The number of websites that are designed to help you save on hotels is overwhelming, but Tweetstay from Stayful takes easy travel booking a step further. In order to score a top travel deal, all you need to do is fill in a template of a tweet to @stayful specifying your destination, desired price range, arrival date and number of nights.
Stayful's social team then gets to work, making negotiations with participating hotels and providing you with a link on Twitter with a deal that's better than you'll find on your own. Stayful is able to secure these lower prices as a result of vacancy, since hotels are anxious to fill rooms. Stayful’s co-founder and CEO Cheryl Rosner describes: "Hotels want to make sure they book all their rooms, and travelers want a great deal. Since we negotiate prices behind the scenes in real time, we can offer TweetStay customers a better price than they can find online."
What's Driving This Trend
- Social Travel Booking
- Stayful's #Tweetstay simplifies travel booking by allowing users to submit a tweet with their desired destination, price range, and other details to receive personalized and discounted hotel deals.
- Online Hotel Savings
- Stayful's Tweetstay taps into hotels' need to fill vacant rooms and negotiates real-time discounts for customers, disrupting the traditional online hotel booking process.
- Real-time Price Negotiation
- Stayful's social team negotiates prices with participating hotels behind the scenes, offering customers better deals by leveraging vacancies and providing real-time offers on Twitter.
Who This Affects Most
- Travel and Accommodation
- The travel and accommodation industry can benefit from adopting social travel booking platforms like Stayful's #Tweetstay, which streamline the booking process and offer customers better prices.
- Online Travel Agencies
- Online travel agencies can explore incorporating real-time price negotiation features into their platforms, similar to Stayful's Tweetstay, to provide customers with more competitive and personalized hotel deals.
- Hotel and Hospitality
- Hotels and hospitality businesses can leverage social travel booking trends like Stayful's Tweetstay to optimize room occupancy and ensure revenue generation through real-time, discounted deals.
