Articles tagged “travel management companies”

Business Travel

American Airlines Hits Smaller Hubs With Steeper Airfares Through Legacy Channels

Erratic airfares will likely be a theme over the course of the year. The question is how damaging, reputationally speaking, will the settling down period be for American Airlines, compared to the financial gains — short or long term.

Matthew Parsons | 7 months ago

American Airlines Hits Smaller Hubs With Steeper Airfares Through Legacy Channels

Business Travel

Offices Find New Ways to Compete With Hotels For Remote Workers

Companies that went hybrid are now being urged to "reuse" their office spaces by renting them out to other remote workers. Here we go again.

Matthew Parsons | 8 months ago

Offices Find New Ways to Compete With Hotels For Remote Workers

Travel Technology

Sabre: Takeaways From Its Annual Financial Report

The way customers interact with Sabre is changing, and the company’s future depends on how it responds to those changes. Sabre in 10 years could look a lot different than Sabre today.

Justin Dawes | 9 months ago

Sabre: Takeaways From Its Annual Financial Report

Business Travel

FCM Travel Business Trip Sales Rise Everywhere — Except Asia

China's recovery is key for the corporate travel agency in many ways, but it all depends on how many businesses are ready to head back there.

Matthew Parsons | 9 months ago

FCM Travel Business Trip Sales Rise Everywhere — Except Asia

Business Travel

Corp Travel Group GlobalStar Fills Critical Gaps In Europe

The London-based consortium is in recruiting mode as rival travel agencies continue to buy up their own local experts.

Matthew Parsons | 1 year ago

Corp Travel Group GlobalStar Fills Critical Gaps In Europe

Business Travel

Corp Travel Agencies Need to Start Unbundling Services

If more companies plan on building travel programs using tech from a mix of agencies "like a Lego house," the larger agencies need to start accommodating that, delegates at the Global Business Travel Association's European conference heard.

Matthew Parsons | 1 year ago

Corp Travel Agencies Need to Start Unbundling Services

News Blog

TripActions Buys Spanish Travel Agency and Meetings Planner Atlanta

If you’d thought Silicon Valley’s TripActions was running out of steam as we head towards the year's end, after its acquisitions and extensive fundraising, think again. On Tuesday the corp travel startup announced its fourth acquisition in 18 months, buying Spain’s Atlanta Events & Corporate Travel Consultants. The rationale, according to the company, is because…

Matthew Parsons | 1 year ago

Business Travel

Behind the Dutch Government’s Arduous Bid to Wrest Back Its Travel Program

After a vendor price-gouging lawsuit, the government is moving away from legacy travel companies and instead stitching together its own program to better control costs and gain access to a wider range of airlines and hotels. It took awhile to get there.

Matthew Parsons | 1 year ago

Behind the Dutch Government’s Arduous Bid to Wrest Back Its Travel Program

Business Travel

Hotels Overload on Wellness in the Battle to Host Company Retreats

The sky's the limit for the hospitality sector, coming up with ideas like "togetherness programs" and offering increasingly bizarre spiritual and nature-based activities. But for how long will companies take the bait?

Matthew Parsons | 1 year ago

Hotels Overload on Wellness in the Battle to Host Company Retreats

Business Travel

TripActions Raises $300 Million, Quiet on Public Listing

Another financing top-up, which brings the funding round up to Series G. Is this a sign of an imminent IPO, or has the appetite cooled off?

Matthew Parsons | 1 year ago

TripActions Raises $300 Million, Quiet on Public Listing