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Consolidation continues in the business travel market. Sodexo is to integrate the solutions developed by two business travel specialists: iAlbatros and Xpenditure. The former, which specialises in hotel reservation technologies, recently distinguished itself by developing a new reservation tool for Havas Voyages last year. The latter has...

How would you sum up Travel Planet in a few figures? Tristan Dessain-Gelinet - Travel Planet achieved a turnover of €70 million in 2016. On the basis of contracts already signed, we are expecting 120 to 130 million this year. The rate of online transactions, which is what sets us apart, reached 83% for all customers and...

How did the Havas Voyages Connect project come about? Michel Dinh - This new solution is the result of all the thought we put into business travel, which is the core business of Havas Voyages. 60% of our business is generated by business travel, mainly for VSEs and SMEs. The...

The business travel market was getting impatient. American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) is beginning to provide some tangible answers. Since the creation of the joint venture with the Certares group and the Qatar Investment Authority in 2014, the business travel agency has been moving forward in disguise, and according to some, has been slow to make use of this new financial windfall,...

The travel-existential question: should we take a rather directive approach to business travel or, on the contrary, opt for a more permissive 'open booking' approach, letting travellers wander among all the offers on the market? SBT publishers - the famous self-booking tools that have been developed in large companies to...

Stéphane Donders was appointed head of Traveldoo in January. At the Business Travel Show, held in London on 24 and 25 February, this former KDS and Meilleuregestion employee takes stock of his objectives at the helm of the technology-based business travel specialist. International expansion, relations with Egencia,...