Concur strengthens its position in risk management
Concur is launching two tools designed to improve risk management and communication with business travellers in crisis situations: Risk Messaging and Active Monitoring.
Sodexo acquires iAlbatros and Xpenditure
Sodexo has announced a merger with two specialists in business travel and expense management: the acquisition of iAlbatros and Xpenditure will provide the French group with new assets to boost its position in the world of business travel.
Egencia breaks new ground in Travel & Expense
At the recent Business Travel Show in London, Egencia presented three new tools dedicated to expense management: Open Sync, Open Connect and Travel & Expense.
Bleisure, salaries, destinations: business travel according to Booking.com
Booking.com Business has published an insightful study into the expectations of French business travellers. The survey confirms the growing importance of bleisure, establishes business travel as an HR argument and highlights the most dynamic business destinations.
Connected travel: the age of anticipation
New technological tools are helping business travellers to be more efficient and responsive. Slowly but surely, the world of business travel is catching up with consumer tools in terms of ergonomics and responsiveness.
Interview with : Aurélie Krau, Founder and TravelTech specialist, TravelThink
Founder of TravelThink and a TravelTech specialist, Aurélie Krau is also a partner at Festive Road. She is a regular speaker at events analysing the development of business travel from a connected angle, and here she analyses a sector undergoing major change for Voyages d'Affaires. Interview by Florian Guillemin
Partnership between DIMO Software and Traveldoo
DIMO Software's Notilus solution is to be integrated with Traveldoo's self-booking tool following a distribution agreement between the two travel and expense management specialists.
HRS launches its Multisource price comparator
HRS is introducing the Multisource solution into its reservation system to offer its customers the best prices.
Study: SME travel costs under the microscope
Have small businesses rationalised their business travel expenditure? What type of travel do they make, and how is it managed? Ticket Travel Pro has carried out a survey and produced an infographic.
CWT 3.0: the updated business travel agency
On Tuesday, CWT presented its vision of the Travel Management Company (TMC) of tomorrow. The business travel agency has set a new strategic course for 2018: "TMC 3.0" will be based on data, the development of the mobile application and the hotel offer.
AirPlus and Airbnb play the centralised payment card
Following in the footsteps of travel agencies, Airbnb is continuing to weave its web in the world of business travel. A centralised payment solution will be launched with AirPlus in 2017.
Voyages-SNCF goes after SMEs with V.Pro
Reconciling business and leisure travellers: this is essentially the credo of V.Pro, the new booking and service tool unveiled on 15 November by Voyages SNCF. In anticipation of a "business" section planned for early 2017.
Interview: Michel Dinh, CEO of Havas Voyages
The new Havas Voyages Connect tool will arrive on the business travel market on 15 December. Michel Dinh, CEO of Havas Voyages, explains the thinking behind this technological breakthrough, and shares his vision of the market.
Additional expenses: small extras and big stakes
After focusing mainly on air and hotel expenses, companies are now taking a closer look at all the other costs incurred during a business trip. Restaurants, taxis, telecommunications: almost everything remains to be done to regain control over these many 'extras'.
Suppliers: hotel groups vs Booking.com
Booking or not Booking? It seems that, for executives in small businesses - and even in large companies - the giant...
Hotel reservations: real solutions for real optimisation
Alongside travel agencies, hotel reservation platforms
have become key partners for companies as they seek to
their desire to control their accommodation budget. An area of expenditure
that is clearly being optimised.
Meet Cyril Kovarsky, Accorhotels General Manager of Global Sales
Cyril Kovarsky, Managing Director of Global Sales at AccorHotels, takes stock of the hotel group's evolving relationship with its business customers, from major accounts to SMEs and individual travellers.
Interview with : Ludovic Philippo, director of Sabre in France
Early next year, Sabre will roll out its new Sabre Red Workspace platform, a booking interface that uses predictive data and decision support tools to refine the travel agent's visibility. Ludovic Philippo, Director of Sabre in France, reviews the strengths of this new tool, and gives his analysis of the market. Interview with Ludovic Philippo.
The Amadeus ecosystem is enriched with Selling Platform Connect
It's now a tradition that's firmly established in the busy business travel calendar. As in previous years, ahead of the IFTM-Top Resa trade show, which...
Interface, payment : BizMeeting steps up a gear
The announcement of a fund-raising operation in June - a million euros, all the same - heralded some major changes at...
