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Articles tagged “getaroom”

Online Travel

Exclusive: Major Hotel Chain Won Financial Protections in TripAdvisor Instant Booking

As TripAdvisor Instant Booking kicks into gear it appears as though it is breaking new ground and becoming a hotel-friendly channel -- for chains that sign up, that is. Chains such as Hilton Worldwide and InterContinental Hotels Group, which have not hopped on the bandwagon, can probably afford to sit on the sidelines for awhile to gauge how the whole thing shakes out.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Exclusive: Major Hotel Chain Won Financial Protections in TripAdvisor Instant Booking

Online Travel

Getaroom Gives Up on Brand-Building and Pivots to B2B

There's nothing wrong with a startup pivot. Even successful online travel industry veterans Bob Diener and David Litman had to change the trajectory of Getaroom.com when they realized their initial assumptions didn't work.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Getaroom Gives Up on Brand-Building and Pivots to B2B

Hotels

Getaroom’s Diener and Litman doing it their way two decades after Hotels.com gave hoteliers fits

Getaroom is a niche player, but it is steadily growing and its unpublished rates over the phone are very appealing. Traditional online players may want to rethink their call center outsourcing and current practices.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Getaroom’s Diener and Litman doing it their way two decades after Hotels.com gave hoteliers fits