Published on : Saturday, December 1, 2018
Bob Diener was at the forefront of this shift and one of the earliest internet entrepreneurs, founding the company that eventually became Hotels.com in 1990, years before internet technology was common.
His latest venture, getaroom.com, is a hotel-booking site for consumers, but soon thereafter pivoted into a business-to-business provider of hotels affiliates, including online travel agencies, metasearch sites, airlines, destination sites, and membership clubs. According to Diener, they are planing to do more than $1 billion in gross sales by the end of 2018.