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The BCD Group’s event agency has just published its annual trend report. The report draws on the analyses of its regional executives and third-party studies. According to the Events Industry Council and Oxford Economics, business events have thus generated $1,300 billion in direct spending by 2025 and supported 24.2 million…

As proof of its expansion among European companies: Navan chose Paris to host its second major event Navigate, following a first edition in New York last May. This is an opportunity for its top executives, led by co-founders Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig, to showcase its technological solutions to…

And what if virtual reality didn’t replace the physical presence, quite the opposite? In his latest analysis, Navan points to a «striking paradox»: «While remote work and AI were originally intended to replace in-person meetings (…) the companies that develop AI are now the ones that travel the most for business purposes.» Figures at…

One year later, what is your assessment of Marietton’s acquisition? Has your vision of this merger remained the same or has it evolved? Maxime Pialat - I am very satisfied. Supertripper follows the same trajectory; Marietton trusts us and lets us operate our strategy at 100 %%, and they support us on various topics…

FCM Travel announced on October 7 the launch of FCM Proactive Analytics. The tool does not require any connection, query, or manual extraction. It actually transmits its analyses by email to clients as well as to their FCM Account Managers, on a weekly, monthly, or quarterly basis. The goal is to spot small discrepancies before they become…

What is your new role as Head of Travel, Advisory and Community? Sandra Lévy - I spent nearly 18 years in purchasing at METRO, including 8 years in indirect purchasing, where as indirect purchasing manager over the last 3 years I was able to manage purchasing departments covering the entire…

Supertripper, a business travel agency and subsidiary of the Marietton Développement Group, is now connecting its platform directly to the Trenitalia France booking system. The Frecciarossa high-speed trains linking Paris to Lyon, Marseille and Milan now appear in search results, with fares identical to those displayed by the Italian carrier, without...

Marriott is strengthening its distribution to business travellers through a direct connection with the corporate booking platform Spotnana. This «Travel-as-a-Service» cloud infrastructure provider now benefits from integration with Marriott's central reservation system. This allows its users – travel agencies as well as business travellers with access to...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Combien de fois avez-vous changé d'agence de voyages d'affaires en espérant que cette fois, tout serait réglé ? La démonstration se passe bien, les conseillers sont avenants, et six mois plus tard il manque encore quelque chose. L'outil que les voyageurs boudent. Ou le support qui met deux jours à répondre à un…

Navan has published its 2026 Business Travel Barometer, based on its own booking data. In France, rail accounts for 85.6 % of domestic business journeys. This figure places the country fifth in Europe, behind Belgium (99.8 %), the Netherlands (99.6 %), Switzerland (97.8 %) and the United Kingdom (91.1 %),…

FCM Travel announced on August 4th a conversational booking feature integrated into FCM Booking, its proprietary platform. The traveller describes their request in natural language and receives proposals from Sam, FCM's artificial intelligence layer, built from their profile, travel history and policy...

As agreements aiming to build bridges between the business travel ecosystem and AI agents multiply, via the MCP protocol, BCD Travel is opting for a strategy of investment and partnership. The TMC had already joined forces with SkyLink to recruit an AI-based travel assistant, and with Oversee to automate…

The MCP (Model Context Protocol) is gradually becoming the gateway between business travel tools and AI assistants. Perk achieved this milestone in mid-July for its travel & expense and MICE modules, following CDS

One in two business travellers who applied for a visa in the past year reported encountering a difficulty: being refused within the timeframe, incurring extra costs to expedite their application, or being reimbursed by their company. This is according to a survey commissioned by Perk of 8,000

"Travel is a very seasonal activity, but the divergence between business and leisure observed in the first half of this year was more pronounced than in the past." This observation comes from Aurélien Nolf, Chief Financial Officer at Navan. It is part of the publication of the Navan Business Travel Benchmark (BTB),…

MCP, for "Model Context Protocol": here is the new acronym that business travel players are going to have to familiarise themselves with. This type of connector, based on an open protocol, now acts as a bridge between business tools and the "wonderful world" of agentic AI. And now it's Perk's turn to enter...

Navan is advancing its position in the hotel sector. Last March, the TMC unveiled a new infrastructure for its hotel catalogue. The objective: to bring more clarity and choice for business travellers. Today, the travel agency is taking a new step by joining forces with a major player in the market. Navan is set to become the...

At the halfway point of the 2026 financial year, with the summer holidays fast approaching, the ranking of the main business destinations is becoming clearer. Navan has just released its league table for France and on an international scale, based on bookings made between January 2025 and April 2026. For 2025, the national podium was made up of Paris,...

Booking travel through natural language conversation, detecting reservations that are off policy or anomalous transactions: the new suite of AI-driven tools presented by Navan gives substance to the desires of the TMC, which recently entered the Nasdaq. Namely, to build "the business travel infrastructure..."

Amex GBT's journey is increasingly resembling a strange game of Monopoly. After making headlines in business travel with its various actions – notably CWT – and their potential impact on maintaining competition, the TMC is moving to the other side of the transaction. This time, it's to...