirit agent will take over, spokesman Haven Kaplan told CNBC.

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Travelport, Conferma Continue Push For V-Card Adoption For Aussie Hotel Bookings

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11) that it is expanding its partnership with virtual card company Conferma to ease use of v-cards for corporate travel bookings of hotels for clients in Australia and New Zealand. Travel management companies (TMCs) can centrally settle their hotel bookings using Conferma’s virtual card technology, the firms explained.

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FlitWays Steers Toward Europe With Corporate Travel Booking Tool

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FlitWays Technology , a company enabling ground transportation booking, is expanding its B2B offering across Europe. 22) said FlitWays is launching its business travel booking tool in London, Milan, Berlin, Paris and Barcelona to address businesses’ ground transportation management and expense management needs in these markets.

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