Hotel Alerts and Counter Offers Feature Poised to Disrupt Travel Industry
LOS ANGELES, November 13, 2014 — WorldMate Inc., a Carlson Wagonlit Travel company, secured the Most Innovative Established Company Award at the PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit, beating out dozens of highly regarded companies. This accolade recognizes WorldMate?s Hotel Price Alerts and Counter Offers as the most innovative and potentially disruptive travel technology of 2014.
The company presented its breakthrough technology to a crowd of industry executives and a panel of travel experts. In the Hotel Price Alert live demonstration, WorldMate showcased the app?s ability to alert the traveler when the rate for a previously booked hotel has dropped and then to cancel automatically the original reservation and re-book at a significant discount. Hotel Counter Offers went one step further providing an upgraded hotel while still saving money from the original booking. During the 7-minute presentation, WorldMate revealed that these innovations save travelers an average of $88 per trip and the entire process takes less than one minute requiring as few as 8 clicks.
?WorldMate has remained at the leading edge of travel industry innovation since 2000,? said Amir Kirshenboim, WorldMate CEO. ?Price Alerts and Counter Offers are the culmination of over 100 man-years of engineering and are only possible because of the amazing efforts of our talented and dedicated team.?
These recent features are the latest manifestations of WorldMate?s tradition of first-to-market innovations. Hotel Price Alerts and Counter Offers are built upon WorldMate?s core technology including Email Parsing, Itinerary Management, and the patent-pending LinkCatch, which harvests actionable links in a travel confirmation email to automate the booking and cancellation process.
The PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Award is the sixth win in a row for WorldMate covering numerous competitions in the travel and mobile industries. The highly acclaimed app is available for free on the iTunes app store.
About WorldMate
WorldMate, Inc., a Carlson Wagonlit Travel company, serves over 11 million business travelers by managing their itineraries, guiding them through every
aspect of their trips and saving them time, money and headaches along the way. Travelers simply forward their confirmation emails to [email protected], and WorldMate takes care of the rest ? flight alerts, the booking of last-minute hotels and car rentals, weather forecasts, currencies conversions and much more.
For more information, visit www.worldmate.com.