Exclusive: Booking.com Finally Enters the Corporate Travel Business


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Business travel is a natural extension of Booking.com's already giant leisure business. If it really takes hold, though, the company will have to treat it as much more of an entity in its own right than as merely a convenient add-on.
With millions of business travelers already using its websites to book hotels, Booking.com decided to finally seize the opportunity and has quietly launched Booking.com for Business, which is geared for small businesses without managed travel programs. Company managers or administrators can create Booking.com for Business accounts for free, book rooms for their employees, or send their staff invitations and they can book the travel on their own. The administrators can coordinate company bookings and review reports by department, team or individual employees. Employees using Booking.com for Business can also book their leisure travel there, although only their business