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Workgrounds Raises $2.6 Million to Streamline Hotel Room Block Management With AI
Serial entrepreneurs Nikhil Sethi and Garrett Ullom have founded an AI startup to improve hotel room bookings. Called Workgrounds, it promises to automate the manual processes surrounding corporate group travel with its “end-to-end stack.” The company has raised $2.6 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate its mission, with participation from Oceans Ventures, Hannah Grey, Volo […]
Welcome to Hotel AI
Editor’s Note: This post about hoteliers using AI was originally published on the now-defunct All Turtles blog in July 2018. You can read other articles I’ve written for that site here. It’s 2 a.m. on Thursday morning by the time you’ve arrived at the hotel and no one is around. Weary after traveling all day, you approach […]
Expedia Morphs Into A Travel Data Platform, With New Apps And Planning Tools
In the days before the rise of Airbnb, Kayak.com, Hipmunk, TripIt, and a slew of other travel-related services, three dominant forces dominated the travel industry: Orbitz, Travelocity, and Expedia. They still remain in operation today, but much of the spotlight has been shone on the likes of Kayak and Airbnb, with the latter being defined as a “decacorn”—a startup […]
Urbandig Gets You Lost So You Can Explore Hidden Locales
Nearly four years ago, I moved to San Francisco to find a job. During the first two years, it was then that I decided to get out and explore the new city that I now lived in. For me, and perhaps lots of people who visit new places, looking for things that are off the […]
Discover America Site Aims to Drive U.S. Tourism
So I found out that the Discover America website, a collaboration of the US Department of Commerce with the Travel Industry Association of America, is slowly getting itself back up on its feet. They have a great partnership with Disney, Travelocity, Yahoo, and American Express and you can sign up to receive a newsletter with […]