Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Innovations in the Travel Industry: BackBid

BackBid is a hotel booking website that revolutionizes how travelers book hotel rooms. BackBid empowers you, the traveler, to find the best possible hotel room, for the best price, with no elaborate or time-consuming searches necessary. By posting your existing hotel reservation to BackBid, hotels are able to see your travel plans and offer bids for your business, offering either discounts or value-added services, like upgraded rooms, free parking or breakfast. 
How does it work?
  1. Travellers book their hotel stay as they normally would through their channel of choice.
  2. The traveller posts their confirmed reservation and travel preferences on the site as a BackBid Traveller.
  3. BackBid provides hotels with instant access to the database of all BackBid Travellers traveling to their destination. Hotels can then submit bids to encourage travellers to abandon their current reservation and book with their property instead.
  4. BackBid Travellers are notified of all hotel bids via email and can access the details by logging into their BackBid account.
  5. Once the BackBid Traveller accepts a bid, the reservation and the payment are processed by the hotel.

Unlike other travel sites who offer discounts without telling you any info about the hotel that you’re booking, BackBid gives you all of the details about the property, the amenities offered and the specific bid being offered before you confirm and process the reservation. This helps you to save money but also to ensure that your hotel stay will meet – or even exceed – all of your expectations. Travellers that are not currently holding confirmed reservations can receive bids from hotels by posting their needs, preferences, and travel plans on the site.


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