Travel management tools

Ticket for train or plane, hotel, taxi Online booking has never seemed so simple. But organising a business trip involves certain rules, including those of the travel policy. Choosing your SBT (Self Booking Tool) and its Travel & Expense tool for expense reports This is a must for travel managers if they want to keep control of their travel budget. Not to mention payment solutions that allow companies to control it (see more)

Next to the corporate card which provides travellers with the means to meet their day-to-day expenses, the card housed and the virtual card are helping to dematerialise and centralise payments. For better data feedback.

TripActions well-being

TripActions launches a dashboard dedicated to the well-being of business travellers

TripActions launched a new tool on 18 May: a dashboard designed to help travel managers and human resources better monitor the well-being of business travellers as business travel picks up.

Univ'Airplus 2022: an event to reflect on the challenges of CSR

"Do you have to choose between travelling and doing something for the planet? The theme of the 16th edition of Univ'AirPlus, to be held on 8 September at the Jardin d'Acclimatation, is a key concern for companies.
Pierre-François Brézès, Managing Director France of American Express, talks about the many initiatives taken by his group to help businesses reduce their carbon footprint.

P.-F. Brézès (American Express): "Dashboards to measure our carbon footprint".

Recycled plastic cards, dashboards to better measure the carbon footprint of business travel: Pierre-François Brézès, Managing Director and Vice President France, Belgium and Luxembourg, Global Commercial Services at American Express, looks back at the initiatives recently announced by his group.
American-Express is converting a large proportion of its corporate card range to recycled plastic.

American Express: recycled plastic cards, more detailed sustainable reporting

As part of its commitment to "net zero emissions", American Express is helping companies to reduce their carbon footprint through recycled plastic cards and a comprehensive dashboard showing carbon emissions by category of expenditure.
Announcement of the partnership between CDS Groupe and Amadeus Value Hotels.

CDS Groupe distributes Amadeus Value Hotels content

CDS Groupe's customer agencies can now access the content of the Amadeus Value Hotels aggregator, with 500,000 establishments worldwide, all at attractive prepaid rates.
Lufthansa Hubli

Meetings, travel: Lufthansa steps up a gear with TripActions and Hubli

Lufthansa is launching two new business travel platforms: BusinessToGo, developed with TripActions for SMEs, and Lufthansa Global Spaces, designed with Hubli and covering meeting rooms and hotel bookings for groups.
DR Stéphane Laure

CDS Groupe acquires Rydoo's travel business

CDS has announced the acquisition of Rydoo's Travel business, which will now focus on Expense.
Amadeus

Cytric goes Easy mode with Amadeus and Microsoft

Cytric, the business travel management tool developed by Amadeus, is now integrated with Microsoft under the name Cytric Easy.
AirPlus makes all its Company Accounts carbon neutral.

AirPlus: moving towards carbon neutrality for its solutions worldwide

Corporate payments specialist AirPlus is extending the carbon neutrality of its AirPlus Company Accounts solution worldwide.
TravelPerk

Carbon footprint: a new measurement tool from TravelPerk

On 2 March, TravelPerk unveiled a new API called GreenPerk, designed to help business travellers measure - and then reduce - the carbon footprint associated with business travel.
Arnaud Bernet, Key Account Sales Director France for American Express Cartes.

Travel and general expenses, Amazon, CSR: interview with Arnaud Bernet (American Express)

Arnaud Bernet, Key Account Sales Director for France at American Express Cartes, reviews the latest news from his group, including a resurgence in business travel, changes to payment solutions, a co-branded card with Amazon Business France, a long-standing partnership with Air France and CSR.
Expensya is launching a range of MasterCard payment cards.

Expensya adds payment cards to its range of solutions

Expensya is strengthening its expense management solution with a new range of Mastercard instant debit payment cards, both virtual and physical.
Jenji

Takeover, open booking, scooters: lessons from the Jenji index

The second edition of the Jenji index, based on a study of expense reports on the French market in the second half of 2021, points to an upturn in business travel. It also points to a number of underlying trends that could well continue in the long term.
BCD Pay

Travel & Expense: BCD surveys travel managers

Ahead of the launch of BCD Pay, business travel agency BCD Travel has published a study on corporate travel expenditure management habits.
Oliver Wagner, CEO of AirPlus.

Business, payment, innovation: interview with Oliver Wagner (AirPlus)

Oliver Wagner, CEO of AirPlus, was in Paris to answer some questions from Voyages d'Affaires about the upturn in business travel and the return of activity to appreciable levels, the growth of digital payment, the development of the corporate card, and whether or not Lufthansa is considering selling the company.
American Express GBT

Neo comes to the Amex GBT Mobile app

The American Express GBT application now also covers expense reports. The TMC has just integrated Neo into its mobile tool, and is launching a new "Green Compass" service to help companies reconcile business travel with a reduction in carbon emissions.
ShareGroop

Interview with : Quentin Arnoult, Marketing Director, ShareGroop

Founded in 2015, ShareGroop is a young French start-up offering flexible payment solutions for the purchase of services, mainly in the tourism and transport sectors. A few explanations on the role ShareGroop plays and the possibilities for using this payment solution from Quentin Arnoult, Marketing Director.
Ziad Minkara, CEO of S4BT, the holding company behind the acquisitions made by CDS in recent years.

Recovery, adaptation, outlook: interview with Ziad Minkara (CDS Groupe)

For Ziad Minkara, the role of a hotel booking tool in the business travel ecosystem has been strengthened. An upturn, growth in the customer portfolio despite the crisis, and adapting to changes in the market: here's an overview from the CEO of CDS Groupe.
Concur

Concur-VoyagExpert merger: interview with Sébastien Delannoy, SAP Concur

SAP Concur and VoyagExpert, who have already formed an alliance for business travel booking, are now extending their partnership to include expense reports. Sébastien Delannoy, Senior Director Business Development Northern Europe at SAP Concur, provides an update on this new agreement and on developments in the market.
Expensya

Expensya integrates with TravelPerk

On Tuesday, Expensya announced its integration into the TravelPerk offering, for all-in-one management of business travel.