{"id":210415,"date":"2025-10-30T11:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=210415"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:27:14","slug":"bcd-travel-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/bcd-travel-buyers","title":{"rendered":"AI, cost management, contracts: travel buyers surveyed by BCD Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\"Economy\" is - unsurprisingly - the watchword of the travel buyers surveyed by BCD Travel in the latest study published by the TMC. Of the 132 professionals questioned by the travel agency, almost 90 % gave cost savings priority as their main concern when it came to managing and sourcing suppliers. This priority therefore comes well ahead of data collection (38 %), compliance control (36 %) and supplier consolidation (31 %). And not surprisingly, travel buyers are also eyeing up the potential of artificial intelligence. AI could be called upon to respond to the need to reduce the amount of work, a priority cited by a quarter of those surveyed.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dr.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dr.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dr-300x168-derived.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dr-18x10-derived.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-varenne-link-block\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/bcd-business-hotel-travel-policy\/\" data-id=\"204775\">Travel policy and business hotels: BCD takes stock<\/a><\/p><\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p>According to data gathered by BCD, just 15 % of buyers currently use AI. 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