Hotel reshopping platform Tripbam now offers a certification
programme for managed travel consultants to use the company's technology to
source and manage corporate hotel programmes, the company announced.
To achieve the certification, Tripbam currently offers three
1.5-hour courses, held weekly and by webinar, with each followed by an online
exam. Consultants must pass each exam to advance to the next level and will be
required to attend future classes to maintain their certification, said Tripbam
CEO Steve Reynolds in an email.
The courses include Tripbam Overview, which covers all of
the company's services, clients and agency relationships; Tripbam Daily Rate
Audit Analytics, a deep dive into the analytics behind the company's daily rate
auditing and shopping tools; and Hotel Intelligence, which covers the dashboard
that measures preferred hotel, brand and chain performance, sourcing
opportunities and year-over-year comparisons, among other data. The company is currently
certifying about 40 individual consultants, Reynolds said. Participating
companies have included Areka Consulting, GoldSpring Consulting and Nina &
Pinta Consulting, among others. There is no cost to take the courses and exams.
Tripbam's goal is to change the way companies source hotels
by eliminating the annual hotel requests-for-proposals season and enabling
companies to switch to dynamic hotel agreements that renew annually.