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Booking low-cost flights or hotels online: these two issues for business travellers and their TMCs have underpinned the advent of virtual cards in the world of payments, alongside stored-value cards. While the virtual card has made significant inroads since the middle of the last decade, its use among business travellers is...

Why did your group recently change its name to S4BT? Ziad Minkara - The name CDS Groupe, with its long history and strong positioning in the hotel sector, was already well known in France. But the strategy we set ourselves for 2020, before Covid, is Europe-wide....

"Business travel is the mirror of the current economic climate and of business confidence," says Christophe Roth, Associate Director - BU Expertises Conseil, EPSA Group. According to the 15th edition of his barometer, unveiled in partnership with the IFTM trade show, the sector is not doing all that badly in an environment that is...

Modified on 5 September at 11am The Accor group is unifying its range of subscriptions around a new global platform called ALL Accor+. Bringing together all the formulas, particularly those linked to the Asian and South American markets, this overhaul is based on four new options aimed at frequent travellers, particularly business travellers. Key subscribers for these cards, which offer discounts...

The parent company of Hcorpo, one of the key players in corporate hotel distribution, Gekko Group has just signed a partnership agreement with SAP Concur to strengthen the hotel offering of its Concur Travel platform. Under development since 2023, the new version of SAP Concur's business travel reservation solution is based on a user experience that is...

Moderate growth in hotel rates next year: these are the forecasts for the major business destinations from American Express GBT, as part of its Hotel Monitor 2026 study. A crystal ball based on tangible elements, starting with TMC's own data, in particular its hotel reservation platform,...

Develop the business clientele. At a recent event celebrating the 35th anniversary of B&B Hotels, Céline Vercollier, the group's new managing director, made no secret of her ambition: "We're going to strengthen our sales team to attract group and corporate customers", she explained. While this strategy of...

Minor Hotels, which has a strong presence in Asia as well as in Europe since its acquisition of NH Hotels, is strengthening its sales strategy aimed at its B2B clientele. The Thai group is launching a new distribution platform designed for travel agencies, tour operators, event organisers, companies and other professionals in the sector. Called Minor PRO, the new platform...

Two major players in the travel management sector have just strengthened their ties and integrated their technologies. Amadeus and BCD Travel announced a new partnership in mid-May. Under the terms of this agreement, the business travel agency will be able to provide Cytric via Microsoft Teams, thus moving into Easy mode. In practical terms, this means that business travellers can manage their journeys...

Simplifying the organisation of events, rationalising expenditure: optimising MICE is a priority for companies. And, as a result, for their suppliers who are working hard to meet their expectations. With this in mind, AirPlus and Kactus have recently announced a partnership to integrate AirPlus payment solutions into the Kactus event booking platform...

The main news for Hcorpo in 2024 was the announcement of your partnership with TotalEnergies to add a hotel component to their Mobility Corporate payment card. What are the advantages of this partnership for users of the card? Salomé Mogier - TotalEnergies chose us after an invitation to tender, and their...

Corporate hotel reservation specialist CDS Groupe is continuing to expand its presence in Europe. In 2023, the group had already acquired Corporate Rates Club, a hotel reservation platform renowned in Germany, particularly among SMEs, and a competitor of HRS in this market. This was in addition to the acquisition of the travel business...

TotalEnergies' Mobility Business offer has been extended to include the hotel sector, with the integration of Hcorpo's solutions. The Mobility Corporate Card, launched in 2021 to extend the range of possibilities offered by its Fleet Fuel Card, already enabled employees to pay for all their business travel expenses, without any advance payments or receipts.

Put on the back burner during the covid, business travel has returned to near pre-pandemic levels. This means that business travel makes real economic sense for companies, as the latest American Express study shows. Arnaud Bernet - Business travel has long been regarded as a cost centre. Through this study...

The pandemic demonstrated the vitality of SMEs and SMIs, who were the first to return to business travel when the first restrictions were lifted. It's a trend that has continued unabated ever since, and one that is of the utmost interest to the leaders in the hotel industry, who were previously more inclined to pamper large multinationals than to attract this...

Since the pandemic, the Accor group's Northern Europe division has made a habit of bringing together its key account clients at the Masters of Travel event. This was a way of taking the pulse of developments in the still faltering business travel sector, with participants from a wide range of sectors, including Germany, the UK, Sweden and Poland....

"To be the best rather than the biggest". For Stephan Baars, head of BCD Travel, American Express GBT's takeover of CWT - Europe's No. 1 and No. 3 business travel agencies respectively, with BCD sandwiched between the two - is not a cause for concern: "They were already No. 1, so there's no need to...

Organising an entire business trip, booking a train, a car or a hotel: all this is now possible via the SNCF Connect website or app. While the site already invited travellers to hire a car by linking up with Avis-Budget, accommodation has now been added to the booking process...

"A return to a certain normality after years of post-Covid recovery": the 2024 edition of the American Express GBT Business Travel Barometer translates into figures what most players in business tourism have been able to feel: an upward trend in travel volumes in 2023. However, after a...

Paris and London in the lead: the traditional powerhouses of the European hotel industry have regained their full appeal to travellers, whether they are tourists passing through or business travellers on the move. In these two cities, as in many others across France and Europe, the combination of these two customer groups is driving up the...