Engine

Engine (formerly Hotel Engine) offers a free-to-use platform with more than 750,000 listed properties (September 2024) available worldwide for business travel solutions. Platform features include: a dashboard to manage business bookings; centralized lodging management with features such as department caps and maximum nightly rates; its direct billing program that provides folios and a monthly reconciled invoice; “Bleisure” travel for members, where a business trip extends into a personal vacation; and group bookings for healthcare staff and company events. In December 2022, Engine launched Flex Coverage, which allowed reservations to be canceled up until noon on the day of check-in without penalties and premature departures during the reservation period with compensation received for unused nights. In October 2022, Engine announced that the UK and Ireland would be its first international markets, and that it would be active in two European cities by January 2023.

Engine takes a commission for each booking and offers hotel partners free access to its SPARC platform, which provides business intelligence insights.

Key customers and partnerships

As of September 2024, more than 40,000 businesses had used Engine, with prominent customers such as Comcast, AstroTurf, NBCUniversal, Pepsi, NBC Universal, and Wework.

Engine has partnered with more than 2,700 brands including Hilton, Graduate Hotels, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, and Choice Hotels.