{"id":327162,"date":"2026-05-01T02:43:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=327162"},"modified":"2026-05-01T02:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:13:35","slug":"uber-to-introduce-hotel-booking-feature-and-room-service-options-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/uber-to-introduce-hotel-booking-feature-and-room-service-options-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber to introduce hotel booking feature and \u2018room service\u2019 options &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Uber announced on Wednesday that U.S. and global customers will soon give you the option to book hotels and vacation rentals on its app and even order room service to their hotel rooms, because it seeks to transition to an end-to-end travel platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUber is becoming an app for all the things, Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber\u2019s CEO, said during a <a 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src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get every day National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get every day Canada news delivered to your inbox so you will never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Greater than 700,000 hotels and Vrbo properties will probably be bookable on the app later this yr through a partnership with Expedia, the corporate said.<\/p>\n<p>Uber rides will probably be integrated directly into the Expedia app starting in June, while Expedia\u2019s hotel inventory will probably be consolidated into the Uber app.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTravel should feel effortless,\u201d Expedia Group CEO Ariane Gorin said within the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Other accommodation and travel booking sites like Airbnb and Booking.com even have their very own apps.<\/p>\n<p>Other ride-sharing apps, like Lyft, which supply standard ride options, luxury vehicles, and services equivalent to bike and scooter rentals, in addition to assisted rides, don&#8217;t currently offer hotel booking services, like Uber plans to.<\/p>\n<p>Uber can be introducing Travel Mode inside the Uber and Uber Eats apps, which can suggest popular tourist destinations, enable OpenTable reservations and introduce Uber\u2019s version of \u201croom service\u201d where users can order items to be delivered on to their hotel room door.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Trending<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The rollout will even include a spate of updates for Uber One customers, including the flexibility to request items from any store \u2014 even those not listed on the app \u2014 and the choice to book Uber Black or Uber Black SUV, with the driving force arriving with a drink or snack in hand.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The move is aimed toward boosting Uber One memberships, the app\u2019s subscription service, which costs US$9.99 a month, by offering a spread of discounts and credit rewards for patrons who join and book their travel through the app.<\/p>\n<p>At the tip of 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uber.com\/global\/te\/careers\/list\/157153\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber said<\/a> it had 46 million Uber One members, up 55 percent from the yr prior, and that Uber One had turn into integral to customer retention.<\/p>\n<p>The app\u2019s latest offerings will offer 10 percent back in Uber credits and 20 percent off hotel bookings.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows a series of restructuring efforts and latest business partnerships aimed toward expanding the app\u2019s functionality.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this yr, Uber introduced a robotaxi and added an in-app parking reservation option. It also announced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uber.com\/us\/en\/elevate\/vision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber Air<\/a> as a part of its aerial ridesharing service, which can allow users to book flights.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&#038;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber announced on Wednesday that U.S. and global customers will soon give you the option to book hotels and vacation rentals on its app and even order room service to their hotel rooms, because it seeks to transition to an end-to-end travel platform. \u201cUber is becoming an app for all the things, Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20691],"tags":[11830,1610,3305,10602,1903,13600,1074,4055,8317],"class_list":["post-327162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-booking","tag-feature","tag-hotel","tag-introduce","tag-national","tag-options","tag-room","tag-service","tag-uber"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327165,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327162\/revisions\/327165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}