It's a nifty idea, and one more spas should adopt: Most spas force a client to commit to a service when booking--days, sometimes weeks ahead of time--bad luck if, say, she wrenches her back the day before a facial.
While Open Placement also ostensibly focused on care coordination (discharge planning), their service was much more like an online traveling booking service, but involving secondary care facilities, and geared to the needs of hospital discharge coordinators.
But by the end of June, only 1, 200 appointments had been made through the e-booking service.
"Tax reductions and refunds are very important mechanisms for start-ups, " said Sylviane Kamga of I-DISPO, an online-booking service.
The first is by selling seats on their own Web sites and together on Sabre's Travelocity, American Airlines' booking service.
It has already sired some successes such as CruiseWise, an online cruise-booking service, that have gone on to raise capital from other sources.
The service is currently booking same day rooms with 300 hotels in 18 cities, but looks to expand to ten additional cities in the coming months.
The same fare, however, is now available through Cathay's own online booking service, though for some reason, only if the passenger stays three nights, instead of just two.
Last year Boyd bought Agoda, a Thai online booking service that he plans to use to expand into Asia (except for China and India, where he faces entrenched competitors).
Nigel Pocklington of Hotels.com, an online booking service, says demand for London rooms during the games is weaker than anticipated and prices have fallen by 25% in the past four weeks alone.
Last week, The Next Web reported that the company acquired the taxi-fetching app maker TXXI in an effort to roll out a TomTom cab-booking service, and today the site reports that the theory is now confirmed.
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Adam Twidell, the founder of PrivateFly, an online booking service that has done for the private jet industry what Expedia and Priceline did for commercial flights, has seen a yearly threefold growth since he launched his company in 2007.
Capitalizing on its customer base of 60, 000 doctors, electronic health record provider Practice Fusion launched a free booking and review service for physicians and their patients.
Expedia, the largest US online travel service provider in terms of booking volumes, recently announced a new agreement with eLong Inc. to further expand the global hotel booking options for users.
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Reservation-taking full-service restaurants have increasingly adopted online booking options over the past few years.
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They determined that any service, whether it's booking a trip or sending a package, shares 85 common characteristics, including availability, price, reservation style and the ability to change or cancel a deal.
"So far, so good", said one official at the state-run China International Travel Service in Beijing, when asked about booking cancellations because of the crash.
Tour operators can use the service to integrate giving portals into their online booking systems or offer charity gift cards to travelers.
I've always found I can get better rates booking my own travel, and the concierge service never got me into any choice restaurants on my target list.
Fast-growing appointment booking site ZocDoc does not disclose the number of doctors who use its service, but it is believed to be less than 30, 000.
KLM's service is available only to travelers with confirmed reservations who are willing to connect their social profiles to their booking.
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