Fresh off garnering People's Choice honors at BTN's recent Innovation Faceoff, Tripkicks has signed a partnership with travel management company Executive Travel. Under the pact, Executive Travel will integrate Tripkicks' messaging platform into its online booking tool, enabling corporate travel managers to deliver travel alerts related to Covid-19 and other relevant information to their employees within the booking flow.
Originally launched in 2017 as a corporate travel budgeting and rewards platform, Tripkicks earlier this year pivoted toward offering customized real-time messaging and alerts via a booking tool add-on, with the ultimate goal of supporting companies' return to business travel activity.
In late October, Tripkicks' new offering beat out nine other Innovation Faceoff competitors to be voted People's Choice winner by attendees at BTN's Innovate conference, conducted virtually this year. At the time of the competition, Tripkicks only was live with Concur Travel, but CEO Jeff Berk said the company was in active talks to integrate its platform with other OBTs.