U.K. rail booking platform Train Hugger has partnered with Spotnana and Trainline to launch a corporate booking tool for U.K. businesses, the companies announced.
Train Hugger launched in 2021 with a focus on sustainability, pledging to plant a new tree in the U.K. with every rail booking via a partnership with the Royal Forestry Society. It claims already to have planted 250,000 trees since its launch. The platform now has adopted a white-labeled version of Spotnana’s rail shopping experience and admin console and connected Spotnana’s APIs to its in-house system, which makes Train Hugger “able to provide travelers with a best-in-class booking experience that includes comprehensive self-service capabilities,” Spotnana VP of content and operations Bill Brindle said in a blog post.
Servicing capabilities via Spotnana include seat selection, purchasing ancillaries, changes and cancellations, applying loyalty programs and rail cards and access to split-ticket pricing, in which individual legs of a trip are booked separately when it results in a lower price. Spotnana last week announced an integration with Trainline Partner Solutions’ API to add its rail content to its platform.
Train Hugger said it expects bookings to fund one million new trees in the U.K. next year.
