We have come full circle: no less than five years after announcing theacquisition of KDS, American Express GBT can pride itself on becoming " the only TMC to offer a proprietary mobile solution that brings together all [the] functionalities in a single application "as announced on 16 November. This means not only booking and managing business trips - and providing support in the event of unforeseen circumstances - but also managing expense claims. The business travel agency has therefore just integrated the Neo its application Amex GBT Mobile.
In practical terms, business travellers can now enter and declare their expenses from their smartphone while on the move. All they have to do is take a photo of their receipt: optical character recognition (OCR) does the rest, extracts the required data, and the expense can be automatically linked to the current trip. Invoices received by email in PDF format can also be processed.
" Our aim is to create solutions that help our customers travel more efficiently while reducing constraints wherever possible. "Raksa Ouk, Vice-President of Digital Strategy at American Express GBT. She continues: " This means giving them the power to manage every stage of a business trip from the tool they use most on the road - their mobile phone. To do this, we've combined real-time booking and travel assistance functions within the Amex GBT mobile application, while adding the convenience and speed of the Neo ".
Green Compass, a new green card issued by Amex GBTAlongside the integration of Neo into Amex GBT Mobile, TMC has scored a new trump card in the battle against global warming. American Express GBT announced on Wednesday the launch of a new service called Green Compass. The aim is to "urge companies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions from business travel while making travel possible". To achieve this, Green Compass will rely on a dashboard aimed at giving travel managers better visibility of the emissions linked to business travel, and then identifying the best actions to take. Examples cited by American Express GBT include choosing sustainable hotels, using low-emission aircraft, or replacing air travel with rail travel. " The world needs to travel and trade again, and we want to help companies do this in the most responsible and environmentally-friendly way possible, explains Julie Avenel, Vice President of GBT Global Business Consulting, the consulting arm of GBT. Green Compass provides travel managers and sustainable development stakeholders with the data and expertise they need to support the decarbonisation of their business by visualising the measures they can take to reduce their carbon emissions while continuing to travel. Most products that mention CO2 only indicate the emissions produced by travel. Green Compass, on the other hand, enables companies to set targets, monitor their progress and take appropriate action. ". |
