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It is in this very special context that FCM Travel has just announced the launch of a Meetings & Events department dedicated to the French market. The business travel agency has set up a team of five employees, based in Paris. This new department, called FCM France Meetings and Events, is designed to offer a local service, tailored to...

Admittedly, this is not the time for all-out bookings in the business travel sector... But it is also important to prepare for the future, and CWT has therefore been working to improve the booking experience for its travellers. The business travel agency has been working on this issue, adopting a multi-pronged approach. Clearly, professionals...

Ventura Spa, which celebrated its 40th anniversary three years ago, is about to write a new page in its history. BCD Travel made it official on 4 February: TMC is buying out its Italian partner, with whom it has had close links since 2006, and creating a new entity, BCD Travel Italy. This new entity will retain...

Already a "trusted partner" of American Express GBT for several years, Kanoo Travel is to play a new role in TMC's strategy in this strategic market. The directors of the business travel agency have just announced plans for a joint venture, due to be completed in the fourth quarter of this year or early in the first quarter...

Egencia took advantage of the Business Travel Show, held in London on 20 and 21 February, to unveil some of its new features. Among them, the "Egencia Hotel Conversations" tool is designed to facilitate direct dialogue between business travellers and their establishments. The managers of the business travel agency are quick to point out that this is "the first time that Egencia has...

BCD Travel will be testing reservations using the New Distribution Capability (NDC) standard in partnership with the Lufthansa Group, parent company of the German airline as well as Austrian Airlines, Swiss and Brussels Airlines. This new distribution standard created by IATA is based on the use of XML technology to facilitate the exchange of information between airlines...

At the ACTE Global Summit, held in Paris from 14 to 16 October, American Express GBT took a closer look at one of the most crucial issues facing the airline industry today: NDC. Behind these three letters lies a new distribution standard ("New Distribution Capability") and above all a concept that is still unclear to many companies....

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,...

Following on from RouteHappy, which was added to TripNavigator's air travel catalogue at the end of 2015, Egencia is now tackling urban transport to provide better support for business travellers. The business travel agency took advantage of the Business Travel Show held on 24 and 25 February in London to unveil the aggregation of two new well-known content...

On 17 June, Egencia is celebrating a house-warming party of strategic importance in Courbevoie. Not that the move was particularly far away - just a few hundred metres separate the Aegean Tower from the former premises of the Franklin Tower - but the group's new address in the Paris region claims a prestigious status,...