Steve Hafner on Why KAYAK is Going Deeper in Business Travel
Metasearch platform Kayak entered the business travel arena in late 2019, with the beta version of its free Kayak for Business tool for small- and medium-sized companies. After 20 months of testing, the full launch came in July 2021 and since then, Kayak says more than 30,000 companies have used the product.
In the midst of developing that solution, Kayak has been quietly developing a more advanced version targeted to large corporations in partnership with Blockskye, a startup developing a blockchain-based solution for corporate travel.
Since 2018, Blockskye had been developing its system through tests with United Airlines and a corporate client that was not named at that time. In 2020, Blockskye approached Kayak about creating the booking tool for this new enterprise travel solution.
