Sonder Targets Business Travel by Partnering With Expedia's Egencia, TripActions and Others
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Sonder has been misunderstood by some. It offers both short-term rental and traditional hotel lodging, and it has mostly appealed to leisure travelers, not business people, so far. The startup's outreach to business travelers could change all that.
Sonder, which offers travel lodging through a mix of traditional hotels and short-term rentals in apartment buildings, wants to appeal more to business travelers. The San Francisco-based startup announced on Wednesday that it is partnering with a number of travel management companies such as Expedia Group's Egencia and TripActions to make its inventory more readily available to business travelers.
The move comes shortly ahead of the annual request-for-proposal (RFP) process that corporations often follow to plan upcoming business travel as a rebound in in-person meetings is expected in the U.S. It also is yet another sign that so-called alternative accommodation by travel startups is going mainstream in the pandemic era. The move also comes after Sonder reached a merger agreement with blank check company Gores Metropoulos II wit
