User:Hotelsbyday/sandbox

HotelsByDay is a mobile travel app that allows users to book an ‘Intra-Day Stay’ at hotels in the U.S. An intra-day Stay is a Hotel stay with the same day check-in & check-out. It is most often offered as a Morning, Midday, or Afternoon Stay. Launched at February 2015, HotelsByDay has booked hundreds of rooms in more than 12 cities. With just two months launched, HotelsByDay was featured in more than 40 media sources and is currently expanding to offer day stays in more than 20 cities. HotelsByDay is also gearing towards international expansion.

History

HotelsByDay was founded in February 2015 by the entrepreneurs Yannis Moati, Nathan Stevenson and Brian Dass. The company’s founders all came from a travel or technological background. Since the service was first launched in February 2015, HotelsByDay is still the only mobile app that offers instant booking for day stays in hotels. HotelsByDay raised angel funding and is headquartered in New York City.

Moati, the company’s CEO has imported the intra-day trend from Europe and has 15 years of experience as a tour operator. Stevenson, the company's COO, has founded a pioneering music rights investment firm and has 15 years of experience in quantitative trading strategies. Dass, the company’s CTO, founded and sold two web-based hotel technology firms and held general manager positions in NYC based hotels.

Description

HotelsByDay is a free mobile app available for Apple and Android which offers instant booking for half day stays at hotels. Also found on the webpage www.hotelsbyday.com The service benefits both the traveler, which is charged only for half the nightly rate of the hotel room, and the hotel, which utilizes its unsold rooms during the day. HotelsByDay was reviewed by Forbes calling the service “a win-win for guests, who get bargain-priced rooms, and hotels, who make revenue from rooms that would otherwise sit empty”. Due to the nature of the hospitality industry, innovation is vital to increase revenue as the supply of rooms is limited.