TMC

In order to fine-tune its yield management system and adapt to more open rail competition on its most profitable lines, SNCF has been moving in successive stages since 26 September to a new booking platform to replace the ageing ResaRail system. Starting with BtoB reservations for...

Business travellers around the world are still paying more and more for their accommodation. While hotel rates have started to rise above 2019 levels fairly quickly, American Express GBT is forecasting a widespread increase for the coming year. Its Hotel Monitor 2024 report estimates the evolution of...

Trainline and Fairjungle are strengthening their partnership with the addition of services from the Swiss, Belgian and Dutch national railways. Through Trainline Partner Solutions, Trainline's BtoB division, the young TMC now benefits from SBB inventories and Benerail, the Belgian-Dutch platform founded in 2003 by SNCB and NS....

How is Navan doing in the French market? Zahir Abdelouhab - Navan France currently employs around fifty people in Paris. However, we also have customers in the provinces and in Monaco. And we regularly have to travel to meet local needs. What is the profile of your customers, and...

By the summer of 2023, CWT will have joined the WhatsApp 'business travel' group. A community that includes the likes of Air France and Amex GBT. That's almost three and a half years after the launch of CWT's messaging service. The famous channel has been added to an offering that already includes the myCWT app,...

The trend will not have escaped the attention of French businesses: 2022 will have been a year of high car hire costs, to say the least. The Ground Monitor report published by American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) confirms this surge in prices. The price study even estimates the increase in car hire prices at +15.4 %....

For many business travellers, the expense claim is still the most daunting stage of a business trip. However, publishers, agencies and all those involved in business travel are investing to ensure a smoother - and above all less time-consuming - experience, with a view to simplifying the reimbursement of travel expenses. To measure the gap...

According to FCM, the world of business travel is returning to the habits it had before the health crisis, with flight frequencies picking up again and hotel occupancy rates approaching the norm. The business travel agency recently published its Global Trends Report, which summarises...

The aim of the new agreement unveiled by CWT on 11 May is to combine the flexibility of Booking with the service of a global TMC. The business travel agency has joined forces with the business travel arm of the platform, Booking.com for Business, to enhance hotel bookings with a duty of care component. The launch of this...

Coincidentally, just two days after an equivalent announcement by American Express Meetings & Events, its competitor CWT is now using its 'metre' trump card on the sustainability issue. On 20 April, CWT Meetings & Events announced the launch of a new carbon footprint calculator dedicated...

How do you feel about the EVP 2023 barometer published this week by Amex GBT? Yorick Charveriat - I see the positive side, because we can feel that business is picking up again. Admittedly, we are not at 2019 levels, but we can rely on a solid recovery. There are many...

Every year, it's a good opportunity to look back over the past few months and consider what the near future might hold for business travel: on Wednesday, American Express GBT organised the 32nd EVP 2023 in Paris. At the same time, it unveiled the results of its Business Travel Barometer. Among the many elements deciphered...

American Express GBT is to overhaul the tools it uses to calculate carbon emissions for its customers. The business travel agency will now be adopting the technology developed by CHOOOSE. This will be integrated into the Neo booking tool. The aim is to gain greater precision and legitimacy, so as to have a greater influence on the choices made by business travellers and the...

Were you surprised by the results of the Air monitor report and its fare forecasts for 2023? Adrien Cannes - The increases in air fares that we have seen this year, particularly over the last five or six months when the recovery has been stronger, were mainly due to a confluence of factors...

Faced with rising fares in the business travel sector, players are trying to get organised. This is particularly true in the air travel sector, where significant increases are expected on a number of strategic business travel routes, as illustrated by the recent Air Monitor 2023 report published by Amex GBT. Its competitor has now...

The "Wellbeing Dashboard" developed by Egencia has been available since December 7th, for all Egencia and American Express GBT clients. It joins and completes the suite of tools linked to sustainable development offered by both Egencia Consulting and American Express Global Business Consulting. And we have to say...

On Thursday, American Express GBT unveiled the results of its Air Monitor 2023. In this annual report, which focuses on the fare trends to be expected over the next twelve months, the TMC is betting on a widespread increase in prices. It's a gamble that can't really be described as daring in the current climate, but it's one that...

Reed & Mackay is banking heavily on the Middle East, and the United Arab Emirates in particular. The business travel agency already opened an office in Dubai in spring 2016. It has now officially set up in Abu Dhabi, more specifically in Masdar City, the eco-city project that is taking shape next to the international airport....

Driven largely by leisure travellers this summer, but also by the upturn in international business travel, the third quarter of 2022 saw hotel groups and airlines report a cascade of excellent results. The figures recently published by American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) give a clearer idea of how the...

Already long-standing partners, business travel agency BCD Travel and GDS Sabre intend to jointly accelerate their technological evolution through joint investment in the development of innovative solutions. "Today marks a new milestone in our partnership, as we mutually commit to contributing to the technological evolution of...