TRAVEL MANAGEMENT

Carlson Wagonlit Travel has published a study on the feeling of insecurity among business travellers. According to TMC, European professionals are less worried than their American and Asian counterparts.

The traditional ranking of the most advantageous passports for travelling around the world has just been updated. Singapore has overtaken Germany as the country with the easiest international travel.

Karim Jouini is CEO and founder of the start-up Expensya. This web and mobile platform dedicated to managing business expenses has made a name for itself by becoming the first tool in France to be approved for legal-value storage. Interview.

Having worked on reservations to improve control over rates, companies are now turning their attention to the automated management of expense claims. The aim is to save employees time while reducing the cost of processing invoices.

On Thursday, Concur presented the results of a study into the management of expense claims, highlighting the new ExpenseIt functionality and the new legal framework surrounding paperless expense management.

Voyages-sncf.com is further strengthening its digital offering for the business travel segment with the "V-Pro Entreprises" service, an extension of the V-Pro tool designed for Travel Managers.

On Tuesday, Egencia inaugurated its new customer service centre in Marseille, ten years after its arrival in the city. It's a reminder that the business travel agency isn't just banking on new technologies, but also on people.

BCD Travel has just acquired the Polish travel agency Air Club Travel, its local partner for almost twelve years.

Business travellers take pride in their business trips, which can make it easier to attract talent to a company. This is the conclusion drawn by American Express in a study carried out with YouGov.

AccorHotels has signed an agreement to acquire Gekko, a major player in hotel reservations in the business customer segment.

MagicStay took advantage of the IFTM Top Resa to make two high-profile partnerships official. The flat booking platform has joined forces with business travel agency Havas Voyages and payment solutions specialist AirPlus.

On Tuesday, Uvet France unveiled its new website, pending the arrival of a new online booking tool, "BizTravel", expected in January. The business travel agency is also working on expense management.

This year, Visa launched the Visa CTA dematerialised payment solution with BNP Paribas. This solution is combined with the Intellilink Spend Management platform for improved expense tracking.

ATPI is launching a new solution for travel managers: an all-in-one dashboard called ATPI TravelHub.

CWT Meetings & Events (CWT M&E) has published its pricing analysis dedicated to corporate meetings and events, marked by a widespread increase in rates in 2017. The trend is set to continue next year, according to TMC's events division.

In a survey published by the Business Travel Summit Amsterdam - a new event dedicated to business travel - Travel Managers say they are concerned about the security of business travel in Europe.

MagicStay surveyed some 600 business travellers from France, the UK and Germany. The aim was to find out how they felt about security during their business trips.

Will the European Union's new rules on interchange rates reshape the way corporate payment solutions are organised? It probably will. And above all, it could only accelerate the move towards centralisation around stored-value and virtual cards.

Carlson Wagonlit Travel has just published the CWT Connected Traveler Study. Unsurprisingly, the business travel agency draws a clear link between connectivity and productivity for professionals on the move.

BCD Travel's TripSource application now includes travel alerts to improve the safety of business travellers.