Groople and Group Travel

Groople caters to small business that travel in groups, say to conferences or business meetings. Not to be outdone, Orbitz launched a competing service called Group Travel Planet. It’s not clear on either site what discounts they’re offering, but they must be offering a discount and keeping a cut. While a promising idea, I’d still compare directly with regular discounters. USAToday reports that group travel is growing, but still nascent.

(Note the stupidity of Groople’s website code will tell anyone that isn’t using Windows Internet Explorer that they need to turn on cookies. No you don’t — just click through to the homepage on the warning page.