Getaroom.com

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Getaroom.com

Getaroom.com is a Dallas, Texas-based online hotel reservation site ^[2] that allows customers to view sales and promotional rates ^[3] on hotel rooms, read hotel reviews and view photos for over 100,000 hotel properties.

History

Getaroom.com was founded in 2009 by travel industry executives Robert B. Diener ^[4] and David Litman. In 1991 Diener and Litman founded the Hotel Reservations Network, now known as Hotels.com. ^[5] Litman served as CEO and Diener as president until the end of 2003.

Diener is a travel industry source for many news outlets, ^[6] including The Wall Street Journal, ^[1] USA Today ^[8] and The New York Times. Both Diener and Litman attended Cornell University Law School and are regular lecturers at the Cornell Law School and Cornell Entrepreneurship program.

Technology

Getaroom's technology is currently used to provide end-to-end hotel booking solutions, including outsourcing services for call center, ^[10] processing and customer service.

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Citation Linkreuters.com"Getaroom.com Co-Founder Bob Diener Receives Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the University of Florida"

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