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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...

Exactly 187 travel managers took part in the question and answer session with BCD Travel. 187 witnesses to the evolution of the profession, for better or for worse, one might be tempted to sum up. According to the results of the survey conducted by TMC, travel managers spend the majority of their time.... managing...

How did Amplitudes start and evolve? José Martinez - I set up Amplitudes in 1991, with virtually no resources, in the suburbs of Toulouse, and I quickly turned my attention to creating tailor-made trips, drawing on my own experience. Given the fairly high-end clientele interested in this offer, a...

Will we one day see a merger between the two mega-TMCs, American Express GBT and CWT? Nothing is less certain after reading the interim report published on 6 November by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). For several weeks now, the CMA has been examining the potential consequences...

While it waits to seal its union with American Express GBT, CWT is taking care of its technological dowry. And as it is now impossible to venture into this field without being confronted with AI, CWT is also announcing new functionalities powered by artificial intelligence, designed by ThoughtSpot. With ambitious promises in terms of reporting for...

When it comes to the environment, there's a lot of talk, good resolutions and sometimes greenwashing... and then there's the reality on the ground. Business travel is no exception. While all business travel players are more or less openly involved in eco-responsible initiatives, travellers remain... "pragmatic'. And when it comes to booking their flight,...

Navan has teamed up with Brex to combine the best of business travel and corporate cards, combining travel management, expense management and the corporate card programme through the integrated BrexPay solution for Navan. The scope of this partnership extends primarily to the United States, where Brex has 25...

Announced last March, the intention of American Express GBT (Amex GBT) to acquire its competitor CWT for 570 million dollars has not been a smooth ride. The merger of the world's No. 1 and No. 3 business travel agencies was bound to arouse the fears of the competition authorities, in particular the Competition Commission...

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...