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Uber for Corporate Travel Sales Leads
Tucker Johnson | April 9, 2018
By Tucker Johnson In 2017, CNN reported that Uber passed Starbucks as the most common expense for a business traveler. When I read that article last year I remember thinking it seemed unbelievable, since I had only used Uber a handful of times. I hadn't thought much about that article until a few days ago. That's when one of my students (who drives for Uber) mentioned that he earned almost $700 dollars over the weekend driving in San Antonio during the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four. Although the money was an impressive part of the story, what really fascinated me was the access he was able to obtain by having the Uber emblem on his w...
Your Hotels Location, Location – and Uber Availability?
Tucker Johnson | March 13, 2017
By Tucker Johnson, Instructional Assistant Professor at University of Houston It's long been said that the three most important things in real estate are location, location, location. I have agreed with this assessment having worked at properties in prime locations and less than desirable locations. Last week, however, I began to question this age-old adage. I live in Texas but am attending a wedding in Chicago this summer and was looking at making hotel reservations. I wanted to be close to the wedding location, but all of the hotels nearby were in the $300-$400 per night price range. This wedding happens to occur on Father's D...
Three Things Hotel Marketers Can Learn From Uber
Tambourine | June 8, 2016
Over the last 10 years, industry disruptors have rocked the business world in ways we've never seen before, and leading the charge is disruption's poster child, Uber. Not only has it streamlined getting anywhere in the world's major cities, Uber's visionary business model is a goldmine of lessons for hotel marketers. Their model nourishes their own growth, with their incredible way of combining a smooth payment system, customer-focused service delivery and smart and nimble use of mobile technology. This has left taxi companies reeling from a drastic loss in market share, customer loyalty and brand security with every passing day. Uber i...
An Uber Point of View on Airbnb
Larry Mogelonsky | April 20, 2016
By Larry Mogelonsky, MBA, P. Eng. (www.lma.ca) As of this writing, my home city of Toronto has been locked in a bitter, years-long feud between the established taxi companies and Uber, with legislation moving back and forth through the halls of municipal government. The taxis' position is that Uber drivers don't have to go through anywhere near the same number of legal hoops (read: upfront expenses) in order to serve customers, all while Uber drivers simply keep on driving. Putting aside personal judgments on this case or any preceding one, I can't help but think of the parallels this has with Airbnb and its disruptive impact on the hos...
