You're booking a client meeting in Frankfurt next month. You open the corporate travel portal, watch it load three different scripts, click through a "preferred property" that costs €40 more than what you remember seeing on Google, and then spend ten minutes hunting for a folio receipt that breaks out the room rate from the city tax. Somewhere in there, you're also supposed to be tracking the carbon footprint for your company's Scope 3 disclosure. Most travel platforms treat business trips like leisure trips with a worse interface — they bury the price, hide the receipts, and pretend sustainability is a checkbox.
IMPT was built to skip that. No account required to search, no popup asking if you want to "unlock member pricing," and every number you need for expense reports or carbon reporting is visible before you book.
What you actually see when you search IMPT
One search bar. Type in the city, dates, and traveler count. The results page shows, for each hotel:
- The total price — taxes and fees folded in, not revealed at checkout step 4.
- The carbon footprint estimate for your stay, with an optional offset cost broken out separately so finance can categorize it.
- IMPT token cashback earned on the booking — useful if you travel weekly and want the rewards going to you instead of into a corporate program you'll never redeem.
- A downloadable receipt post-booking that itemizes room, tax, and offset contribution. Auditable. Boring. Exactly what your accounts team wants.
No upsell carousel. No "12 people are looking at this hotel right now." Just the information.
The honest comparison
Where IMPT wins for business travel
- Price. Direct-to-hotel inventory typically runs 5–15% below corporate-negotiated rates, because those "negotiated" rates are based on rack pricing the hotel rarely charges anyone.
- Carbon records. If your company reports Scope 3 emissions, IMPT gives you a per-stay record with offset documentation. Booking.com and Expedia mostly show a green leaf icon.
- Rewards that don't expire in a corporate silo. Token cashback goes to you personally, redeemable across stays.
Where IMPT doesn't win (yet)
- Loyalty status matching. If you're Marriott Titanium and you need lounge access, book direct. IMPT won't credit your stay toward hotel-chain status.
- Centralized corporate billing portals. If your company uses a TMC like Concur or Egencia with mandatory routing, IMPT works as a parallel option, not a replacement. We have a how-it-works page explaining the billing setup.
For a head-to-head on either major OTA, see IMPT vs Booking.com or IMPT vs Expedia.
Try it on a specific destination
Let's say you have a two-night trip to Frankfurt, Tuesday to Thursday, for a quarterly review. You head to IMPT, enter "Frankfurt," select the dates, and hit search.
You'll see a list sorted by relevance — a four-star near Messe Frankfurt at €189/night total, a Hauptbahnhof-area hotel at €142/night, a sustainable-certified property near the financial district at €176/night. Each row shows the price as you'd actually pay it, the estimated carbon footprint (roughly 24 kg CO₂ for a two-night stay at a mid-tier European hotel), and a token cashback figure of around 1.5–2% of the booking.
You click the property you want. You pay with card or crypto. You get an email with the booking confirmation and a separate document for your expense submission. Total elapsed time: under three minutes. No support ticket required to find your receipt three weeks later.
If this is your first time, the first-time booking walkthrough covers the small differences in checkout.
Book your next business trip
If your next trip is already on the calendar, run the search now and compare it against whatever your corporate tool quoted you. If IMPT is cheaper — and for most direct hotel bookings, it will be — you'll have your answer in 30 seconds.