Hotel group trades traditional hotel shuttle for Uber

Scarlett Hotel Group started an Uber program for guests first in Omaha, then in Sarasota in late summer 2018.

  • By Business Observer Staff
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Courtesy. The Hampton Inn & Suites at Sarasota Airport now provides Uber rides for guests from the airport.
Courtesy. The Hampton Inn & Suites at Sarasota Airport now provides Uber rides for guests from the airport.
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Soon after Scarlett Hotel Group acquired a property in downtown Omaha, Neb., the group’s partners went there for a visit.

Zio Pekovic, principal and co-founder of Scarlett, with offices in Chicago and Nashville, tells Coffee Talk the group arrived at the airport and asked for the hotel shuttle to pick them up. “We ended up waiting about 40 minutes in pretty frigid temperatures,” he says.

 

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