Split decision: New app aims to ease group travel planning, payments

Group travel headaches prompted the creation of Takeoff, designed to ease itinerary planning and payment. Up next? Finding a big enough market to thrive.


  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 10:00 a.m. March 10, 2022
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Mark Wemple. Chase Harris, a former real estate agent, co-created Takeoff, a new app designed to simplify group travel experiences.
Mark Wemple. Chase Harris, a former real estate agent, co-created Takeoff, a new app designed to simplify group travel experiences.
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As pandemic restrictions have lifted, travel, accordingly, has experienced a resurgence. Case in point: Revenue from hotel stays in Tampa and Hillsborough County topped $758 million last year, shattering a record set in 2019 by $50 million.

Groups are also traveling again, and as anyone who’s taken part in a destination wedding, bachelor/bachelorette party or other trip involving people outside their immediate family, splitting costs can get complicated.

 

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