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American Express GBT is to overhaul the tools it uses to calculate carbon emissions for its customers. The business travel agency will now be adopting the technology developed by CHOOOSE. This will be integrated into the Neo booking tool. The aim is to gain greater precision and legitimacy, so as to have a greater influence on the choices made by business travellers and the...

The "Wellbeing Dashboard" developed by Egencia has been available since December 7th, for all Egencia and American Express GBT clients. It joins and completes the suite of tools linked to sustainable development offered by both Egencia Consulting and American Express Global Business Consulting. And we have to say...

Just over a year after the announcement of its takeover by American Express GBT in spring 2021, the integration of Egencia has resulted in new developments for the TMC's 9,000 or so customers. They will now have access to the Meetings & Events (M&E) and Global Business Consulting (GBC) services, as announced on Tuesday by Egencia....

Not surprisingly, the health crisis is accelerating the trend towards consolidation in the business travel sector. It was still necessary to identify the players involved. Unsurprisingly, American Express GBT is once again at the helm of these major manoeuvres: the TMC had already distinguished itself three years earlier by...

Normally, it would be logical to ask you whether your governance is a continuation of that of Rob Greyber. We can imagine that your presidency will necessarily be unprecedented, given the current context... Ariane Gorin - Right now, all our energy is focused on helping our corporate customers deal with the crisis and prepare for the future. In this...

The launch of the "Workspace CO2 Emissions" was made official by Egencia on 9 December. The aim is to support companies on their journey towards sustainable business travel. This new tool takes the form of a dashboard calculating the emissions generated by air travel and hotels for each trip. Rail travel will be accounted for at the beginning of the year.

Egencia took advantage of the Business Travel Show, held in London on 20 and 21 February, to unveil some of its new features. Among them, the "Egencia Hotel Conversations" tool is designed to facilitate direct dialogue between business travellers and their establishments. The managers of the business travel agency are quick to point out that this is "the first time that Egencia has...

Satisfaction scores, rates, business services and facilities, customer service and the traveller experience: these are the criteria used by Egencia to compile a global Top 100 list of the best business hotels. Of course, the Egencia Awards, unveiled on 15 January, cannot claim to be objective or, of course, exhaustive. By focusing on the establishments and...

The Top 20 business destinations visited by business travellers in 2018 has just been published by Egencia. Paris features prominently in the list, ranking third worldwide. According to the figures released by the business travel agency, Paris saw air bookings take off from January to May 2018 (+30%),...

Reporting can be indigestible, and too much information can kill information: faced with a myriad of data, many Travel Managers are therefore looking for tools that will enable them to channel and exploit this profusion of data, to steer travel policy with an enlightened eye. This is the logic behind the launch of Egencia Analytics...

Is optimising business travel expenditure the preserve of the big Cac 40 groups? Egencia is determined to prove otherwise. The business travel agency has published a study focusing on small and medium-sized companies. Unsurprisingly, saving money is the number 1 priority for SMEs. According to Egencia, 85% of SMEs...

A few days after the GDS tax came into force within the Air France KLM group on 1 April, Expedia has reacted. On Wednesday, the travel giant announced that it had reached an agreement with the Air France KLM group. This agreement, which also benefits Egencia customers, means that they will not be impacted by this new GDS surcharge:...

One week follows another in business travel news: from surveys to infographics, market players compete to provide data on the current state of bleisure. The latest publication on the subject is by Egencia, and has the advantage of being based on a vast international sample. The study - soberly entitled "Egencia Bleisure Trends"...

Autonomy and flexibility: Egencia is launching a new feature to address these two crucial issues for business travellers. The business travel agency now offers all its customers the option of making their own changes to their flights after booking. Business travellers now have instant access to fare changes and any penalties that may apply....

The new global Egencia Advantage programme was announced on 16 November by the business travel agency. The company has entered into partnerships with a number of business travel industry players, with the aim of improving the day-to-day lives of business travellers. In particular, Egencia has turned to LoundgeBuddy, the airport lounge information aggregator. The Egencia Advantage programme will...

Egencia's employees in Marseille moved into their new offices at the end of August. The house-warming ceremony to mark the move to the Euroméditerranée district was held on October 17 in the presence of business partners and local officials. The new environment for the Egencia teams, with its...

How did you choose your business travel agency? Juliet Thanwerdas - We needed to centralise bookings and monitor travel expenses. The criteria focused on the agency's leadership and its openness to BlablaCar's start-up culture. This choice was made before I arrived, but I've already got to grips with the tool...

Is it too late to make good resolutions? Not according to Egencia and Sabre. The two business travel players have published a new white paper. Entitled "2017 The Year of the Business Traveller: Four Keys to Supporting Employees on the Move", the document aims to give companies the recipe for success in...

"Expense Product Suite" is the name of the new offering unveiled by Egencia at the end of February. The business travel agency took advantage of the Business Travel Show in London to present these new tools to business travel professionals, designed to improve the management of expense reports....

Christophe Peymirat, Senior Vice President Europe and Middle East, Egencia What is the trend in the business travel market? Christophe Peymirat: In 2015, the market held up well until the events of November, after which business travellers restricted their trips for about a month. In 2016, there was no...