WASHINGTON – Travel booking platform GoBumpFree is at IPW in Washington, D.C. this week showing hotels and resorts its solution to distressed and last-minute inventory.
GoBumpFree is pairing its exclusive customer base of airline employees and retirees (frequent, influential travelers) with last-minute empty rooms at top hotels and resorts. To attract this customer base, GoBumpFree offers its Ultimate Protection Policy—including free cancellation—for its customers in the event they are “bumped” from their flights, which is a risk for airline employees flying standby.
“Airline employees are spontaneous, last-minute travelers. And hotels and resorts have last minute empty rooms. We offer the solution for both parties,” says Donna Lavallee, president and founder of GoBumpFree.
Distressed inventory is a critical problem for hotels and resorts carefully managing yield. GoBumpFree aims to help solve this problem by having hotels and resorts list their properties on a fenced, members only site so that they can fill those rooms with frequent, last minute travelers.
“We say that any empty hotel room is a room that could have accommodated one of our VIP customers,” says Guy Shaham, Director of Business Development. “Our customers are frequent travelers, and they visit their favorite destinations again and again. They’re the ideal hotel guest, and they travel last minute.”
Getting bumped from a standby flight is a risk and aggravation for airline employees and retirees.
“I was an airline employee for many years, and it was great to fly for free,” says Lavallee. “But because of the risk of getting bumped and paying hotel cancellation fees, this fear keeps airline employees from taking advantage of their travel benefits.”
How does GoBumpFree work? Airline employees register at GoBumpFree.com and get access to exclusive rates that can only be booked by registered members. Customers book trips within 72-hours of check-in and receive free cancellation if they get bumped from their flight, or are delayed for any other reason. They simply SMS/text a cancellation request to GoBumpFree, and the rest is taken care of. This allows airline employees to finally take full advantage of last-minute travel without the risk of cancellation fees.
GoBumpFree protects its hotel and resort partners by paying any necessary cancellation fees on behalf of their customers, if applicable.
GoBumpFree is at IPW this week. Contact their sales and partnerships team at info@gobumpfree.com.
Media Contact:
Donna Lavallee
donna@gobumpfree.com
+1 902 877 6117
Sales and Partnership Contacts:
Guy Shaham, Director of Business Development: guy@gobumpfree.com
Jessie Colondres, Director of Strategic Partnerships: jessie@gobumpfree.com
About GoBumpFree:
GoBumpFree is a new travel booking platform, specializing in connecting airline employees and retirees with last-minute accommodations in the world’s top hotels and resorts. Founded by former airline employee Donna Lavallee, the company aims to become the travel booking platform of choice for the airline industry, and has hundreds of direct contracts with hotels and resorts, and partnership agreements with several top airlines.
About IPW:
“More than 1,000 U.S. travel organizations from every region of the USA (representing all industry category components), and close to 1,200 international and domestic buyers from more than 70 countries, conduct business negotiations that result in the generation of more than $4.7 billion in future travel to the U.S. At IPW, buyers and sellers are able to conduct business that would otherwise be generated only through an exhaustive number of around-the-world trips.” – https://www.ustravel.org/events/ipw
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