Orbitz for Business introduced a mobile website enabling road warriors to book flights, hotels and cars while complying with corporate policy and also view and manage their itineraries.
GetThere, the Sabre-owned corporate booking tool, yesterday announced the introduction of its own mobile website solution, which facilitates hotel bookings in accordance with corporate policy. Road warriors using GetThere Mobile, however, will have to wait a bit for air and car rental booking capabilities, and integration of itinerary management functionality is under way, but not complete.
To build their respective mobile solutions, both Orbitz for Business and GetThere eschewed the downloadable apps route and used HTML5.
Orbitz for Business claims it is "the first major online travel company to launch an end-to-end mobile solution that allows business travelers to search and book flights, hotels and car rentals directly from any web-enabled smartphone."
In addition to air, car and hotel bookings, the Orbitz for Business mobile website enables customers to track their trip details through My Trips, share their itineraries, and cancel reservations.
Users of the Orbitz for Business mobile site also can receive flight alerts and Traveler updates.