With Live Travel Space, Amadeus prepares the distribution of tomorrow
At the traditional meeting organised prior to the Top Résa event, the Amadeus teams presented a new tool, Amadeus Travel Platform, which is intended to embody the positioning of the technology giant, called "Live Travel Space".
Dayuse: hotel rooms by the day for business travellers
The world leader in daily hotel room reservations, Dayuse is extending its offer to business travel in partnership with CDS.
New turnkey offer from American Express GBT
"All business travel, quite simply" is the name of the new business travel offer unveiled on 17 September by American Express GBT (Global Business Travel): a simplified solution, aimed in particular at SMEs.
Uber joins the Rydoo ecosystem
On 10 September, Uber and Rydoo formalised an international partnership, enabling the Sodexo Group's new business travel solution to simplify the "T&E" management of the costs associated with these VTC bookings.
Payment solutions: the new deal
Having all the cards in hand to cover the entire travel budget: companies are offered a very wide range of solutions by the corporate payment players, from the classic corporate card to the virtual card and even the hosted card.
TripSourceGo: BCD Travel takes on airline ticket sales
Travel management agency BCD Travel is launching TripSourceGo, a solution that complements its hotel reservation service with the possibility of purchasing airline tickets.
Travelport uses IBM AI to optimise travel expenditure
Travelport has used Watson, IBM's Artificial Intelligence (AI) system, to develop an advisory and predictive analysis tool for managing business travel expenditure.
With Analytics Studio, Egencia aims to change the way people look at data
The new Egencia Analytics Studio tool presented by the business travel agency on 13 August is designed to give Travel Managers greater visibility of data relating to the travel programme, in order to optimise management.
CWT launches Travel Consolidator
CWT (Carlson Wagonlit Travel) has just launched a new tool for Travel Managers, called Travel Consolidator. Its mission: to identify the hidden costs of business travel.
Patrick Diemer, CEO of AirPlus: "We are launching a simple pan-European corporate card...
AirPlus is now adding a corporate card to its paperless payment solutions,
available in 19 European countries. Patrick Diemer, CEO of this key player in the payment of travel expenses
explains the reasons for this launch and the advantages of this new product.
Study: Expense reports decoded by Expensya and Chrome River
Two studies published in the United States by Chrome River and in France by Expensya decipher business travellers' expense reports to quantify fraud and identify major consumer trends.
AirPlus launches a pan-European corporate card in September
AirPlus is adding a corporate card to its paperless payment solutions, which will be offered in 19 European countries. The first issues will take place in France from 24 September.
Sodexo asserts its position in business travel with Rydoo
Just over a year after the acquisition of iAlbatros and Xpenditure, Sodexo is clarifying its ambitions in the business travel market with the launch of Rydoo. The new entity intends to "cut ties" with traditional business travel players by offering a comprehensive tool for managing business travel and expense reports.
Egencia study: SMEs want to do what the "big boys" do
Egencia is aiming to attract more small and medium-sized companies. In fact, the corporate travel agency has devoted a study to them, highlighting their appetite for solutions that enable them to make savings, in the same way as key accounts.
An anti-fraud corporate card at Société Générale
Secure online payments, card made virtually unusable in the event of fraud: Société Générale is launching a dynamic cryptogram card for company employees.
Interview with : Stéphane Donders, CEO of Traveldoo
Stéphane Donders, CEO of Traveldoo, looks back at the latest advances made by the publisher specialising in business travel and expense management. He also gives his analysis of the rapidly changing travel market.
Direct savings thanks to virtual payment according to HRS
A study by hotel reservation platform HRS shows that virtual payment solutions reduce the direct cost of hotel expenditure through earlier bookings and greater use of independent establishments.
Egencia simplifies airline ticket changes
Egencia now offers online ticket exchange after booking to give business travellers greater autonomy.
From Notilus to Xpenditure, the expense report is on the move
The "Travel & Expense" offering is evolving. Notilus recently announced the launch of two new services: intelligent character recognition (OCR) and archiving with evidential value. At the same time, Sodexo made official the deployment of Xpenditure on the French market, which will be integrated into a global business travel solution, scheduled for spring 2018.
SMEs on the lookout for new business travel tools
Opportunistic small and medium-sized businesses are not hesitating to turn to the new players in the business travel sector and their innovative solutions, in order to find the best value for money for their business trips. All that remains is to identify the right partner to keep one eye on spending and the other on traveller comfort...
