Can Business Travel Ever Be Buttery Smooth? — Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report
Photo Credit: Tech solutions are trying to make business travel more smooth, but adoption is far from universal. In this photo, a business travelers is shown at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Flickr / sj carey
Skift Take
Making business travel smoother and less painful is an admirable goal. But what's the best way to do that? We expect to see even more technology solutions crop up to try to answer that question.
The Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report is our weekly newsletter focused on the future of corporate travel, the big fault lines of disruption for travel managers and buyers, the innovations emerging from the sector, and the changing business traveler habits that are upending how corporate travel is packaged, bought, and sold.
Lola, the year-old booking app powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and real-life travel consultants, is changing course to focus on business travel rather than leisure. While the company, founded by Kayak co-founder Paul English, isn't talking much about its new direction yet, senior writer Andrew Sheivachman put together all the news the company has revealed in a story this week.
The rebranding the well-funded startup has done is telling. The company now proclaims: "Lola is on a mission to make business travel buttery smooth," which sounds more like a description of Chardonnay than any business trips we've taken.
English has said the company
