Things change fast in the world of business travel, and your policy needs to keep up As the corporate travel manager, you understand how important it ...
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A recent rash of selfie-inflicted accidents has me wondering — should we ban the selfie? A tourist from China plunged 1,000 feet to his death at the ...
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SMEs don't have the budgets or time to make do with traditional travel management companies. Where will they turn? (A version of this article was ...
Read MoreCreate an employee-friendly travel policy. Learn how to save on travel spend. Get stress-free travel guidance. Dive deep into technical know-how. Lola’s blogs are chock-full of insight for travel managers and travelers alike. Enjoy!
Daylight savings time confuses a lot of people, but no one more than frequent corporate travelers? So are we all agreed on what time it is now? Let’s ...
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New platforms have emerged to help companies manage corporate travel — what sets the best tools apart? The right corporate travel management tool can ...
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The State Dept. recently added Antarctica to its Travel Advisory list — what does this mean for corporate travel managers? Even if you’re a research ...
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Lola.com is the #1 travel management platform on G2 Crowd and has the highest customer satisfaction score on the market — but we’re not stopping ...
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Your corporate travel program won’t manage itself — how can you bring in the perfect person for the job? You’ve gotten this far without a “real” ...
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Is it finally time to pump the brakes on our dream of high-speed travel? Two recent travel-news items caught my attention. One said that supersonic ...
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Any effective travel program needs organizational buy-in — here are 7 ways to get support for yours Small and mid-size companies need to get a grip ...
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Brexit planning, rampaging monkeys, and the disappearing breakfast are just a few of the weird things happening in the travel world The late blues ...
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$37M in new funding will help us build an even better product and double headcount, but this was not a typical financing round — here’s what happened ...
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Episode 4 of ‘Road Warrior Radio’ featuring Josh Allen, CRO of Drift
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Business travel can feel like a burden but small things, like collecting loyalty points, can make a huge difference for frequent travelers
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Corporate travel isn't only tough on the folks doing the travel — it can also take a toll on the back office Your company’s frequent travelers think ...
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People who travel regularly for work have specific preferences about how they travel — are their employers on the same page? Do you prefer a downtown ...
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Corporate travelers routinely sacrifice personal and family time to travel for work — are their employers doing enough to make it up to them? Let’s ...
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A new study from Lola.com reveals how corporate travel managers equip their travelers for success on the road. We talk a lot about traveling for ...
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Episode 3 of ‘Road Warrior Radio’ featuring Bart McDonough, CEO of Agio
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Lola.com joins other New England tech innovators to support workforce development initiative for minority workers pursuing careers in STEM BOSTON – ...
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Episode 1 of 'Table Fries' featuring Lola.com Vice President of Travel Service and People Operations, Stacey Scott.
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Lola.com and American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) teamed up to bring clarity to the mystifying world of business travel Corporate travel is ...
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Lola.com sits down with its business travel columnist to discuss his 16 years writing weekly “on the road” columns for The New York Times, his ...
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Managing business travel isn’t easy — but if you find someone with the right skill set it gets a lot easier If you think managing your company’s ...
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How focusing on our 1:1’s allows Lola.com to be even more agile in our operations. Last week I sat down with our CEO, Mike Volpe to discuss the ...
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From initial booking to submitting expenses, managing corporate travel can be a full time job. Lola.com breaks down the 5 ways to manage corporate ...
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When employees book travel outside of policy it makes it hard to control expenses and forecast spend — what can you do to keep them in line? Managing ...
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Most corporate travel solutions are too unwieldy or too opaque — is there an option that’s ‘just right’? Meet Goldie Locke.
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More corporate travelers are bringing along pets on business trips — are they being accommodated? The idea that more people are driving when it’s ...
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In small businesses, employees often need to wear multiple hats — should one of them be managing your travel program? Here’s a hard truth about ...
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A recent article in the New York Times suggested that travelers look for a drug store, an ATM, and a Wi-Fi hot spot ASAP upon arrival in a new city. ...
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Travel spend can easily get out of control, especially for growing businesses that don’t have concrete policies in place. In a recent post, we ...
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If your business needs help managing travel, you may want to enlist the help of a corporate travel agency. But how do you find the perfect one? In ...
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Many growing businesses outsource the management of their travel programs to agencies. Here’s why. The more your employees travel, the more ...
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To outsource or not to outsource? That is the question when it comes to managing your corporate travel program If you’ve traveled for business in the ...
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Many growing businesses stick with a “by the seat of your pants” corporate travel policy for far too long. While that may work for some, it can mean ...
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A new podcast from Lola.com dives deep into life on the road
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No-frills air travel is lowering the price of airfare — but at what cost? Lola.com explains everything you need to know about the rise of basic ...
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Brand loyalty influences so much of our day to day. From the coffee we drink to the computer we work on, loyalty runs deep. A new study from Lola.com ...
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Corporate travelers need more options for staying productive on the road. Are day-rate hotels the future? Most business travelers know a version of ...
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Business travel isn’t always fun. There’s delays, layovers, itemized receipts. Not to mention time away from home and family.
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How does Lola.com build the best corporate travel management software on the planet? It all starts with our stack. At Lola.com, our goal is to build ...
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Where you choose to work is not an accident, and a new study from Lola.com reveals how those preferences translate to corporate travel expectations. ...
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Airfare to Atlanta is sky high, but Lola.com has a few creative ways to get you there on the cheap Should you or shouldn’t you? The NFL's biggest day ...
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A new comprehensive study from Lola.com reveals how frequent business travelers feel about the good, the bad and the ugly of corporate travel Every ...
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Need a quick framework for creating (or improving) your company's corporate travel policy? Check out Lola.com's new cheatsheet Whether you’re a ...
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Booking rock-bottom prices for corporate travel (like Basic Economy flights or hotels far from the city) can seem like a smart way to keep costs low ...
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Our new eBook spells out the 10 simple steps for creating a corporate travel policy that actually works — for your company and your employees ...
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To celebrate the big Patriots win on Sunday, Lola.com is spreading some love by giving one lucky winner (and their guest!) the opportunity to get in ...
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At Lola.com, we take corporate travel policies seriously. How seriously? We’re devoting an entire week (ok, ok — an entire two weeks) to talking ...
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Business Travel is a massive industry. But just how big is it? The team at Lola.com wanted to find out - so we dug deep to find the largest and ...
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Closed terminals, delayed flights, snaking security lines — these things all contribute to anxiety. So what can you do to minimize the travails of ...
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Lola.com’s easy-to-use booking platform allowed Drift employees to complete bookings on their own with the company's travel guidelines built right ...
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Everybody in the travel business is giving you tips for travel in 2019, so let me put in my two cents, as they used to say when two cents had at ...
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Late in 2018, Lola.com announced an industry-shaking partnership with American Express Global Business Travel (GBT). The deal marries GBT's ...
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Haven't heard about Steamboat, yet? You soon will.
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It’s the end of the year. That used to mean something for business travelers anxious to preserve elite status on an airline. For many of us, it meant ...
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(Note: You can see Mike share these predictions on Cheddar TV by clicking here.) There is no denying that business life is changing. More people are ...
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The hotel per diem allowed by your company is based on cost, but what does that cost include? No-charge extras can make a big difference in comfort ...
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If you read our blog post last week, then you know that meal per diems can improve travel for you and your team. So now that you've decided a per ...
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Instituting a per diem allowance for meals when employees are traveling ensures your people won’t get short-changed and your travel budget won’t get ...
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I haven’t had a gun since 1968, when a Marine quartermaster in Vietnam (I was in the Navy, but on the ground) handed me an M14 rifle and snarled, ...
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A good travel policy is a good thing. But why not make yours great? Leaders shoot for the moon, right? And, frankly, your travel-weary employees ...
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How much is your organization spending on corporate travel? A lot, probably. For a typical company, travel is the single-highest controllable expense ...
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The best corporate travel policy for your organization will be unique to you because your company’s travel reality is different from other firms. ...
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A corporate travel policy is a tool designed to help both employees and company executives make effective decisions. It explains what you expect from ...
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Why have a travel policy if your team doesn’t follow the rules? Unfortunately, the problem with most travel policies is simple: they are too ...
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When you take the time to write up a business travel policy, it’s often hard to figure out what parameters to set around meal reimbursement. You want ...
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When your employees are booking a hotel for business travel, there’s a good chance they are looking up reviews on sites like TripAdvisor. But ...
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When you’re coming up with a business travel policy for your company, it’s hard to balance the needs of the business with the needs of your team. If ...
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Like so many other companies, you might still be using Excel to manage your team’s business travel expenses. While this is a good short term ...
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Photo credit: https://edubirdie.com/ If your company is like most, your travel process is probably disorganized and complicated. Fear not! There ...
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Running a travel program for your business can often feel like juggling. You have to balance your needs (like staying under budget and reporting ...
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If your employees are traveling for business, chances are they've experienced the stress and frustration that comes along with flight delays. ...
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You’ve taken the time to write up a travel policy, but your employees are not following it. We’ve put together some common mistakes companies make in ...
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“Wait… so what does an Executive Assistant actually do?” It’s a question I get asked. A lot. If you had asked me that exact question last year, I ...
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If you’re an Executive Assistant, then you know what it’s like to be planning, booking, and changing travel plans for your boss. Most EAs book ...
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Corporate travel policies are put into place to help guide employees with decisions when booking hotels and flights for business trips. These ...
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There comes a time when most growing businesses need to determine if they need a business travel policy, or if they should continue to let employees ...
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If your company doesn’t currently have a travel policy, then you know the pain of employee overspending, stressed out travelers, and wasted time ...
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Did you know that one of the highest, most controllable expenses for a company is business travel?
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We’ve all read the same article, or some version of it, over the years: “Tips and Tricks for Beating the Airlines at Their Own Game.” These tips are ...
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Have you ever stood in a long security line at the airport? It is less than thrilling. However, there is a faster (and better) way to travel and it ...
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If you’re in Operations then I’m sure you’ve already felt the pain of having to manage permissions on dozens of third party applications. When we ...
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My first job out of college was in sales for a significant Wall Street player. My first business trip was the inevitable – back to my alma mater to ...
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Winter travel can be unpredictable and unpleasant. For frequent business travelers, the winter is even more taxing with flight delays, cancellations, ...
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A traditional corporate travel policy is many things, but traveler friendly is not one of them. More and more companies are learning that in order to ...
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We are set to conclude another banner year for applied machine learning and artificial intelligence, in what has now proven to be a long, successive ...
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Launching today, Lola is a tool that makes every facet of business travel easier, with a model and services no one in the travel industry has offered ...
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A year ago when we launched Lola, we wanted to learn about the possibilities and the practicality of real human and AI driven service in travel. ...
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I am pleased to share that GV and Tenaya Ventures have added an additional $5M each to our Series B financing. This brings our Series B round to a ...
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I’m excited to share that we’ve secured $15M in Series B funding led by Charles River Ventures (CRV) along with additional investments from our ...
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We just finished a banner year for practical machine learning and artificial intelligence. And as we start a new calendar, it seems an opportune time ...
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The world is hurtling toward a dramatic change, and I’m not so sure it is ready for it. Let me elaborate:
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We’re creating a better way for people to find and book the right hotel, flight and other travel. I’ve long admired the Room 77 team for their ...
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Machine learning has become one of the hottest buzzwords in business. You see it everywhere, everyone wants it, everyone is talking about it, and ...
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In a nutshell, the human brain is little more than a collection of billions and billions of tiny neurons, connected by synapses, that collectively ...
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It is easy to confuse common terminology in the fast-moving world of machine learning. For example, the term NLU is often believed to be ...
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