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Just over a year after your appointment as head of Navan France, how would you sum up the year? Olivier Nairey - This year has gone very well. We had a fairly comprehensive roadmap. Navan has always been a big machine when it comes to acquiring new customers. This is an area in which we...

Like other business travel agencies in recent years, Reed & Mackay is extending its sphere of activity to include meetings and corporate events. Or rather, it is extending this service to the French market, having built up solid expertise internationally. TMC can claim to have managed over 4,700 projects in...

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...

Launch of a new corporate programme 10 September sees the launch of our new offer for companies of all sizes. The programme is harmonised across all routes in our new extended network. Depending on annual expenditure, companies can benefit from exclusive advantages such as negotiated fares, individual management and...

The business travel sector is undergoing radical change, driven by the emergence of innovative technologies that are profoundly changing the way companies manage their business travel. Among these innovations, NDC, or New Distribution Capability, stands out for the scale of the change it is bringing about. By simplifying and enriching access to in-flight content, NDC is...

It's a fact: business travel in Europe has been growing steadily since 2021. According to GBTA1's latest Business Travel Index Outlook report, business travel expenditure in Europe grew faster in 2022 than in any other region of the world. This trend has continued through to 2023 and...

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...

With the expected growth of Ouigo, which will account for 30% of the SNCF's high-speed offer by 2027 compared with 20% today, the railway company is opening up the distribution of its low-cost offer to leisure and business travel agencies, abandoning its original principle of selling exclusively direct via the website...

"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...

NDC is gradually becoming a way of life for business travellers. Initiated by IATA in the early 2010s, New Distribution Capability (NDC) enables airlines to offer travel agencies and their corporate customers a wider range of content...

"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...

After decoding the travel habits of European professionals, BCD Travel crosses the Atlantic to focus on the US market. With the same question: which destinations are the most popular for business travel? This new study published by TMC confirms the dynamism of the transatlantic axis. In fact, just as...

One giant fades, another awakens... While CWT is set to merge into an ever-expanding Amex GBT entity, another player could well rise to the forefront of the business travel scene. On 2 April, Steve Singh made the acquisition of Direct Travel official. And the founder of Concur did not hesitate to...

A major coup in the world of business travel. The world's leading business travel agency, American Express Global Business Travel (GBT), is acquiring its competitor CWT and, potentially, its 4,000 customers. In other words, the coming together of two heavyweights in the world of business travel, but more generally in the world of travel...

The BCD Travel 2023 Cities & Trends Report was unveiled on 14 March. It takes stock of the habits of European business travellers, and in particular of the most popular business destinations last year. Amsterdam came out on top, ahead of two key business hubs: London and Frankfurt. Paris will have to...

The relationship between American Express Global Business Travel and the Expedia group began with a transaction. The sale of Egencia to TMC in 2021. Three years later, it has taken a completely different turn, based on a mutually beneficial cooperation that also and above all benefits business travellers. "We are...

While several major players in the mobility sector are slowing down or even backing away from the electric car, the latest study published by BCD Travel would seem to confirm their decision... If the business travel agency is to be believed, business travellers are still very reluctant to adopt this option. Of the 919 professionals...

After a 2023 marked by both the gradual return of business travel and widespread inflation, 2024 could be the year of stabilisation. This is the trend that emerges from the Air Monitor 2024 report published on Monday by American Express GBT: "In all regions, fluctuations in fares are expected to stabilise....

From 28 August to 8 September, some 4,400 international athletes will converge on France for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. In the run-up to this major event, American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) is making its contribution to inclusive mobility. On 4 December, Amex GBT unveiled a "new accessibility solution...

It's a trend that has already been identified for several months, and American Express GBT is shedding new light on it: the attitudes generated by the health crisis are prompting companies to bring their staff together more frequently. And the trend is set to continue next year, according to the "Global Meetings & Events Forecast...