Business Travel
Hotel Engine | July 20, 2023
Travel technology leader Hotel Engine today announced a first-of-its-kind promotion for new customers to save big on future bookings. Beginning July 19th, 2023, new customers who sign up and book $500 or more before the end of July will receive 25% back on their spend to use on future stays in the form of Hotel Engine Travel Credits.
To qualify, new users must:
Be a new Hotel Engine customer and sign up to join the platform with their business email here
Book at least $500 in rooms before July 31, and complete the stays before October 1, 2023
“We’re on a mission to radically simplify trip management and are confident that our platform offers businesses and travelers the best solution on the market,” said Elia Wallen, Hotel Engine founder and CEO. “We hope this promotion will help new customers experience how Hotel Engine can save them valuable time and money on their lodging programs, especially in this economic environment when every dollar counts.”
Trusted by more than 40,000 businesses of all sizes, Hotel Engine is a free-to-use hotel booking engine for businesses focused on securing the best possible rates, delivering exceptional customer service and providing intuitive, flexible bookings tools. Key attributes of the platform include:
Cost Savings: Hotel Engine offers up to 60% off rates through relationships with direct hotel partners and wholesalers. And with its free cost savings calculator, Hotel Engine helps customers estimate the potential cost advantages of booking accommodations through its platform.
Secure, Consolidated Billing: All reservations at any hotel are consolidated into a single monthly statement, eliminating both the need to chase down endless invoices and the potential for fraud.
Rewards & Loyalty Pass-Through: Customers have access to Hotel Engine’s robust rewards program and their favorite hotel chains, including Hilton Honors, Marriott Bonvoy and more. With more than 700,000 hotel partners worldwide, customers don't have to compromise on the hotels they want to stay at or the rewards programs they want to maximize.
Intuitive Booking Insights: Data-driven reporting and customized visibility into every company's travel program is available to help companies make more informed decisions.
Free Live Support: Hotel Engine's in-house team provides 24/7 support, with virtually no wait times.
Last month the company announced significant enhancements to Groups, the platform’s intelligent group booking solution, making it easier for member companies to save time and avoid hassle when booking large or complex reservations. Hotel Engine also released FlexPro, a first-of-its-kind industry subscription that provides companies with complete flexibility to cancel or modify any reservation.
About Hotel Engine
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Denver, Hotel Engine is one of the world’s fast-growing hotel booking engines. The company is on a mission to radically simplify trip management for businesses through rapid innovation and customer obsession. Its Double-sided marketplace connects ~40,000 member companies to a growing portfolio of 700,000+ global partner hotels to create a smarter and more rewarding business travel network.
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Business Travel
businesswire | August 10, 2023
Jurny, the world’s leading vertically integrated, AI-powered property management solution, and Turno, the global leader in vacation rental cleaning management, announced a partnership positioned to advance hospitality today. Together, the companies offer everyone from single property hosts to management companies with geographically dispersed portfolios the ability to easily control the most crucial components for efficient vacation rental management seamlessly from one dashboard.
“It’s exciting to partner with another company that shares the same dedication to empowering hosts with automation tools to optimize their vacation rental businesses," said Luca Zambello, CEO and co-founder of Jurny. "This collaboration reinforces our shared commitment to delivering the most robust technology on the market for eliminating the billions of dollars wasted each year in operational inefficiencies."
Through this partnership, hosts and property managers get a holistic and seamless platform to automate and streamline their entire operations, from guest acquisition to check-out and cleaning management. Now, anyone can sign up for Jurny’s free single-click Airbnb connection, GPT-4 powered property management system (PMS) and gain instant access to Turno's best-in-class cleaning management software to effortlessly source cleaning professionals, schedule cleanings, track inventory, and manage cleaner communications. The powerful integration delivers lightning-fast booking updates, reliable connection stability and up-time, and significant guest and reservation data; all managed from Jurny’s easy-to-use dashboard.
"This collaboration unlocks exciting access and benefits for short-term and vacation rental hosts across the globe," said Assaf Karmon, CEO and co-founder of Turno. “Jurny and Turno users will enjoy a single access point to simplify, automate, manage, and grow their short-term rental businesses.”
To discover more about Jurny, experience the power of its new AI tools, and explore the integrated benefits of Turno’s automated cleaning management solution, visit Jurny.com. For more information on Turno and its mission to solve cleaning for the vacation rental industry, visit Turno.com
About Jurny, Inc
Jurny is the world’s leading vertically integrated, AI-powered property management solution transforming hotels and short-term rental hosts' operations. Founded in 2019 and backed by renowned VC firms Mucker Capital, Okapi Venture Capital, VITALIZE Venture Capital, Singularity Capital and SaaS Venture Capital, Jurny is streamlining processes, reducing operational costs, and delivering unparalleled customer satisfaction for the $4.7 trillion global hospitality industry.
About Turno
Turno's SaaS platform and Cleaner Marketplaces help vacation rental operators schedule, pay, and find cleaners. Features include auto-scheduling, auto payment, in-app chat, photo checklists, reporting tools, and other easy-to-use quality assurance solutions to simplify and automate recurring property services. Offering 24/7 live customer support and available in six languages, Turno syncs guest calendars from all major booking platforms and 20+ channel managers and property management systems. Turno's localized Cleaner Marketplaces include vetted STR service providers across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.
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businesswire | June 29, 2023
Leading travel technology company Amadeus and Emburse, the global leader in spend optimization, are joining forces through a strategic partnership to better address the business travel demands of global enterprises. The partnership will ensure a seamless experience from trip planning and booking, through to expense reporting, reconciliation, reimbursements and spend analytics.
This relationship delivers more choice to enterprises that are looking for an integrated suite of modern, sophisticated travel spend management tools, without having to compromise on quality by being tied to a single vendor.
Amadeus and Emburse can now deliver a fully integrated solution to new customers, as well as offering each other’s solutions to current customers. Amadeus will promote Emburse Chrome River as a recommended integrated expense management offering to corporations in the United States and specific markets in Europe (UK, Scandinavia and Benelux), while Emburse will add Cytric Travel and Cytric Easy for Microsoft Teams to its portfolio of travel spend optimization solutions.
“Emburse and Amadeus have had data integrations for some time, and we share a number of high-profile customers, but with this partnership, we’re really taking things to the next level,” said Eric Friedrichsen, CEO of Emburse. “The two companies offer a number of complementary solutions that span the entire business travel journey. This relationship enables us to empower global enterprises with state-of-the-art tools that offer greater simplicity for their end-users, while creating value for the enterprise through greater visibility and more efficient travel spending.”
Through the global reach of this partnership and their commitment to innovation, Amadeus Cytric Solutions and Emburse can now offer a compelling alternative that not only meets the travel and expense (T&E) requirements of global enterprises with complex travel programs but also elevates the impact to a global business through the enablement of travel analytics, travel companion apps and integrated card programs.
“This partnership enables us to go beyond managing travel booking and expense. By leveraging our two companies’ complementary strengths, we are greatly enhancing the traveler’s digital and mobile experience and corporations’ travel spend and policy management throughout the entire travel journey. All of this will enable corporations to optimize their travel spend in terms of cost, carbon emission and productivity collaboration,” said Rudy Daniello, Executive Vice President, Amadeus Cytric Solutions.
The two companies will continue working together to collaborate and innovate in building end to end spend management.
About Amadeus
Travel powers progress. Amadeus powers travel. Amadeus’ solutions connect travelers to the journeys they want through travel agents, search engines, tour operators, airlines, airports, hotels, cars and railways.
We have developed our technology in partnership with the travel industry for over 30 years. We combine a deep understanding of how people travel with the ability to design and deliver the most complex, trusted, critical systems our customers need. In 2019, we helped connect over 1.9 billion people to local travel providers in over 190 countries.
We have a global mindset and a local presence wherever our customers need us. Our purpose is to shape the future of travel. We are passionate in our pursuit of better technology that makes better journeys.
Amadeus is an IBEX 35 company, listed on the Spanish Stock Exchange under AMS.MC. The company has also been recognized by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the last eleven years.
About Emburse
Emburse is a modern spend management company offering solutions that revolutionize the way organizations manage employee expenses, process invoices and make payments. Emburse humanizes work by empowering business travelers, finance professionals, and CFOs to eliminate manual, time-consuming tasks, so they can focus on what matters most.
Its innovative offerings, which are tailored to meet the unique business needs of specific industries, company sizes, and geographies, are trusted by more than 9 million users in more than 120 countries. Over 18,000 customers, from start-ups to global enterprises, including Bosch, Grant Thornton, Telefónica, Lufthansa Systems, and Toyota, rely on Emburse to make faster, smarter decisions, improve compliance, and optimize spend -- making corporate spend deliver meaningful value for the organization.
Emburse is recognized as a leader in expense management and accounts payable automation by analyst firm IDC, and has received multiple awards for innovation and its high levels of customer satisfaction.
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