Hotels Entice Remote Workers With Pay-By-The-Hour Room Options
Photo Credit: ByHours lets hotels offer room reservations by the hour. Unsplash / Justin Docanto
Skift Take
It's a clever way to address that demand for more flexibility, and drive more revenue to hotels, but with recovery on the way it's unclear how long the "microstay" trend will last.
Travel technology company Sabre is taking flexible bookings to a new level following a content tie-up with a reservation platform called ByHours.
After teasing a new “microstay” hotel booking concept to Skift in March, Sabre said "hundreds of thousands of travel agents" that use its global distribution system can book rooms by the hour, and not just night, for their corporate customers.
“We do have a hospitality microstay, short-stay capability that’s going to be introduced to the market shortly through travel agencies, to allow us to test the proof of concept for that,” Wade Jones, executive vice president and chief
